GOP Candidates On Climate - Rudy Warns Against Moving At A "Hysterical Pace", More - WP

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While Democrats are working to outdo each other on climate change -- New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, for example, supports a 90 percent greenhouse gas reduction by midcentury -- GOP presidential candidates remain more skeptical, to say the least. Former senator Fred D. Thompson (Tenn.) stands by his commentary on National Review Online that warming on other planets has led some people "to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their air-conditioning at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle."

Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said in the wake of Gore's Nobel Prize win that when it comes to global warming, "if we try to deal with it at too hysterical a pace, we could create problems."

Among Republicans, only Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) -- who began crusading against climate change after a heckler dressed as a penguin followed him around New Hampshire during his 2000 presidential bid -- backs a specific, 60 percent cut in greenhouse gases by 2050. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee endorsed a mandatory carbon cap last month but has not laid out specifics.

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Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), who has just co-written a book on the environment called "A Contract With the Earth," said either party could face serious consequences if they mishandle the question of climate change. A Democrat running on "litigation and regulation" could alienate voters, he said in an interview. "You can just calculate the costs," Gingrich said. "Then, Republican candidates are on the opposite extreme," he added. "A candidate who's anti-environment and denies global warming gets killed in the suburbs."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/05/AR2007110502106.html

Gingrich - still the same shallow, calculating son-of-a-bitch he's always been.

Like towards Iran?
These repukes are crazy as bedbugs.

Wrong again, Newtie. He gets us ALL killed.

along the lines of "Because when Republicans hear global warming, we think big government and higher taxes ..."?

"Can we really afford for Republicans to be wrong on Global Climate Change?"

The real question is, "Can we really afford for anyone to be wrong on 'Global Climate Change?'"

to be wrong ...