Messed Up

8 Most Messed Up Republican Quotes on Climate Change

By Sarah Burris

On Wednesday, the Mitch McConnell-led Senate voted 98-1 on an amendment to a Keystone XL bill that acknowledges climate change is real. Before you start doing cartwheels, this doesn’t mean that the likes of Jim Inhofe and Ted Cruz finally saw the light. Quite the opposite, it gave them an excuse to say that climate change has always happened, which doesn’t mean that mankind has anything to do with it.

Sigh.

Listed below are people who are either running for President, have run for President or Vice-President, or are current elected officials. This, ladies and gents, is your government. But do we want it to be our future?

1. Rick Perry

“I don’t believe man-made global warming is settled in science enough.”

2. Michele Bachmann

“Carbon dioxide is not a harmful gas; it is a harmless gas … And yet we’re being told that we have to reduce this natural substance and reduce the American standard of living to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in the Earth.”

3. Herman Cain

“Do we have climate change? Yes. Is it a crisis? No. … Because the science, the real science, doesn’t say that we have any major crisis or threat when it comes to climate change.”

4. Santorum

“The idea that man, through the production of CO2 — which is a trace gas in the atmosphere, and the man-made 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 the other factors, El Niño, La Niña, sunspots, moisture in the air.”

5. Sarah Palin

“These global warming studies [are] a bunch of snake oil science.”

6. Joni Ernst

“I don’t know the science behind climate change. I can’t say one way or another what is the direct impact, whether it’s man-made or not. I’ve heard arguments from both sides, but I do believe in protecting our environment, but without the job killing regulations that are coming out of the [Environmental Protection Agency] …”

7. Mitch McConnell

“For everybody who thinks it’s warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn’t.”

8. Kelly Ayotte

“there is scientific evidence that demonstrates there is some impact from human activities. However I don’t think the evidence is conclusive.”