Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/17/2010 9:31:59 PM PST by pissant
Last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — who is facing a primary challenge from former right-wing GOP congressman J.D. Hayworth — played along with Fox News host Sean Hannity’s uninformed idea that the recent snow storms in the mid-Atlantic region disprove that the earth’s climate is changing. “I think they made some movie that showed that the earth was going to freeze over as a result of global warming. I never quite understood that,” McCain said.
Yesterday, a local Arizona conservative talk radio host told McCain that “80 percent” of global warming science “is based on fraud and misinformation.” Despite having previously refuted such nonsense publicly, McCain again remained silent. Pandering to the far right, the Arizona senator later said he “never” supported capping carbon emissions:
Q: If we knew then what we know today about these scientists and this fraud, would you still be in favor of capping carbon emissions at 2000 levels?
MCCAIN: I’ve never favored it at a certain level. I’ve favored reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the good of — I mean we all know that greenhouse gases are bad! But I’ve said, in order to achieve that we have to have nuclear power as a component of it.
Listen here:
In fact, McCain has actually co-sponsored cap-and-trade legislation. “We need a successor to Kyoto, a cap-and-trade system that delivers the necessary environmental impact in an economically responsible manner,” McCain wrote in a 2008 op-ed. And during the his 2008 presidential campaign, he delivered a major speech on his plan to address climate change. “A cap-and-trade policy will send a signal that will be heard and welcomed all across the American economy,” he said in the speech. And he specifically outlined his plan to cap carbon “at a certain level”:
McCAIN: We will cap emissions according to specific goals, measuring progress by reference to past carbon emissions. By the year 2012, we will seek a return to 2005 levels of emission…by 2020, a return to 1990 levels…and so on until we have achieved at least a reduction of sixty percent below 1990 levels by the year 2050.
McCain vows to fight global warming
Email|Link|Comments (38)Posted by John Yemma January 7, 2008 04:30 PM
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff
CONCORD, N.H. — In his final push for a primary victory, Senator John McCain arrived here this afternoon and made a pitch that might have surprised voters: He cast himself as the environmentalist of the presidential campaign.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/01/mccain_vows_to.html
McCain’s Lonely War on Global Warming
Despite mountains of evidence, the U.S. is the only industrialized nation without a global warming policy. McCain’s about-face sheds some light on a GOP loathe to admit that there is a problem.
April 1, 2004 |
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Matthew Stembridge graduated from Dartmouth College in May of 1999. He returned the next winter wearing red tights over orange long johns, a red knit stocking cap, yellow-painted galoshes that reached midcalf, and a red curtain — his cape — draped around his neck. “We were doing this global warming campaign for the presidential primaries, young people all across New Hampshire,” says Stembridge. “I was Captain Climate, sent back from the future to educate our leaders so they could avert disaster.”
http://www.alternet.org/story/18283/
Well he is in his 70s. It is possible he has forgotten a few things that he’s said on the campaign trail.
Of course I don’t mind correcting him on those points.
The gall of this fool is amazing. Yet the GOP brass clings to him like poop on a shoe
McCain is just nuts!
McCain raps Bush on global warming
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain called on President Bush Tuesday to do more to fight global warming. McCain, R-Ariz., pointed to a study on rising Arctic temperatures as further evidence that changes in the earth’s climate aren’t being addressed seriously enough.
From usatoday 2004
Juan’s chickens are coming home to roost...
John McCain: Environmental Activist?
Jon E. Dougherty, NewsMax.com
Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2004
Without question, environmental issues — some say environmental “extremism” — is definitely the domain of liberals and Democrats. But now, a noted Republican, known as a maverick at heart, says he’s throwing his weight behind the so-called “global warming” movement.
His name is John McCain, and he says he’ll attack the issue as strenuously as he fought money in politics.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/4/13/233753.shtml
And apparently, a dunce.
eee-gads, McCain’s nose is growing as I type.
JD could produce some great TV spots of McCain then and now statements on various issues. Hope he pulls in the money to run a lot of them.
He pocket pal Graham-nesty is pushing Cap & Trade.
His other pal Charlene Crist held a Global Warming summit the first week he was gov in Florida (seriously).
A real pity, but they made their beds........
Leni
Like Gingrich, he tried to jump on the “popular” side of the issue without knowing WTF he was talking about. Well, I don’t forgive it. Government is full of ignorant self-important clowns like that. Time for him to retire.
When do Democrats, no matter how radical, get characterized as a matter of course as "left-wing"?
IMO, that passing swipe at Conservatives really dilutes the weight of any point a writer was making.
That sort of subtle description is routine in the liberal media, and not by accident.
It helps sway opinions and attitudes.
I mean we all know that greenhouse gases are bad!
The Greenhouse effect makes life on Earth possible. More carbon emissions will lead to a greener Earth.
While I supported him during the last election he must explain whether he was duped or not. If he wasn’t then he was in agreement with Government control for a fraudulent reason. This will take him out. I’m only getting older.
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