NPR - "On Climate Policy, Romney Walks A Tightrope" - Apologizes For Romney's Denials

[TomCADem]

It is amazing how Republicans are given such a free pass on climate change that if they merely acknowledge any change, they are hailed as a moderate even though they deny the role of human activity in such change and advocate rolling back existing regulations.

http://www.npr.org/2012/10/25/163643430/on-climate-policy-romney-walks-a-tightrope

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has accepted the scientific consensus that the planet is warming up. But he has not accepted another element of that consensus: that humans are largely responsible. His position is well-grounded in politics, but not so in logic.

Romney rarely speaks of climate change; he has written that he believes the planet is warming up. But why it's happening is another matter.

"My view is that we don't know what's causing climate change on this planet, and the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try and reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us," he said at a private fundraiser early in the campaign.

In other written comments, he has since said humans play some role, but he hasn't embraced the sweeping scientific consensus — backed by thousands of studies and accepted by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and its counterparts around the world — that humans are largely responsible.

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In other words, research, but no action — other than rolling back some of the Obama administration's climate policies.