Mayor Rudy Giuliani
Biography
Rudy Giuliani was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1944. He attended Manhattan College and went on to graduate from NYU School of Law. In 1970, Giuliani joined the Office of the US Attorney, and in 1973, he rose to serve as executive US Attorney. Giuliani was U.S. Attorney until January 1989, resigning as the Reagan administration ended. Giuliani first ran for New York City Mayor attempting to succeed Ed Koch in 1989 but lost to Democrat David Dinkins by 47,080 votes out of 1,899,845 votes cast, in the closest election in city history. In 1993, Giuliani again ran for Mayor, defeating the incumbent Dinkins by 53,000 votes. After leaving the mayor's office in 2001, Giuliani has remained in the private sector. He founded a security consulting firm and joined the law firm Bracewell & Patterson LLP, which has been renamed Bracewell & Giuliani LLP.
Statements about global Warming
02/12/2007
"I do believe there's global warming, yes. The big question has always been how much of it is happening because of natural climate changes and how much of it is happening because of human intervention… The overwhelming number of scientists now believe that there is significant human cause… [Debate on the existence of global warming] is almost unnecessary ... because we should be dealing with pollution anyway." Response to press question at the Churchill Club, San Francisco Cronicle.
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"Everyone accepts the fact that it's [global warming] happening and it has an impact." Greenwire.
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