The Senate failed to pass the Lieberman-Warner Cap and Trade Bill on Friday, putting any climate-change legislation off to next year. The Obama campaign responded to the defeat:
As this week's debate on climate change has unfolded, the American people and those watching us around the world had every reason to hope that we would act. Every credible scientist and expert believes action is necessary. This is critical and long overdue legislation that represents a good first step in addressing one of the most serious problems facing our generation. Like many of my Senate colleagues, I believe the legislation could have been made even better. Had there been a substantive Senate debate about some of the concerns with this bill, I believe the outcome could have generated broad support. It certainly would have received my support.Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the Senate has chosen to block progress, rather than work in a good faith manner to address this challenge. This is a failure of our politics and a failure of leadership -- a President who for years denied the problem, and a Republican nominee, John McCain, who claims leadership on the issue but opposes this bipartisan bill....
Obama is wrong on two points: actually most credible scientists don't think anything should be done about Global Warming. The Petition Project. And McCain was for the Lieberman-Warner, Cap and Trade Bill.
Comments (6)
I was thinking about Obama as a possible alternative but after this cap and trade response that makes me think HE is halting progress and wants to tax the air we breathe! Also on the site this triggered a google ad since you mentioned his name.
BTW: I have to keep reminding his supporters Obama isn't irish! Its not O'Bama.
Posted by joe | June 10, 2008 11:10 AM
Posted on June 10, 2008 11:10
Actually, we can't endorse any presidential candidate because they all want carbon taxes.
Posted by Elmer Beaureguard | June 10, 2008 12:55 PM
Posted on June 10, 2008 12:55
Election 2008. No matter who wins, We all loose.
Posted by Drake | June 10, 2008 4:55 PM
Posted on June 10, 2008 16:55
Write in "None of the above" and that might win.
Hey, maybe I should change my name to "None Of The Above" and run on the "Citizens For Global Warming" party.
Posted by Elmer Beaureguard | June 10, 2008 5:04 PM
Posted on June 10, 2008 17:04
#1 Thursday, May 29, 2008
McCain to Miss Lieberman-Warner Vote
In yet another sign that Lieberman-Warner is DOA, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has announced that he will not be present when the Senate begins debate on the Lieberman Warner Climate Security Act next week. From The Washington Post,
In a press conference late Wednesday afternoon, McCain said he did not support the bill sponsored by two of his closest allies, Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and John Warner (R-Va.) because it doesn't offer enough aid to the nuclear industry, and he would not come to the floor to vote on it.
"I have not been there for a number of votes. The same thing happened in the campaign of 2000," he said. "The people of Arizona understand I'm running for president."
While he backs the idea of a mandatory limit on greenhouse gases, he added, he's "been disappointed so far there has not been a robust" provision in the bill for greenhouse gases.
#2
The petition is a hoax. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists of the USA:
In the spring of 1998, mailboxes of US scientists flooded with packet from the "Global Warming Petition Project," including a reprint of a Wall Street Journal op-ed "Science has spoken: Global Warming Is a Myth," a copy of a faux scientific article claiming that "increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have no deleterious effects upon global climate," a short letter signed by past-president National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Frederick Seitz, and a short petition calling for the rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on the grounds that a reduction in carbon dioxide "would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind."
The sponsor, little-known Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, tried to beguile unsuspecting scientists into believing that this packet had originated from the National Academy of the Sciences, both by referencing Seitz's past involvement with the NAS and with an article formatted to look as if it was a published article in the Academy's Proceedings, which it was not.
The NAS quickly distanced itself from the petition project, issuing a statement saying, "the petition does not reflect the conclusions of expert reports of the Academy."
The petition project was a deliberate attempt to mislead scientists and to rally them in an attempt to undermine support for the Kyoto Protocol. The petition was not based on a review of the science of global climate change, nor were its signers experts in the field of climate science. In fact, the only criterion for signing the petition was a bachelor's degree in science. The petition resurfaced in early 2001 in a renewed attempt to undermine international climate treaty negotiations.
Posted by pam | July 1, 2008 8:39 AM
Posted on July 1, 2008 08:39
That was 10 years ago, most of the signers, have signed within the last year and are basing their signature on the posted study.
Posted by Elmer Beaureguard | July 1, 2008 4:11 PM
Posted on July 1, 2008 16:11