Thursday, September 17, 2009

[Signature non-stellar reporting from Minnesota Public Radio]: GOP gubernatorial candidates reject global warming science
St. Paul, Minn. — Nearly all of the Republicans running for governor next year say they don't believe in human-caused climate change.

In fact, eight of the nine declared GOP candidates say they view global warming science as an unproven theory that should no longer drive state policy.
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"We always [besides global warming fraud, what is Morse talking about?] take it very seriously when candidates for major statewide offices are blindly speaking against the overwhelming body of science that we have out there on a major issue that threatens the very future of our state," [Steve Morse, executive director of the Minnesota Environmental Partnership] said.
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The views of the majority of Republican candidates also contrast sharply with those of their fellow GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
[Is Minnesota Public Radio unaware of their own state governor's "about-face" on The Most Important Issue in Human History?!]
Pawlenty's about-face began while he was still in the midst of a series of climate change forums with Steger that were held across the state. He bailed before the final forum and never looked back. A governor who declared himself a champion of clean energy when he was chairman of the National Governors Association has now bowed so low to his party's "Drill, Baby, Drill" faction that he called on the state's congressional delegation in June to vote against the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which embodied most of the very principles he had embraced when he hitched himself to Steger's visionary crusade.

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