{"id":9264,"date":"2015-05-11T02:27:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T02:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9264"},"modified":"2018-11-08T01:14:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T01:14:58","slug":"christie-on-climate-change-its-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9264","title":{"rendered":"Christie on climate change: It’s real"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n

What gives with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie? Doesn’t he want to be the Republican nominee for president in 2016?<\/p>\n

He’s traipsing through New Hampshire saying some things that are sure to fire up the GOP base against a potential Christie presidential candidacy.<\/p>\n

He’s saying, well, that climate change cannot be denied and, what’s more, that human beings are a contributing factor to the world’s changing climate.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/241495-chris-christie-global-warming-is-real<\/a><\/p>\n

The planet is heating up, Christie says, and we need to get busy trying to minimize the impact that human activity has on this phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Look, his own state was hammered in October 2012 by Superstorm\/Hurricane Sandy, which\u00a0weather experts said was such an anomaly that they blamed climate change on that event when it happened. It wiped out coastal communities in New York and New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Christie has changed his tune on climate change. He once opposed\u00a0regional efforts to cut greenhouse gases. Then he vowed to eliminate coal-fired power\u00a0plants from his state.<\/p>\n

Yes, this climate change issue has sparked vigorous\u00a0debate. Those who deny it’s happening —\u00a0including influential U.S. senators, such as Republican Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma — push back by saying that science hasn’t\u00a0 yet concluded that human beings are a factor in climate change … if it’s actually occurring.<\/p>\n

Others, though, say science is on their side, that temperatures are\u00a0rising, ice caps are melting, weather patterns are changing and that human beings\u00a0play a significant role — through deforestation and carbon emissions — in creating those changes.<\/p>\n

Now we can welcome a potential leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Gov. Christie, for changing your mind.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n\n

Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What gives with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie? Doesn’t he want to be the Republican nominee for president in 2016? He’s traipsing through New Hampshire saying some things that are sure to fire up the GOP base against a potential Christie presidential candidacy. He’s saying, well, that climate change cannot be denied and, what’s more, … Continue reading Christie on climate change: It’s real<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[73,965,1027,1927,1943,2478,5246],"class_list":["post-9264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","tag-2016-campaign","tag-chris-christie","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-gop-base","tag-jim-inhofe","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33337,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264\/revisions\/33337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}