Rick Santorum: Global Warming Is Government-Sponsored "Junk Science"

Rick Santorum may not win the 2012 Republican nomination - make that definitely will not win the 2012 Republican nomination - but he's taking the conversation into the right places.  While Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, and even Chris Christie cannot get past the wall of political correctness and gets their mouths to say "climate change is crap", we at least have one Republican who has the brass balls to say what the American people know in their heart:  That "climate change" is sheer and utter bullshit.

I believe the earth gets warmer, and I also believe the earth gets cooler, and I think history points out that it does that and that the idea that man through the production of CO2 which is a trace gas in the atmosphere and the manmade part of that trace gas is itself a trace gas is somehow responsible for climate change is, I think, just patently absurd when you consider all of the other factors, El Nino, La Nina, sunspots, you know, moisture in the air.  There’s a variety of factors that contribute to the earth warming and cooling, and to me this is an opportunity for the left to create — it’s a beautifully concocted scheme because they know that the earth is gonna cool and warm.  It’s been on a warming trend so they said, “Oh, let’s take advantage of that and say that we need the government to come in and regulate your life some more because it’s getting warmer,” just like they did in the seventies when it was getting cool, they needed the government to come in and regulate your life because it’s getting cooler.  It’s just an excuse for more government control of your life, and I’ve never been for any scheme or even accepted the junk science behind the whole narrative.

His statements will put Romney et al on the defensive, because they now will have to refute the root of Santorum's argument: Climate change exists only to empower the government to take away more of your freedom and money and spend it in ways that benefit their ideological causes, and their political allies. Santorum has put his adversaries in a box: If they disagree and claim global warming is in fact man-made and real, how can they combat it without growing the size and scope of the government? And how can you profess the necessity of growing the size and scope of the government and still expect to get the Republican nomination?

Check - f*cking - mate. Good job, Rick. Let's see the RHINOs dance now...


Related - why would liberals pervert science so deeply just to force some societal change that might in fact be achieved in some other way?  For one, "some other way" may not empower them and enrich them with your money. Another reason might be that they are simply barbarians, rooting for the collapse of Western Civilization in the hopes that they - your self-professed superiors - might profit by your demise by partaking in the spoils:

....This is perennially the work of the barbarian, to undermine rational standards of judgment, to corrupt the inherited intuitive wisdom by which the people have always lived and to do this not by spreading new beliefs but by creating a climate of doubt and bewilderment in which clarity about the larger aims of life is dimmed and the self-confidence of the people is destroyed so that finally what you have is an impotent nihilism.

Which is why they tell you after the coldest winter and the coolest spring in recent memory that the planet is getting warmer, why they tells you terrorists are good and Americans are evil, and why they use expressions like "spending reductions in the tax codes" (that's Barack!) instead of "raising your taxes through the roof"...