The Candidates on Climate Change (ContributorNetwork)

The climate change debate is heating up, and with an election on the way, it's important to know what the candidates believe in regard to the issue. Here is what the front-runners and President Barack Obama have to say on climate change:

Mitt Romney: "My view is that we don't know what's causing climate change on this planet," he said at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh. "And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us. My view with regards to energy policy is pretty straightforward: I want us to become energy secure and independent of the oil cartels."

Herman Cain: "I don't believe global warming is real. Do we have climate change? Yes. Is it a crisis? No," he said. "The real science doesn't say that we have any major crisis or threat when it comes to climate change." He strongly opposes legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, because he believes it is "another source of taxation for the bureaucrats."

Rick Perry: "I do believe that the issue of global warming has been politicized. I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. I think we're seeing it almost weekly or even daily, scientists who are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. Yes, our climates change. They've been changing ever since the Earth was formed. But I do not buy into, that a group of scientists, who in some cases were found to be manipulating this data."

Ron Paul: "(The Copenhagen treaty on climate change) can't help the economy. It has to hurt the economy and it can't possibly help the environment because they're totally off track on that. It might turn out to be one of the biggest hoaxes of all history, this whole global warming terrorism that they've been using, but we'll have to just wait and see, but it cannot be helpful. It's going to hurt everybody."

Barack Obama: "Few issues facing America or the world are more important than combating Climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear. Sea levels are rising. Coastlines are shrinking. We've seen record drought spreading famine and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season. Climate change and our dependence on foreign oil, if left unaddressed, will continue to weaken our economy, and threaten our national security."

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obama/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20111029/us_ac/10313127_the_candidates_on_climate_change

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