Republican Debate

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I disagree, Dick. Not to say that I have huge faith in the federal government to manage the environment, but I know I wouldn't trust it to the individual states.

Founder of the Tea Party Caucus in Congress, Bachmann has emerged as a sort of Rachel Carson-in-Reverse, damning environmentalists and making sweeping statements of denial about human-caused warming of the Earth.

“Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful,” she said in a House floor speech of the greenhouse gas that is building in the atmosphere.

“It is part of Earth’s life cycle, and yet we’re being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in Earth.”

During Bachman’s first House reelection, in 2008, she declared: “The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.”

I have to agree about global warming being mostly attributed to natural climatic changes. Most people believe the junk science version because they don't know enough science to realize Earth would heat up/cool down on its own.

What little humans do influence the climate is due largley to biomass burning in lesser developed nations. We have no control over them. They have lived that way for thousands of years. The EPA doesn't have any say in what they.

States do regulate vehicle and factory/refinery emissions and clear air and water standards. The problem I have with the EPA (regional headquarters is Atlanta so I know a few longtime employees) is regulation to the point of economic disaster for this country and billions of wasteful spendinng on useless projects like Superfund sites. Have they actually cleaned any Superfund sites?

Don't listen to politicians regarding global warming. Take a few geology and meteorology classes and you'll have a different view of the matter.