Rick Santorum continued his attack on global warming at the February 6, 2012 Colorado Energy Summit. Held at the Colorado School of Mines, the event was hosted by the Colorado Oil and Gas Association and Consumer Energy Alliance, a group backed by a who's who of Big Oil companies, including BP and Exxon Mobil.
Transcript of Rick Santorum's comments on global warming:
The most important thing we need to do, which is what this administration has not done, which is to use sound science, not politicized science.
We have seen the politicization of science like we have never seen before in the recent years.
We saw it with global warming.
A absolute travesty of scientific research that was motivated by politics.
Motivated by those who saw this as an opportunity to create a panic and crisis and for government to step in and even greatly and more control your life.
I can tell you, I for one never bought the hoax.
I for one understood, just from science, that there were a hundred factors that influence the climate, and to suggest that one minor factor of which man’s contribution is a minor factor in the minor factor is the determining ingredient in the sauce that affects the entire global warming and cooling is just absurd on its face.
And yet, we had politicians running to the ramparts.
Unfortunately politicians who happen to be running for the Republican nomination for President, who bought into man-made global warming and bought into cap and trade.
Both Congressman Gingrich and Governor Romney, both supported the idea of man made global warming and in fact cap and trade.
I never did, and unless the science is such that it is a heck of a lot better than what we see today, I won’t.Video of Rick Santorum's global warming remarks:
A full video of Rick Santorum's speech at the 2012 Colorado Energy Summit can be found on C-Span
