Did global warming cause Romney to lose the election?
Haley Barber, Karl Rove and other Republicans are blaming Hurricane Sandy for Romney's loss claiming the super storm caused the presidential candidate to "lose momentum."
Now, I'm not saying that Hurricane Sandy is a direct result of human contributions to atmospheric greenhouse gasses, but many signs point to the severity and trajectory of the storm strongly being influenced by AGW.
Is this the "breaking point" that will cause the right to accept AGW so they don't have to accept responsibility for poor campaigning and a lack of understanding for what the country actually cares about?
Gary F2012-11-08T21:14:44Z
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They are more likely to claim that, desperate to stop the Romney freight train, Obama called Al Gore and told him to put down the Twinkies and fire up HAARP so he could be a hero and make a Republican Governor suck his dick on TV.
"Recent scientific evidence suggests that HAARP is fully operational and has the ability of potentially triggering floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes."
This would be the same Karl Rove who is suggesting a civil war over the election result, Hmmm sore loser ya think, it's not like in the end the vote was even close. Whether you think Obama acted on Sandy for the votes or simply because he was a good President doing his job, both candidates had the specter of a past President sitting on his hands doing nothing as a national disaster unfolded as a reminder, now remind which side of politics was he on. The reason Romney lost (apart from some obvious gaffs along the way like his "folder of women" was and is being discussed in the media on both sides, the rough consensus seems to be that the Republicans are concentrating on the white right wing vote which worked 20 years ago, but today the bigger voting block is no longer White but Black, Hispanic and Asian as a group who instead of whinging about the system but not voting, actually get out and vote. So not much to do with AGW and more to do with the Republicans thinking it's still 1956 rather than 2012.
Highly doubtful. Obama got his expected (this time the poll predictions were accurate) about 1-2% margin in the swing states where the action was. It is unlikely that more than about that 1-2% was swayed in the last weeks, and climate change was not probably not the swayer in most such instances (also because people who especially care about it are not mostly not swing voters to begin with). The only swing state hit by Sandy was Virginia, but Obama had a 3% margin of victory there.
All indications so far are that the GOP (which is actually neither G nor O in the sense of sticking to any principle that any of its G leaders of the past would recognize) remains firmly committed to ignorance, lying, and demagoguery.
As usual American and UK scientist are years behind Slovak high school children who ride the short yellow bus.. It is wildly known here this green house global heating hot warming is cause by humans but not of this era. UFO is nothing more than a fancy time machine transporting human 5 million years from the future. They cause this warming heating hot greenhouse to off set the coming massive ice age. Contrails containing massive amounts of carbon are ways these future freakish types peoples control the green house effect. They also gave us VHS tapes, sugar-free sweeteners and 3D-glasses that enabled us to see movies in 3D cinema..
Romney's last minute ad campaign in Ohio claiming that the manufacturing of the Jeep was moving offshored didn't fare well as it was proven false. Obama's bail out of the automobile manufacturer's saved a lot of jobs in Ohio and Romney opposed it then he came out with a false ad claiming Obama chased jobs away. Romney destroyed what little reputation he had in a battleground state.
The Hurricane certainly put Romney at a disadvantage because Obama had to do his job and look after the needs of his people while Romney had nothing to do but campaign and work on raising relief funds but that wasn't as important as his own desperate moves in advertisements.
It was a close race and certainly there are issues that Obama should review but Hurricane Sandy didn't break Romney, Romney broke Romney.