Starboard Broadside

With less than half of Republicans believing climate change is a man-made event and strong minority denying its existence outright (see link), Mitt Romney's views on climate change could seriously jeopardize his 2012 chances:

In “No Apology,” Mitt Romney sets himself up in the shrinking “climate change is happening but we don’t need a carbon tax” camp.

I 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.

Again, this issue is evolving so fast, with people like Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) becoming Tea Party folk heroes and sites like Pajamas Media demanding that Al Gore return his Academy Award, that by the time Iowa caucus-goers come out, Romney might be in the deep minority of GOPers.

I'm also wondering what he thinks we should do about it, since he acknowledges "climate change is occurring." I just re-watched An Inconvenient Truth last night, and Al Gore argued in it that politicians don't want to acknowledge the reality because it would force them to do something about it... but I guess maybe Romney's trying the approach of acknowledging and still doing nothing.