McCain Passes On Warming Bill
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) didn't sign up as a co-sponsor for the new bipartisan global warming bill that his colleagues John Warner (R-Va.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced todayThursday, but his aides said that doesn't mean he's shying away from the issue.
McCain is not endorsing the Warner-Lieberman bill "because it doesn't include the nuclear issue by name," according to his spokeswoman Melissa Shuffield. "We can't effectively reduce our emissions without including nuclear energy, which is more efficient than the technologies in the bill."
The new legislation, dubbed "America's Climate Security Act," aims to reduce the nation's greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050 compared to current levels. McCain's bill from last year, which he authored with Lieberman, included up to $600 million in federal funding to build as many as three power plants.
Warner and Lieberman did win over Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.), who has voted against a carbon cap in the past but signed on as a co-sponsor of America's Climate Security Act.
Even more interesting, McCain is no longer the only GOP presidential candidate who now endorses a mandatory cap on emissions linked to global warming. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee announced Saturday in a Manchester, N.H. press conference that he now supports a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases.
"It goes to the moral issue," Huckabee said. "We have a responsibility to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, to conserve energy, to find alternative forms of energy that are renewable and sustainable and environmentally friendly."
--Juliet Eilperin
Posted at 11:14 PM ET on Oct 18, 2007
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Posted by: DrColes | October 21, 2007 12:17 PM
Be wary of Republicans -- remember that Bush himself late in the 2000 campaign came onboard saying he would work to limit CO2 emissions. That got him enough votes to just squeak by into the presidence, but then he did an about-face and reneged on that. A bald-faced campaign lie that sold his voters, his country, and the world downstream just so he could get into power and start the Iraq War -- he has done nothing else besides that, except pass tax breaks during his 7 years in office.
Posted by: johnnormansp | October 20, 2007 5:59 PM
What hasn't McCain passed on? Oh yes, One thing. His opportunity to become a presidential candidate.
Posted by: Supercritic | October 20, 2007 12:36 AM
One of the village idiots posted a comment citing the ruling of a British judge on Gore's film. Apparently he did not read the ruling, or perhaps could not, or simply lied in the expectation that the reader would share his contempt for the facts.
If your idiocy prevails I have one suggestion, Learn to swim or at least tread water for long, long periods of time. Then if that fails, grow gills.
Posted by: Supercritic | October 20, 2007 12:32 AM
Right. That would be Busch, as in the Prez's favorite beverage, which he probably uses to help him be the decider.
Posted by: freddhead | October 20, 2007 12:29 AM
Evidently the same place as you Fred...it's Bush not Busch. I can write just as good as you I just can't type for crap and I'm not blindly accepting Gores profiteering film as the gospel, there is still to much to be proved before man can be blamed for this slight warming trend and before man can be expected to reverse the process. All I stated was let us not rely on congressional decisions to solve what may or may not be a real problem.
They have a poor track record of solving anything just like Bush and Gore both are as useless as Clinton and Carter.
Posted by: jhnjdy | October 19, 2007 10:09 PM
And by the way, jhnjdy, where'd you learn to write? Bob Jones University?
Posted by: freddhead | October 19, 2007 8:08 PM
The debate rages on. Just listen to Limbaugh and Hannity.
The conservative "free market above everything else" dopes continue to deny, in the face of an Everest of scientific evidence from all over the world, that there is a crisis, mostly because it offends their notion that attacking the problem head on will cripple their beloved billion-dollar polluter-corporations. And because there will be no effect on them personally in their lifetime. They have already shown that as a movement, they give not a hoot about future generations (witness the W. Busch[sic]-era deficits and debt load to the Republic of China).
In the meantime, 1000 or more species will become extinct; polar ice caps will drop huge chunks of ice into the oceans--coastal areas will lose acreage; drought will cripple farming in sub-temperate zones--African and South American countries that depend on farming for their sustenance will lose GNP and their populations will suffer famine and ultimately dwindle, resulting in attacks on countries that still have arable land, and the world will be plunged into large-scale wars.
But, as the conservatives--read "Republicans" know full well, none of that will happen in Rush or Sean's lifetime. Therefore, why not deny? It raises millions of dollars from the sheep who believe their words as if they were THE WORDS.
Come on, people, GET A CLUE!!!. I don't want Al Gore to be right. I WANT him to be wrong. But he's not. Not on this one. The problem the Republic[sic] party has with Al Gore is not that he's right, but that his rise in credibility coincides in perfect harmony with the demise of same to president Busch. They've never gotten over the fact that the American voters selected Gore, that in order to win they had to cheat, and that Gore has gone on to fame and glory while Busch will live forever in infamy.
www.freddsjourney.vox.com
Posted by: freddhead | October 19, 2007 8:05 PM
I wouldn't be in to big of a hurry to support any bill in congress that professes to fight Global Warming. Reasons being if you are making your decisions on Al Gores Nobel Propaganda Prize then your as mentaly warped as the facts he knowingly misstated and the scare tactics and over exageration of twisted truths and misrepresentations of scientific fact. If you take the time to listen to the scientific cummunity that dissagrees with his Global Warming myth you will find that there is no proof or scientific evidence that this change in weather patterns are caused by man. Further more there is no proof that can't be scientificaly brought into question that suggests that this warming is nothing more than a normal occurence or that there is a thread of evidence that man can force a change in this occurence.
This rush to ban the use of petroleum products as some suggest is not the answer, I agree that stopping pollution will not hurt and possibly make life better; but rushing to make foolish judgements, rules and legislation will only cost every one of us money. Money that will go to waste, do nothing to stop global warming and possibly do nothing to help the enviroment.
If you realy think that the UN, Al Gore and the US Government are capable of honestly making a good decision that will benefit mankind without more study and true accurate scientific data then you need to check their past record on foolish decisions.
Do a little research on Al Gore and how a British Court ruled on the showing of his great film in British Schools. He terrorized young school kids thru the distortion of facts in his film, a disclaimer know has to run before showing this film in British Schools stating that the film is but one mans opinion and knothing more.
There is no Scientific Facts to support the propaganda and scare tactics in the movie.
Posted by: jhnjdy | October 19, 2007 7:56 PM
"I support cap and trade of carbon emissions and I was disappointed in the senate for rejecting a carbon counting system to measure the sources of emissions because that would have been the first and the most important step to implementing a true cap and trade." -Mike Huckabee, October 13, Manchester NH
Who is next? Giuliani? Romney?
Read more from NH at www.carboncoalition.org/blog
Posted by: switherbee | October 19, 2007 4:19 PM
After years and years of denial and footdragging, finally some sensible words from congress. I don't care if they are republicans or democrats -- listen to science, don't be some backwater skeptic, and let's fight this thing together. To you congressmen with from scientifically underpriveleged districts: part of the idea of representation in the Constitution is that enlightened, educated people can lead the benighted populace, at times, for their own good. If ever there was such a constitutional watershed, this is it.
Posted by: johnnormansp | October 19, 2007 11:53 AM
The Climate Security Act is a great idea, but you got to bring in mind the many gas companies that are in this country. You cannot just tell them to stop selling all that gasoline: they are a big part of America's already diminishing economy.
Posted by: pimpinsax666 | October 19, 2007 8:51 AM
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UK court says Gore is a fraud. August 2007 Update: Man-made Catastrophic Global Warming Not True. In order to be an intelligent reader you must have a basic knowledge. Please do your own homework; a starting point http://www.InteliOrg.com/ further, flawed NASA Global Warming data paid for by George Soros.