Huckabee And Thompson: Global Warming Is ‘Overblown’

[brooklynite]

Source: Think Progress

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:

THOMPSON: There are a lot of unanswered questions. We don’t know to the extent this is a cyclical thing. This may or may not effect very much. The extremists are the ones who want to do drastic things to our economy before we have more answers as to how much good we can do and whether people in the other parts of the world are going to contribute. It’s the fact that our entitlements are bankrupting the next generation. We’re spending the money of those yet to be born and we can’t continue that way.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/11/thompson-global-warming/

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Huckabee apparently doesn't know about a lot of things...

[AX10]

1. The climate change denial candidates (Republicans, of course)...

are appealing to their Holocaust denying base (the Fundies).

[ixion]

2. why the hell can't journalists ask a bias neutral question?

rather than one that is most obviously biased. :grr:

[sentelle]

6. How rude!

How dare you call Katie Couric a Journalist.

Thats like calling * a President.
or
Thats like calling William Shatner a lawyer.

[ixion]

9. yeah, my bad... although

there are more like her than vice versa, unfortunately.

[LoZoccolo]

3. Oh, but there's no difference between the Republicans and Democrats. n/t

[Jacobin]

4. Thus, the problem with idiots who think the world is 6,846 years old

:headbang:

[Faygo Kid]

8. Yes, and their greatest scientist is Rush Limbaugh and greatest theologian is Ann Coulter

Republicans make me sick. There used to be some intelligent ones running around; moderate Republicans with whom you could respectfully disagree.

Now they are nothing but a bunch of nuts who take their marching orders from Karl Rove and his allies through the likes of Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Beck, Coulter and everyone at Fox News.

Sickening.

Gratuitous Rockettes Christmas picture follows to lighten the mood.

[CanonRay]

14. It makes it hard to have 10,000 year weather cycles.

[Lisa]

5. so making the economy more energy-efficient and innovative is "extremist"

I'm just grateful that these guys weren't in charge during the development of modern telecommunications -- or computers, for that matter. We'd still be using semaphore flags and abacuses.

[Frisbee]

7. It's a good thing...

It's a good thing we have plenty of time to figure this out.... NOT!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/12/11/arctic.melt.ap/index.html

[and-justice-for-all]

10. Huckabee is a fundamentalist...

so of course he is'nt going to know jack shit.

[Sabriel]

11. I believe New Orleans was "overblown."

Of course, that's my unscientific opinion.

[Lorien]

12. Boneheads don't read the news, do they?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071211/ap_on_sc/arctic_melt

[Orsino]

13. They lack the courage even to whore unequivocally. n/t

[olddad56]

15. These Christains are always telling us we are going to hell....

They never told us that they were bring Hell to us.

[donkeyotay]

17. LOL. Duzy award! nt

[wishlist]

16. Their hopes to be taken seriously as candidates are 'overblown' n/t