Chris Christie forcefully attacked President Obama’s and the Democrats’ climate agenda Saturday in Iowa.
“The president’s spending his time in Europe, to talk about climate change. I guarantee you one thing: The parents of those dead folks in Paris, they’re not worried about climate change,” Christie said to a Mason City crowd.
“This climate change thing is clearly a play for that second Nobel Peace Prize,” Christie said. “That’s what it’s all about.”
“He wants to get one he might actually have the excuse for, as opposed to the first one, which he got just because he gave a good speech at the U.N.,” Christie said, referencing Obama’s first Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, which he received “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The awarding of that prize to Obama so earlier in his time in office was much maligned by conservative critics.
“Climate change happens. Climate change is all the time, always has,” Christie said, more generally on the topic. “I think it’s ridiculous to say that the activity of humans doesn’t contribute to climate change. They do. Stuff that we do contributes to the change of the climate. The question is: does that create a crisis? I don’t think it does.”
“I don’t think we have to take the kind of drastic measures that the president is talking about,” Christie said.
