Talk:John E. Sununu

Global warming skeptic?
User:Texasnewbie posted the following over at Category:Global warming skeptics. I'm moving it here, as this is the most appropriate location...


 * Why is Sen John E. Sununu listed as a skeptic? He has sponsered environmentally friendly legislation. He is very conservative but this does not seem to be one of his attributes. --unsigned comment by User:Texasnewbie

--Nethgirb (talk) 22:43, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


 * He is on the list because of positions like those described by the Concord Monitor, April 2007 :
 * Sen. John Sununu wants to see more research on climate change before he's sure about how much humans are influencing it. The position is not so different from the one he took two years ago, when he told the Monitor that he would like to see more studies before supporting a national plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
 * Since then, more than 2,500 scientists from around the world have released reports saying that they are 90 percent certain that humans are contributing to warming and that ecosystems on every continent could be changed before the end of the century. Local modeling forecasts that New Hampshire's climate could feel like Atlanta's by then.
 * "The best models out there can't calculate precisely how much is human influence and how much isn't," Sununu said last week. "But we need to put a lot of money into climate modeling and research necessary to understand how all the different greenhouse gases . . . impact long-term global temperature." ... "I think he should be paying attention to what the people in New Hampshire are saying and joining the senior senator (Judd Gregg) in acknowledging that this is a huge problem," said Ted Leach, Republican co-chairman of the Carbon Coalition, a group of businesses, community groups and activists..."At this point, there's only about three people on the planet who are denying that humans are heating our planet. Two of them are in the White House, and the other one is Sen. Sununu," said Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm.
 * Given this information about Sununu's position on climate change, would you agree that he qualifies as a skeptic? betsythedevine (talk) 23:30, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes. It would be good to put a reference to that in the article --Nethgirb (talk) 02:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)


 * As I understand it the great majority of Americans of both parties believed in Global Warming. George Bush senior ran on a promise to take action to stem it.  But, Sununu became a shade tree climate scientist, hired his choice of scientific advisor to Bush and the two of them poisoned the well.  His push to dispute global warming caused by human activity is why republicans today deny what 98% of real climate scientists say is true. So, if the Earth becomes uninhabitable it is on the head of John Sununu, yet it isn't mentioned in his Wikipedia biography. I call that a major omission. -- foobar (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 21:03, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Hispanic/Latino?
I have started a talk page discussion at Talk:John H. Sununu about whether John E. Sununu, John H. Sununu, and Chris Sununu are Hispanic/Latino. Please feel free to visit Talk:John H. Sununu to participate. SunCrow (talk) 23:40, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Ancestry
Given that John E. Sununu was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and is of Lebanese/ Palestinian/ Cuban/ Salvadoran/ English/ Irish/ Scottish ancestry, it seems absurd to identify him in the lead as specifically Salvadoran-American when his only connection to El Salvador is through his maternal grandmother. I have boldly removed that sentence. As far as I'm aware his family has usually been referred to in newspapers and magazines as being of Lebanese descent. In any event, the lead is certainly the wrong place for such a misleading identification. This has already been edit-warred a few months ago. The real question is whether he self-identifies as being Salvadoran-American, and a reference to this effect is posted. Milkunderwood (talk) 04:00, 10 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Agreed. I have removed it again from the lead. There have been several efforts to (over)emphasize the Hispanic/Salvadoran aspects of the Sununu family. See Talk:John_H._Sununu and Talk:List of minority governors and lieutenant governors in the United States. --Animalparty! (talk) 19:26, 14 May 2022 (UTC)