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Candidates join scientists in climate change consensus
Submitted by Rocky Barker on Wed, 05/14/2008 - 8:06am.
If you want to vote for a presidential candidate that believes the threat of climate change is a bunch of hooey, you are going to have to vote for a third party.
John McCain made it clear Monday in Portland that he plans to make climate change one of his top international priorities if he is elected President. He is even considering placing tariffs on India and China if they continue to ignore the problems, The New York Times reported.
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have both said they plan to lead the fight to dramatically reduce greenhouse gases. Since the effort inherently means reducing the United States’ dependence on fossil fuels the policy alternatives are looking better politically all the time.
“Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, or the precise timeline of global warming, we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring,” McCain “We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great.”
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Good news
This is good news indeed. It's only too bad that we've had a president for the last eight years who has all but ignored the problem.
There are 145,362.667 other important things he ignores...
that most of us are more worried about. We will all be dead then and some of us think is is part of the major excuse to ignore other, harder problems.
Shuffle, shuffle.