Posted on 08/26/2008 1:45:49 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
GOP adds global warming to its 2008 platform By Jackie Kucinich Posted: 08/26/08 04:34 PM [ET] The National Republican Party for the first time is expected to acknowledge global warming in its 2008 GOP Platform, according to a draft of the document.
“Increased atmospheric carbon has a warming effect on the earth,” the document said. “While the scope and long term consequences of this warming effect are the subject of ongoing research, we believe the United States should take measured and reasonable steps today.”
Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, is a strong proponent of tackling global warming and has co-authored legislation to address the issue.
In the GOP’s 2004 platform, the term "global warming" was completely absent.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Morons, anything to piss off conservatives, they will do.
How current is this? I was in a meeting today, but I could’ve sworn I picked up something on my Google reader that said they took out “Global Warming” and left “protect the environment.”
I think I’m going to be sick.
I hope you’re right, Corin. Cultic AlGorishness has no place in the GOP.
PC is a form of mental retardation.
“While the scope and long term consequences of this warming effect are the subject of ongoing research, we believe the United States should take measured and reasonable steps today.”
While I’m not happy that the GOP is buying into this, the above sounds a heck of a lot better than “We have a consensus, the debate is over!” and “We’re going to do a bunch of things that may or may not help, regardless of the consequences.”
And this is what Republicans would have us ENDORSE with our votes. What fools!
If the platform states that that global warming might exist, it should explain why I saw snow, the last two Easters, in Chicago.
Gee. I almost regret having left the GOP....I feel a great need to leave it AGAIN right now.
How stupid are these people?
LOL! Yeah, Deja vu all over again...
Selling one's soul to the devil in order to beat the devil does not seem to be much of a game plan to me...
McCain is going to blow this yet!!!
Caving in to enviromarxists is just as bad as caving in to illegals - he just doesn’t get it!!
Bunk.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
They are true appeasers, McCain has sided with the Rats so much they can’t think of how to attack him, let Bill Clintoon do it.
Are you friggin' idiots trying to be irrelevant losers for all time?
Stop the insanity and stand for facts!
The full statement:
“Increased atmospheric carbon is a result of the earth warming, such warming is part of a naturally occuring climate cycle. While the scope and long term consequences of this warming cycle are beneficial, we believe the United States should take measured and reasonable steps today to prepare for the inevitable cooling part of the climate cycle which will be the cause of massive starvation.”
LOL - I’d like them to explain how back in the mid-70s I was running around without a coat and no snow on the ground in Central Illinois (near Peoria) on Christmas Day! ;) Don’t ask me what year it was - I do know I could still ride the red flyer tricycle that my grandparents had for me at their house.
Global warming is such a joke. If it were man-made then why it is happening on other planets in our solar system without SUV’s!
“How stupid are these people?”
Even genius has its limits. Stupidity, unfortunately, does not.
“How stupid are these people?”
Even genius has its limits. Stupidity, unfortunately, does not.
Man, I’m getting a lot of double posts lately. What is going on, I wonder.
About five times, when I argued, with liberals, about global warming, I reminded them about the 1980 heat wave.
The 1980 United States heat wave was among the most devastating natural disasters in terms of deaths and destruction in U.S. history. The heat wave claimed at least 1,700 lives. Because of the massive drought, agricultural damage reached $20 billion. It is among the billion-dollar weather disasters listed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
A strong high pressure ridge in the central and southern United States allowed temperatures to soar to 90 °F, almost every day from June to September. The drought was also caused for this particular reason.
In Kansas City, Missouri, the high temperature went below 90 only twice and soared above 100 °F for 17 days straight. In Memphis, the temperature reached an all-time high of 108 °F, on July 13, 1980, part of a 15-day stretch of temperatures above 100 °F, that lasted from July 6–20, 1980.
I tell the other person that I don’t remember a heat wave that bad since 1980, and I ask how we can be having global warming now, although we didn’t have global warming, in 1980, when we were hotter. I haven’t found anyone who knows the answer.
Would the last conservative to leave please turn out the lights. Helllllooooooo?
More proof of my assertion, posted in various threads on the “Republic” .....
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I believe that McCain was picked by the leftist infested RNC to throw the election and marginalize the American right.
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Platform statements are near meaningless, put together by folks who love to hear themselves talk. Did anyone actually watch the CSPAN coverage with the platform committee today? Worse than watching paint dry.
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