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Romney: I Agree with Experts Who Say Climate Change Is the Cause of the Weather Patterns We’re Seeing

‘Clearly we’re seeing heat and drought, which is a real concern in the American west and other parts of the world’
By Grabien Staff

EXCERPT: 
ROMNEY: "Well, the people that are more expert than I do believe that the kind of weather patterns we're seeing are the result of climate change. And I have no reason to disagree with that. Clearly, we're seeing heat and drought, which is a real concern in the American West and in other parts of the world. And we need to undertake efforts globally to make sure that we're not contributing to more warming of the planet. That's going to take a long, long time, however, to get the whole world to reduce our emissions. There are some places like China and Brazil and Indonesia and India which are going to continue to grow their emissions into the atmosphere. So that's a real concern. But we have a more immediate need, which is, while we're waiting for that to occur over the decades, what are we going to do to protect from rising sea levels, from greater storms and from drought? And I, for instance, have introduced a piece of legislation, along with Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, to say, look, let's put a commission together to really study how we can deal with these fires and to reduce the fuel load which exists in some of our forests of deadwood to make sure we're getting rid of some of the kind of fuel that would allow for these conflagrations to overwhelm us. So, we have got some work to do. And I believe it's time for us to address the here and now, as well as the international effort we're going to have over some decades to try and reduce our CO2 emissions."
 

 

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