Global Warming?

[/pine]

Romney is a typical politician trying to appease everyone. I notice the economy in Rhode Island is the worst in New England; keep on voting Democrat down there.

Actually he is a candidate in a political election... but he's not a politician in any sense of the word when compared to his opposition...granted he has held a political office but that does not make him a "politician"...unlike his counterpart who has never done anything in his career that was not politically motivated...including everything he's done as POTUS...

 

[lockhaven]

I always thought that Rhode Island was part of New England ditto on what /pine said

 

[jefwyn]

Actually he is a candidate in a political election... but he's not a politician in any sense of the word when compared to his opposition...granted he has held a political office but that does not make him a "politician"...unlike his counterpart who has never done anything in his career that was not politically motivated...including everything he's done as POTUS...

1994 ran for senate in Mass.
2002 ran for gov. of Mass
2003-2007 served as gov of Mass
2008 ran for Pres. of U.S.
2012 ran for Pres. of U.S.
No, he is not a politician at all!

 

[/pine]

1994 ran for senate in Mass.
2002 ran for gov. of Mass
2003-2007 served as gov of Mass
2008 ran for Pres. of U.S.
2012 ran for Pres. of U.S.
No, he is not a politician at all!

by definition that is correct...

 

[IslandTractor]

Why are we arguing whether Romney is a politician? Who cares? He's running for political office for the fourth time and has had no other job than politics in the past decade but if you want to consider him a retired vulture capitalist instead that's fine.

Did the cat get your tongues or do you not have any comment on his statement that he believes in AGW?

 

[IslandTractor]

Why are we arguing whether Romney is a politician? Who cares? He's running for political office for the fourth time and has had no other job than politics in the past decade but if you want to consider him a retired vulture capitalist instead that's fine.

Did the cat get your tongues or do you not have any comment on his statement that he believes in AGW?

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Why are we arguing whether Romney is a politician? Who cares? He's running for political office for the fourth time and has had no other job than politics in the past decade but if you want to consider him a retired vulture capitalist instead that's fine.

Did the cat get your tongues or do you not have any comment on his statement that he believes in AGW?

If this article is any indication, his committal is a bit half-hearted, but it is there nonetheless. I can't say that my own personal opinion is too far removed from his...however, the most important aspect in my mind is the import you give to AGW and the remedy, if any, that one believes is necessary based on what we know for sure and what we believe. I do not condemn equivocation, especially with this subject.

PolitiFact | On Mitt Romney and whether humans are causing climate change

 

[IslandTractor]

If this article is any indication, his committal is a bit half-hearted, but it is there nonetheless. I can't say that my own personal opinion is too far removed from his...however, the most important aspect in my mind is the import you give to AGW and the remedy, if any, that one believes is necessary based on what we know for sure and what we believe. I do not condemn equivocation, especially with this subject.

PolitiFact | On Mitt Romney and whether humans are causing climate change

I don't disagree with his general statement that AGW is real but we don't know the extent to which practical changes in human activity can modify the effect (or something like that). That is a cautiously couched position but defensible from a healthy skeptical position that the science is not complete. It does leave open what practical matters of policy he would pursue given the need to make some important decisions before anyone thinks the science on the matter is finalized. The main point is he is not a denier and that this is one of the few topics he has not flip flopped on during the course of this campaign and his political career. The bottom line is that it means whoever is elected in November the deniers are going to be disappointed. It also makes reasonably clear that AGW is a mainstream belief of the public as determined by Romney's pollsters or else Gumby would have flipped his position on this as well. Maybe the American people, left, right and center, are just all gullible.

 

[/pine]

Why are we arguing whether Romney is a politician? Who cares? He's running for political office for the fourth time and has had no other job than politics in the past decade but if you want to consider him a retired vulture capitalist instead that's fine.

Did the cat get your tongues or do you not have any comment on his statement that he believes in AGW?

The only thing that makes the issue an argument is your ignorance...:laughing:

 

[IslandTractor]

Just don't become what Marx called a useful idiot. I don't know how long you have been looking at the global warming issue but CO2 has been proven not to be a warming gas. In fact the study of atmospheric gas may not even be the science to be studied to understand global climate changes. You seem to come across as educated on the subject but repeating old CO2 stuff that has been long ago debunked and discussed here makes me think you just joined the uniformed or mislead, so go somewhere else if CO2 is what you want to show as some proof global climate change. When you understand who the global warming people are and their agenda and understand who's slogan is Forward you must understand a red-light comes on when some self proclaimed educated elitist starts with Science moves Forward scattered though their posts.

HS

First I would point out that you were the one who brought up the false statement that volcanoes produce many many times the CO2 output of human activity. Wrong, it is the other way around. I think I gave a reference for that earlier. Second, though you don't reference any of your assertions on either volcanoes or that CO2 is not a warming gas I thought you and others might like to move the debate forward by reading what the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (the Manhattan Project guys) has to say on the matter of CO2 as a warming gas: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) - Frequently Asked Questions

Please enlighten us with references for your positions from scientific sources other than tabloid newspapers or political blogs.