Huckabee And Thompson: Global Warming Overblown
Posted by Michael Link on December 11, 2007 at 04:51 PM
ThinkProgress has the story:
Tonight on CBS Evening News, each of the 10 leading presidential candidates will be asked, “Do you think the risks of climate change are at all overblown?” According to an advance transcript, every single candidate acknowledges the threat — except Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson.Huckabee responds that “scientifically,” he doesn’t know whether global warming is “overblown.” Thompson goes a step further, claiming that the “state of entitlements” and “extremists” who “want to do drastic things to our economy” are the real problems:
ThinkProgress details why they're wrong. But just to add some items for the other candidates:
- At his first major fundraiser, Rudy Giuliani's emcee, Dennis Miller, mocked global warming, saying, "Excuse me for not believing temperatures from 1906, when we were still s-ing in the woods."
- In a statement, Mitt Romney once criticized Republicans for "embracing the radical environmental ideas of the liberal left."
