US Republican elder statesman supports carbon tax - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
GEORGE SHULTZ: The facts are that a new ocean is being created in the arctic, and the cover over Greenland is melting. So those are facts, they're not scientific opinions, they're not conjectures, they're facts.Connie Hedegaard Looking Increasingly Isolated And Delusional « Tory Aardvark
And they're happening because the globe is warming, that's a fact. The question is why is that, and I think the ideas that have been put forward that greenhouse gases and what that does are very persuasively a strong part of this.
I'm not enough of a scientist to say but I've listened to a lot of people and thought about it a lot and it seems to me that we should recognise that this is a potential problem of great seriousness and we need to be paying attention.
“I strongly advise against more stringent targets after 2020″, Oettinger said. During the years 2007 to 2009, there had been too many “do-gooders” in the European Parliament and climate policy enthusiasm had become excessive. It was useless “to go to Greenland and hug polar bears,” said the CDU politician. German Chancellor Angela Merkel had visited Greenland in August 2007 as part of her climate policy and had been photographed in front of melting icebergs.Real News: CLIMATE CHANGE HERETICS - YouTube
[5-minute video] After debating climate change with Bill Maher this weekend, Will Cain delves in to the importance of skepticism in science.Lifting the curse of Apollo: Climate change as metaphor and reality - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
It must be admitted that the threats posed by global warming are situated primarily in the future. Despite some claims of present harm, there is always an element of uncertainty as to the reliability of predicted effects.
This makes it almost certain that there will be some scientists who sincerely dissent from the prevailing views, and this seems more likely if their research is funded by those with an interest in promoting climate skepticism.
The only Repubs that support a carbon tax are those over 85. Yes, 85. These Repubs have not advanced their views with the rest of us conservatives. Their views are stuck at a spot at least a decade past. And starting in 2007, Repubs en masse have tacked away from believing in AGW. With the exception of some of elderly, like George Shultz.
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