Posted on 08/13/2014 9:08:45 AM PDT by jazusamo
Former President Carter says climate skeptics are the "biggest handicap" for the U.S. when it comes to acting on global warming.
“I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don’t believe in global warming,” Carter said Tuesday during
the American Renewable Energy Day summit in Aspen, Colo.
“I think they are going to change their position because of pressure from individuals, because the evidence of the ravages of global warming is already there," he added.
The 39th president expressed frustration with the administration and Congress on their lack of efforts to mitigate climate change, arguing that the U.S. is lagging behind other countries on the issue, the Aspen Times reports.
“I was a bit disappointed he took a wait and see approach during his first five or six years in office, but he’s moving now,” Carter said of President Obama.
Despite the administration's actions, Carter said, the U.S. is "right at the bottom."
“We still only have about 10 percent of our energy from renewables," he said. "So we have a tremendous opportunity to do what other countries have done that we haven’t tapped yet."
Carter said the U.S. should be a leader on climate change in the same way it is militarily, claiming aggressive leadership on global warming would put the country in the position of a real superpower.
“I think that we’re going to begin to realize that being a major superpower on Earth is not just who dominates economics and military,” he said. “I would say that one of the characteristics of a superpower is to take leadership on issues that could afflict the rest of the world, and I say climate change is one of those symbolic, but very tangibly important issues that would put the United States in the role of a true superpower.”
Carter also called for a tax on carbon pollution, which he says is "the only reasonable approach."
Skeptics include all those who have been looking out their windows for the past 17 years.
Harlan Pepper: I used to be able to name every nut that there was. And it used to drive my mother crazy, because she used to say, "Harlan Pepper, if you don't stop naming nuts," and the joke was that we lived in Pine Nut, and I think that's what put it in my mind at that point. So she would hear me in the other room, and she'd just start yelling. I'd say, "Peanut. Hazelnut. Cashew nut. Macadamia nut." That was the one that would send her into going crazy. She'd say, "Would you stop naming nuts!" And Hubert used to be able to make the sound, he couldn't talk, but he'd go "rrrawr rrawr" and that sounded like Macadamia nut. Pine nut, which is a nut, but it's also the name of a town. Pistachio nut. Red pistachio nut. Natural, all natural white pistachio nut.The only "nut" he missed is the Carterisanut!
Excuse me, Mr. president, but you and your AGW co-conspiritors are the nutcases.
Hey, it WORKED! < /sarc >
Jimmah obviously still smarting from his recent relegation to the second worst POTUS ever.
take leadership on issues that could afflict the rest of the world,....Like ebola?
Isn’t this the same Peanuthead that is afraid of rabbits and believes Hamas has the right to bomb innocent people in Israel just because they are Jews?
Not criticising or anything, I was aghast that a cashew is a seed from the cashew apple. The apple makes good wine, just too delicate to ship very far.
The daughter of MrD’s CA cousin used to work for algore but I heard she quit when he stopped paying her salary. We got a huge laugh about that. :D
If she was still working for him I might have been able to get in contact with him....... not that I ever would.
Jimmy’s nylon panties in a twist, need Baptist exorcist!
It's almost like they're crazy narcissists...
It was tough getting jimmy to sit still during the “taping”...
Thank you.
Jimmy isn’t a Christian. Islam is his favorite religion.
They are!
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