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Unlike Gingrich and Romney, Santorum says he’s never supported the global warming ‘hoax’

Feb. 7, 2012 3:29pm Christopher Santarelli

Rick Santorum has hammered his opponents on the debate stage for their past support of policy addressing global warming, and is now calling out Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney on the campaign trail for believing what he calls a hoax.

POLITICO‘s Juana Summers reports that Santorum told supporters in Colorado Springs Tuesday that Romney and Gingrich would fail against President Barack Obama in the general election because of their views on cap and trade.

“‘Let’s go to cap and trade. Governor Romney proudly announced that they were the first state, Massachusetts, to put a cap on CO2 emissions in the state of Massachusetts,’ Santorum told more than 100 supporters here.

Santorum also dinged Gingrich for filming a climate change ad with Nancy Pelosi, something Gingrich – as recently as yesterday – has admitted was a mistake. Both Gingrich and Santorum appeared at a Colorado energy conference on Monday.

‘Speaker Gingrich has supported cap and trade for more than a dozen years. Now, he wants business incentives to go along with cap and trade, but he supported cap and trade, and sat on the couch with Nancy Pelosi and said that global warming had to be addressed by Congress,’ Santorum said. ‘Who is he or who’s Governor Romney to be able to go after President Obama? I’ve never supported even the hoax of global warming.’

Romney and Gingrich, Santorum said, ‘bought into the science of man-made global warming, and they bought into the remedy, both of which are bogus.’”

ABC News reports that Santorum used similar language during an address at the 2012 Colorado Energy Summit:

“’I for one never bought the hoax,’ Santorum said. ‘I for one understood just from science, there are 100 factors that influence the climate, to suggest one minor factor of which man’s contribution is a minor factor … is the determining ingredient in the sauce that affects the entire global warming and cooling is just absurd on its face. And yet we have politicians running to the ramparts, unfortunately politicians that happen to be running for the Republican nomination of the president who buy into manmade global and bought into cap and trade. Congressman Gingrich and Gov. Romney both supported the idea of manmade global warming and in fact cap and trade; I never did. And unless the science is such that it is a heck of a lot better than what we see today, I won’t.”

While the ad was originally released in 2008, the image of Newt Gingrich siting on a couch in front of the capitol with Nancy Pelosi advocating policy to address climate change seems to be seared into our minds from its replay on cable news and within attack ads released by the former Speaker’s 2012 opponents. Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune wrote a good blog post Thursday aggregating Mitt Romney’s contradictory position(s) on global warming during this campaign alone.

It’s worth asking though, whether or not you believe in global warming, if past support of cap and trade or other green issues will fail in the general election as miserably as Santorum predicts.

A 2011 Gallup poll did indicate that less Americans view global warming as a threat when compared to 2008, but a separate Rasmussen Report released this past January showed that the number of voters who believe global warming is a serious problem is at its highest level in two and a half years.

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SychinLegacy
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 7:24pm
But he sure was quick to support the patriot act. Oh and no child left behind. Oh and medicare part D. Yeah he sure embodies a “small government conservative” right?

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markinhawaii
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 7:10pm
He said sha said, guys quit getting your panties in a wad over who called who a what !!!

I’ll say it again, state what you will do, how you will fix it, how you propose to do something and leave the other candidate out of it. if you absolutely have to throw a dart jab at some one make that dumb ass in the white house… Oh wait let me be more specific since there are so many, Make it to Obumer and and his failed policies.
Be the bigger man and leave the others to explain their own Ideas and let us, the American people decide for ourselves.
the Focus has been lost, the main focus is…. get rid of the Turd in chief that’s there now !!

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Wayner
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 6:57pm
From 1900 to 1997 the earth’s temperature rose 1 degree… The temperature also rose on Mars, Pluto and the moon Triton. The earth has been going through a cooling period for the last 8 years… The whole global warming scare is a hoax to scare people into thinking a catastrohe is coming if we don’t act…. The earth and those planets temperatures rose during those years because of sunspot activity… We can’t control the sun…. only God can do that.

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- MrObvious
  Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:08pm
  Theoretically we could control the sun, someday; but, that day is not today.
  
  The majority of CO2 in the air (all 390 parts per million of it) was released from volcanoes, melting ice and wildlife (of all shapes, sizes and habitats).
  
  Plants and trees grow bigger and better when more CO2 is in the air, and when it’s warmer.
  Animals tend to reproduce more when food is plentiful (and when it’s warmer), and wind up producing even more CO2, over all, than the plants produce O2.
  
  The whole thing is a solar dependent cycle, except for the volcanoes, which are more random – still dependent on solar activity somewhat; but, not as easily tied to it as temperatures and other factors.
  
  Our small contribution of between .01% and 10%, depending on who’s numbers one uses, (between 0.39 and 39 parts per million) doesn’t even make a dent.
  
  CO2 (the dreaded carbon dioxide) and O2 (oxygen) have nearly the same heat absorption specs.
  about 21% of air is O2 (that’s 210,000 parts per million, or over 538 times more than CO2).
  
  Hoax is an understatement. What’s been foist on the world is nothing short of a flimflam.
  
  Even Cap & Trade advocates admit that over the next hundred years, their plan won’t effect levels in any meaningful way. It’s a paper pushing MLM, with stock ticker boards and nothing real behind it.
  
  Al Gore and others have made $billions off of the EU – who’ve already bought into this scam.
  
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blondenblueeyed
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:47pm
Mr Santorum, NEWFLASH. My husband is originally from Pennsylvania and we were some of your biggest supporters. However we will be voting for another candidate. WHY??? because you espouse peace and getting along (comments YOU made during the last debate) then you go right to the throats of Gingrich and Romney and complain, attack, complain, attack, etc. WE ARE SICK OF IT!!!
Obama is the one you need to focus on NOT the other GOP candidates. SHUT UP you weenie, go home and sip your sour grapes. If you can’t be trusted to keep your word in the GOP debates then how can we trust you as POTUS? We can’t…plain and simple.

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