#1Jun 10th, 2011
"I believe the world's getting warmer.... I believe that humans contribute to that," Romney said in response to a query on whether he'd disavow the science behind climate change. "It's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may be significant contributors."
WASHINGTON — Polls suggest Mitt Romney is the one Republican presidential hopeful who stands a real chance of beating Barack Obama in 2012, but conservatives are blazing a new warpath against the former Massachusetts governor _ this time for his belief that climate change is real.
"Bye-bye, nomination," radio host Rush Limbaugh, a guiding light for many hard-core conservatives in the United States, said this week after the former Massachussetts governor stated publicly that the planet is getting warmer.
"Another one down. We're in the midst here of discovering that this is all a hoax. The last year has established that the whole premise of man-made global warming is a hoax, and we still have presidential candidates that want to buy into it."
Limbaugh was later challenged during his show by a caller who noted that the non-partisan National Academy of Sciences, considered the Supreme Court of science, has concluded that climate change is both real and brought on by human activity.
But no matter: the bombastic talk show host speaks for a Republican party that's increasingly at odds with political parties worldwide, even fellow conservative ones in Canada, France, Germany and the United Kingdom that are attempting to deal with climate change.
Already distrustful of Romney due to his Mormon faith and the universal health-care he brought into law in Massachusetts that's similar to Obama's sweeping reforms, conservatives are reacting to his climate change remarks as though he's proclaimed George W. Bush was behind the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
"His run for president as a Republican is now officially over," declared Charles Johnson at the conservative Little Green Footballs website.
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