climatebrad | Cory Gardner Rant: "We Have To Stand Up to the Radical Environmentalists!" @climatebrad | Uploaded November 2014 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
8/23/13: Speaking at the Steamboat Institute Freedom Conference, Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) denounces the "radical environmentalists" and "social engineers" who oppose the "individual job creators" who run fossil-fuel companies. "We will rise up, and we will win!"
TRANSCRIPT: We have to stand up to the radical environmentalists, the social engineers who believe that we must stop. And in Colorado we know that threat is real. We know they're going to try to stop something that is creating jobs on the eastern plains and the western slope of this great state. We know they're going to try to say no to the Marcellus, no to the Bakken. They've already tried to say no to the Keystone pipeline. But you know what? We know we're going to win because of the power of our individual job creators. They are right, they are with us. And when the individuals realize what is at stake in this country, we will rise up, and we will win. The shale revolution is real."
8/23/13: Speaking at the Steamboat Institute Freedom Conference, Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) denounces the "radical environmentalists" and "social engineers" who oppose the "individual job creators" who run fossil-fuel companies. "We will rise up, and we will win!"
TRANSCRIPT: We have to stand up to the radical environmentalists, the social engineers who believe that we must stop. And in Colorado we know that threat is real. We know they're going to try to stop something that is creating jobs on the eastern plains and the western slope of this great state. We know they're going to try to say no to the Marcellus, no to the Bakken. They've already tried to say no to the Keystone pipeline. But you know what? We know we're going to win because of the power of our individual job creators. They are right, they are with us. And when the individuals realize what is at stake in this country, we will rise up, and we will win. The shale revolution is real."
![Romney v. Sandy [extended]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YOBrrVMRFlE/hqdefault.jpg "Romney v. Sandy [extended]
10/31/12: Climate Silence ad produced by Forecast the Facts juxtaposing GOP Republican candidate Mitt Romneys mockery of global warming with Superstorm Sandy hitting the East Coast of the United States. Extended version released for the Web.
Press release:
Millions of Americans are still reeling from Hurricane Sandy, a horrific, fossil-fueled storm. Climate scientists agree that global warming pollution was a key factor in its destructive power, so Mitt Romney must hope we forgot that he mocked climate change at the Republican National Convention, to the raucous cheers and applause of the GOP delegates. We didn’t forget.
We’re putting out this video to remind every voter struck by Sandy that Mitt Romney thinks the poisoning of our weather is a joke. Climate Silence members have been leading the charge against climate silence for months. But in the final week of this election, the most powerful climate messenger turned out to be the harrowing reality of a freakish Frankenstorm.
Sandy is without question the October Surprise of 2012, and it has pushed climate change to the forefront of a campaign where it was previously almost entirely absent.
As families recover and voters head to the polls, we want the American public to remember this cold fact: less than two months before sea level rise devastated New York City with more powerful storm surges, Governor Romney laughed at the very notion of rising seas.
Our next President must be someone who is prepared to forthrightly address climate change disasters like Sandy. The tragedy of Hurricane Sandy has made it crystal clear: it’s time to end the climate silence.
Brad Johnson, Campaign Manager, Forecast the Facts")
