Huntsman backtracks on trust in climate science

Posted By Uri Friedman Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 5:11 PM Share

Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman turned heads today when he declared at a Heritage Foundation event that there are "questions about the validity of" climate science and "not enough information right now to be able to formulate policies" to address climate change. While acknowledging the overwhelming consensus among scientists on climate change -- and even suggesting we defer to it -- Huntsman concluded that the debate still needs to "play out within the scientific community."

While the comments may seem like a subdued version of the climate-change skepticism expressed by nearly all of this year's Republican candidates, they're surprising given that Huntsman distanced himself from the GOP field in August by tweeting that he "trust[ed] scientists on global warming" and cautioning Republicans against becoming the "anti-science party." Huntsman has also renounced cap-and-trade schemes  after implementing a cap-and-trade program to curb greenhouse-gas emissions as governor of Utah. The  "Energy Security" section on Huntsman's website stays quiet on climate change.

While Huntsman may be the latest Republican candidate to veer toward the climate skeptics after expressing more moderate positions, he's certainly not the first. Mitt Romney said "we don't know what's causing climate change" after previously saying humans were contributing to global warming. Ron Paul, who once allowed that human activity might play a role in climate change, now calls global warming a "hoax." And Newt Gingrich, who joined Nancy Pelosi in 2008 to urge government action on global warming (see below) now says the ad is "probably the dumbest single thing I've done in recent years. It is inexplicable." (In an interview with Glenn Beck today, Gingrich softened a bit, saying "I think that there is evidence on both sides of the climate change argument.")

These shifts in position, of course, could be in response to new evidence such as leaked emails from climate scientists, but they also smack of the need to play to the base during primaries. A Pew Survey last week found that while there has been "sharp increases in the percentages of independents and moderate and liberal Republicans who say there is solid evidence of global warming" since 2009, "opinions among conservative Republicans have changed little since 2009," with just over 30 percent believing there is solid evidence for climate change.

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3:01 PM ET

December 10, 2011

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I would like to draw the attention of the guys of the Holy Quran to a few social problems creeping clandestinely in our society. It is due to miscommunication of life style, of values of life to live with on this planet. This miscommunication prevails throughout our society: in the family, in the community, between management and employees, between financial world and the Ministry of Finances, between government and people. This malfunctioning of communication has brought some inherent social issues. The cause of this malfunctioning in the social fabric is quite simple. For many years, the people in the developed countries worked hard to (a) restore their countries from the ruins of World War II, (b) develop the economy and (c) build a modern technological state. When they attained this great goal, they lost much of the motivating force that had knit their nations so tightly together. Now the present parents being enough affluent had provided their generation homes, meals, and extras that came to be thought of as basics - audio and video equipments, software, mobile phones, computers and plenty of newer technological devices to pursue. At present this generation of those affluents do not know what kind of life style to take up. With these basics, they started enjoying their life sitting in closed rooms. This brought confusion and uncertainty that has pulled the people further apart and caused a whole raft of social problems. This consequently made them socially withdrawn people.
Now these socially withdrawn people find it extremely painful to communicate with the outside world, and thus they have further turned to the tools: watching television, playing video games, owning computers, mobile phones, most of them having no friends - that all bring virtual reality into their closed rooms and hence brought suffering. This phenomenon is drowning them in a tsunami of technology, letting them sink even deeper into a labyrinth of confusion. That is why we feel dire need to bring the teachings of the Quran to the new generation for opening new vistas of intellectual horizon.

I would like to draw the attention of the guys of the Holy Quran to a few social problems creeping clandestinely in our society. It is due to miscommunication of life style, of values of life to live with on this planet. This miscommunication prevails throughout our society: in the family, in the community, between management and employees, between financial world and the Ministry of Finances, between government and people. This malfunctioning of communication has brought some inherent social issues. The cause of this malfunctioning in the social fabric is quite simple. For many years, the people in the developed countries worked hard to (a) restore their countries from the ruins of World War II, (b) develop the economy and (c) build a modern technological state. When they attained this great goal, they lost much of the motivating force that had knit their nations so tightly together. Now the present parents being enough affluent had provided their generation homes, meals, and extras that came to be thought of as basics - audio and video equipments, software, mobile phones, computers and plenty of newer technological devices to pursue. At present this generation of those affluents do not know what kind of life style to take up. With these basics, they started enjoying their life sitting in closed rooms. This brought confusion and uncertainty that has pulled the people further apart and caused a whole raft of social problems. This consequently made them socially withdrawn people.
Now these socially withdrawn people find it extremely painful to communicate with the outside world, and thus they have further turned to the tools: watching television, playing video games, owning computers, mobile phones, most of them having no friends - that all bring virtual reality into their closed rooms and hence brought suffering. This phenomenon is drowning them in a tsunami of technology, letting them sink even deeper into a labyrinth of confusion. That is why we feel dire need to bring the teachings of the Quran to the new generation for opening new vistas of intellectual horizon.

I would like to draw the attention of the guys of the Holy Quran to a few social problems creeping clandestinely in our society. It is due to miscommunication of life style, of values of life to live with on this planet. This miscommunication prevails throughout our society: in the family, in the community, between management and employees, between financial world and the Ministry of Finances, between government and people. This malfunctioning of communication has brought some inherent social issues. The cause of this malfunctioning in the social fabric is quite simple. For many years, the people in the developed countries worked hard to (a) restore their countries from the ruins of World War II, (b) develop the economy and (c) build a modern technological state. When they attained this great goal, they lost much of the motivating force that had knit their nations so tightly together. Now the present parents being enough affluent had provided their generation homes, meals, and extras that came to be thought of as basics - audio and video equipments, software, mobile phones, computers and plenty of newer technological devices to pursue. At present this generation of those affluents do not know what kind of life style to take up. With these basics, they started enjoying their life sitting in closed rooms. This brought confusion and uncertainty that has pulled the people further apart and caused a whole raft of social problems. This consequently made them socially withdrawn people.
Now these socially withdrawn people find it extremely painful to communicate with the outside world, and thus they have further turned to the tools: watching television, playing video games, owning computers, mobile phones, most of them having no friends - that all bring virtual reality into their closed rooms and hence brought suffering. This phenomenon is drowning them in a tsunami of technology, letting them sink even deeper into a labyrinth of confusion. That is why we feel dire need to bring the teachings of the Quran to the new generation for opening new vistas of intellectual horizon.

I would like to draw the attention of the guys of the Holy Quran to a few social problems creeping clandestinely in our society. It is due to miscommunication of life style, of values of life to live with on this planet. This miscommunication prevails throughout our society: in the family, in the community, between management and employees, between financial world and the Ministry of Finances, between government and people. This malfunctioning of communication has brought some inherent social issues. The cause of this malfunctioning in the social fabric is quite simple. For many years, the people in the developed countries worked hard to (a) restore their countries from the ruins of World War II, (b) develop the economy and (c) build a modern technological state. When they attained this great goal, they lost much of the motivating force that had knit their nations so tightly together. Now the present parents being enough affluent had provided their generation homes, meals, and extras that came to be thought of as basics - audio and video equipments, software, mobile phones, computers and plenty of newer technological devices to pursue. At present this generation of those affluents do not know what kind of life style to take up. With these basics, they started enjoying their life sitting in closed rooms. This brought confusion and uncertainty that has pulled the people further apart and caused a whole raft of social problems. This consequently made them socially withdrawn people.
Now these socially withdrawn people find it extremely painful to communicate with the outside world, and thus they have further turned to the tools: watching television, playing video games, owning computers, mobile phones, most of them having no friends - that all bring virtual reality into their closed rooms and hence brought suffering. This phenomenon is drowning them in a tsunami of technology, letting them sink even deeper into a labyrinth of confusion. That is why we feel dire need to bring the teachings of the Quran to the new generation for opening new vistas of intellectual horizon.

I would like to draw the attention of the guys of the Holy Quran to a few social problems creeping clandestinely in our society. It is due to miscommunication of life style, of values of life to live with on this planet. This miscommunication prevails throughout our society: in the family, in the community, between management and employees, between financial world and the Ministry of Finances, between government and people. This malfunctioning of communication has brought some inherent social issues. The cause of this malfunctioning in the social fabric is quite simple. For many years, the people in the developed countries worked hard to (a) restore their countries from the ruins of World War II, (b) develop the economy and (c) build a modern technological state. When they attained this great goal, they lost much of the motivating force that had knit their nations so tightly together. Now the present parents being enough affluent had provided their generation homes, meals, and extras that came to be thought of as basics - audio and video equipments, software, mobile phones, computers and plenty of newer technological devices to pursue. At present this generation of those affluents do not know what kind of life style to take up. With these basics, they started enjoying their life sitting in closed rooms. This brought confusion and uncertainty that has pulled the people further apart and caused a whole raft of social problems. This consequently made them socially withdrawn people.
Now these socially withdrawn people find it extremely painful to communicate with the outside world, and thus they have further turned to the tools: watching television, playing video games, owning computers, mobile phones, most of them having no friends - that all bring virtual reality into their closed rooms and hence brought suffering. This phenomenon is drowning them in a tsunami of technology, letting them sink even deeper into a labyrinth of confusion. That is why we feel dire need to bring the teachings of the Quran to the new generation for opening new vistas of intellectual horizon.

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