Santorum: ‘There’s No Such Thing As Global Warming’

By Brad Johnson and Tanya Somanader/Think Progress

In an interview with the lame-duck Fox News host Glenn Beck, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum claimed global warming is a hoax. Beck grinned as Santorum called for a “drill everywhere” policy and claimed that there is “no such thing as global warming”:

BECK: Oil?

SANTORUM: Drill. Drill everywhere.

BECK: Coal?

SANTORUM: Absolutely. Natural gas. We have huge stores. 263 years of oil at the current rate, almost 200 years of gas, and 300 years of coal.

BECK: What about global warming?

SANTORUM: There is no such thing as global warming. It is, in my opinion, there are hundreds of factors that cause the earth to warm and cool, and the trace gas – of which human participation in this trace gas – is . . .

BECK: This could seal the deal for me. Whatever, I got enough.

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Earlier this month, Santorum told the other enforcer of conservative thought, Rush Limbaugh, that global warming is “junk science.”