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In the first town hall of his freshly announced presidential campaign, Mitt Romney yesterday reaffirmed his view that global warming is occurring and that humans are contributing to it, a position that has been rejected in recent years by many Republicans as the issue has taken on a greater partisan tinge. wanted to know the candidate position on climate change, an issue his opponents have generally avoided so far.



don speak for the scientific community, of course, Romney said. I believe the world getting warmer. I can prove that, but I believe based on what I read that the world is getting warmer. And number two, I north face outlet berkeley ca believe that humans contribute to that . . . so I think it important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may well be significant contributors to the climate change and the global warming that you seeing. Instead, he said yesterday, he wants to wean the country from its dependence on foreign oil by seeking alternative sources of energy, and he said Americans should do more to conserve.



told that we use almost twice as much energy per person as does a European, and more like three times as much energy as does a Japanese citizen, Romney said. can do a lot better.



can north face promotion code just say it going to be all solar and wind, he said. love solar and wind, but they don drive cars. And we not going to all drive Chevy Volts. In it, he wrote: believe that climate change is occurring the reduction in the size of global ice caps is hard to ignore. I also believe that human activity is a contributing factor. According to a Pew Research Center for the People and the Press poll in October, just 38 percent of Republicans say the earth is warming and just 16 percent say it is caused by humans.



Several of Romney Republican rivals are also taking divergent stances on the science behind global warming.



Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the former Utah governor who is toying with a presidential bid, indicated in a Time magazine interview last month that he believes climate change is occurring. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty recorded a radio spot in 2007 calling on Congress to take action on climate change. But last month at a debate in South Carolina, he disavowed his past position. don duck it, bob it, weave it, try to explain it away, he said. made a mistake. In 2007, he told PBS that the weight of evidence over time convinced him of the need to do something about global warming. The next year, he appeared with thenHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an ad saying Congress needed to take action on climate change.



But last month he said such concerns were overblown, telling The Telegraph of Georgia: I see 6,000 scientists sign something, that called political science. That not science. the best of my knowledge the dinosaurs weren driving cars. Sarah Palin had breakfast yesterday in Portsmouth with Senator Kelly Ayotte and later said she planned to take her bus tour to Iowa and South Carolina, two earlyvoting states.



As an indication of the harried nature of the campaign, Huntsman and his wife on their way to New Hampshire for weekend campaign events arrived at Logan International Airport on the same airplane that Romney and his wife got on to fly to Washington (the two potential rivals did not appear to see each other in the terminal). Romney, who sat in coach, arrived in Washington, bought a pretzel at Auntie Anne and then spotted Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.



Secretary! he cried out, as he extended his hand. Romney. Nice to see you. On his campaign favorite theme, the weak economy, Romney used the newly released unemployment data to continue his sharp critique of Obama.



he a nice guy, he well spoken, he could talk a dog off a meat wagon, and yet he hasn delivered, the former Massachusetts governor said in a lecture hall at the University of New Hampshire campus here.



Even last night, as he addressed Christian conservatives at a forum in Washington, he devoted much of his 13minute speech to economic issues. Only at the beginning of the address did he mention social concerns, reiterating his opposition to abortion and gay marriage.



united tonight in a lot of things, he told a gathering of the Faith and Freedom Coalition. united in the love we have for this great country. We united in our belief in the sanctity of human life. We united in our belief in the importance and significance of a marriage between one man and one woman. He said he supported the general goals of a politically dicey proposal from House Republicans that would partially privatize Medicare.



one in my party has proposed any change for those programs for anybody who retired or who near retirement, he said. question is: What are we going to promise people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s? And the answer is, let tell them the truth. A man asked whether there should be criminal sanctions against doctors who perform abortions in states that make them illegal.