Gov. Gasbagger doesn't believe humans could cause global warming

I smell a future Republican presidential candidate.

:insert smiley desperately fanning stink away from nose:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/10/chris-christie-global-warming_n_781494.html




WASHINGTON -- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has developed a reputation for endearing political bluntness. But comments he reportedly made about global warming on Tuesday afternoon do seem a bit out of tune with a state that remains, generally, progressive on environmental matters.

During a town hall meeting at Toms River, the governor reportedly said that he was skeptical that humans were causing the earth to warm. There are no quotes accompanying the AP piece, save for a note that Christie says "more science" is needed to convince him. But Christie's office provided the Huffington Post with his full remarks early on Wednesday:


Skepticism of man-made global warming is a big trend in Republican circles these days. And the temptation will undoubtedly be to place Christie's position in the broader context of talk that he's privately eying a run for the Republican nomination for president.

That said, he's expressed modicums of skepticism about global warming in various ways before, though never so brusquely. Last spring, Christie took the state's entire allocation for its global warming fund ($65 million) to help close its budget deficit.

UPDATE: Michael Drewniak, the governor's press secretary, added the following remarks shortly after this story was published:

According to American corporate Boyars and the political Kulaks that they get into office, the cost of having jobs in America is having American consumers buying goods priced priced higher than sold overseas and also having consumers live in the pollution of those products production by the cheapest possible method.

It's amazing, but their view of American success is looking down into dumps from the big house on the hill.

I grew up in NJ, and my mom is a special ed public school teacher. I cannot tell you the amount of people that I know who voted for him who are dems, let alone were in the teachers union. Many of the teachers are now shocked, but that is what happens when you vote after only watching fox news.

every damn time one of them wins office they start talking about running them for President...

Whether the 'cause' is human activity or minute changes in the sun's output or cows farting is immaterial. The proven fact is, human activity is making global warming worse. There is absolutely NO doubt that human generated greenhouse gasses, which can be and have been measured and correlated with warming, are increasing the rate of warming. Reducing the human contribution might or might not stop the warming, but it will certainly reduce the rate of increase.

Take action NOW, and see what effects those actions will have later. That there will be effects is not a matter of question.

and go with the consensus.

Best to be CONSERVATIVE and err on the side of caution with this.