Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Meet Captain Climate -McCain says he'll battle global warming as fiercely as he fought money ..
Natural Resources Defense Council - The Earth's Best Defense ^ | Spring 2005 | Bill McKibben

Posted on 04/18/2005 3:21:31 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-72 next last
To: Cincinatus' Wife; brityank; TonyWojo; AAABEST; B4Ranch; editor-surveyor; countrydummy; ...

Bill McKibben is a propagandist from way back.


21 posted on 04/18/2005 4:14:03 AM PDT by sauropod (De gustibus non est disputandum)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Waco

He was elected to Congress 1982.

In 1986, he was elected to the United States Senate.

I think twenty three years is more than enough pay back for being a POW.


22 posted on 04/18/2005 4:14:23 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife
John McCain says he'll battle global warming as fiercely as he fought money in politics.

One word ... $oros.
23 posted on 04/18/2005 4:19:47 AM PDT by maggief
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

Is this guy certifiable or what!


24 posted on 04/18/2005 4:21:08 AM PDT by poobear
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife
Captain Climate? I thought his superhero name was Pandering Prince.
25 posted on 04/18/2005 4:21:20 AM PDT by Ghengis (Alexander was a wuss!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sgtbono2002

Kid's Club....Cool Captain Climate is off for the summer. He'll be back in the autumn to spread the good news on earth-friendly action!!

26 posted on 04/18/2005 4:22:28 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

Captain Clymer?


27 posted on 04/18/2005 4:24:18 AM PDT by MortMan (Quiet reflection does not involve a mirror.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife
Mr. Munbles just keeps being the splinter (or is that sphincter?) he is.

Where is the mouse? This lion is in need of help. ;)

28 posted on 04/18/2005 4:25:37 AM PDT by G.Mason (If you are broken ... it is because you are brittle.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ghengis
Captain Climate's [aka The Pandering Prince's] 2008 Running Mate .......
UNDERDOG


29 posted on 04/18/2005 4:27:47 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: MortMan
***........His support of legislation to curb climate-change came slowly, as the science became clearer, he contends. "It's been gradual, over the years, as the evidence has accumulated." But evidence of that commitment is hard to find before the 2000 campaign -- he wasn't giving speeches or writing op-eds on the topic, and he certainly wasn't sponsoring legislation. His views on other green issues were pretty abysmal too; the League of Conservation Voters consistently ranked him below 20 percent in its annual survey of political greenness. During the 2000 primary campaigns, when global-warming activists like Stembridge began targeting him, he was giving the standard Republican line: The data are iffy, the costs are too high, we shouldn't do anything yet. That was in late December.

But then, at every rally and every town hall forum, people stood up to ask McCain about global warming.....***

And he saw a way to get votes. Pure and simple.

30 posted on 04/18/2005 4:29:08 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Diogenesis

Is that Algore and the lovely Tipper?


31 posted on 04/18/2005 4:30:05 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

Too bad he won't battle for judges and the southern border of his state.


32 posted on 04/18/2005 4:33:52 AM PDT by Lord Basil (Hate isn't a family value; it's a liberal one.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: G.Mason
You can't buy laughs like these:

***....The same group of activists was also tailing the other contenders in 2000, without the same result. When Bush personnel wouldn't let them into his tightly scripted events, for instance, they stood outside chanting, "Houston: We have a problem." But it clearly didn't do much good.

Perhaps we're asking the question the wrong way around. It's possible that there's nothing so odd about John McCain, no need to explain his conversion as some kind of miracle. In his belief that global warming is a serious problem, and in his desire to do something about it, he's in agreement with the vast majority of American voters, the legislators of every other industrialized country, and virtually every climatologist on planet Earth. (His proposed legislation, in fact, is far weaker than the weakest laws of the European nations.) Maybe the better question is: How did the other Republicans in Washington get so…odd? How did the party of T.R. become so anti-environmental?

Consider, for instance, Senator James Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who chairs the Committee on Environment and Public Works. He didn't just vote against McCain-Lieberman -- he took to the floor during the debate over the bill to describe global warming as "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." Shortly thereafter, he led an unofficial delegation of eight Republican congressmen to talks in Milan on ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. Though President Bush had long since pulled the United States out of the agreement, Inhofe still thought it was important to make clear to the Europeans "that we are not going to ratify Kyoto." Indeed, he lectured them on his collection of scientific "evidence" disproving climate change -- a threadbare assortment of discredited studies that fly in the face of the mountain of peer-reviewed evidence assembled in the last decade, not to mention the observable trends gaining momentum across the planet (glacial systems in rapid retreat, Arctic ice thinning precipitously, all 10 of the warmest years on record in the last two decades). For some reason, the Europeans were not impressed -- perhaps because they still remembered last summer's record heat wave, which baked to death more than 10,000 residents of France and Belgium. "They don't want to listen," Inhofe told nationally syndicated columnist James Glassman. "They were zombies." ....***

33 posted on 04/18/2005 4:34:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: Lord Basil

Too bad indeed.

He stands only for reelection.


34 posted on 04/18/2005 4:35:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

He will be equally successful, too. "Money out of politics"; Gawd, that's funny!


35 posted on 04/18/2005 4:37:17 AM PDT by thelastvirgil (Help stamp out incumbent politicians: Public enemy number one.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife
McCain looks more and more like the morphing Algore.

But if elected, he would be more like Jimmy Carter because neither party will follow his lead.

36 posted on 04/18/2005 4:37:55 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (9-11 is your Peace Dividend)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

I guess Saint John forgets Mr. Keating. Now it's only the Keating Four.


37 posted on 04/18/2005 4:39:02 AM PDT by Beckwith (I knew Churchill, and Ward Churchill is no Churchill . . . he ain't no Indian either . . .)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Erik Latranyi

Great point.


38 posted on 04/18/2005 4:41:48 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife
There is no global warming that can be fought, unless one thinks he is God. The cycles of the earth are working as they were intended to work. Since it got colder from 1930 to 1970 we are just recovering. If one reviews the real data it would seem that it is getting colder not warmer. As a matter of fact it was much warmer in the 10th and 11th centuries in Europe that it is now. Then it got colder and on it goes. The computer models that are used to perdict the warming of the globe can be made to spew out anything that the person who made them wants. It is all a GUESS, just like the weather for next year or next month.
39 posted on 04/18/2005 4:42:17 AM PDT by YOUGOTIT
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Beckwith; All
From the Captain's Quarters site***In order to understand John McCain's present circumstances, it may be helpful to recall his entry into the Senate, tarnished with scandal over the savings and loan system collapse in the late 1980s. John McCain had been a recipient of over $100,000 in donations from Charles Keating, the owner of Lincoln Savings and Loan and American Continental Corporation. Keating used the S&L to float out bad bonds in ACC, resulting in a $2 billion loss and bailout from the FSLIC and the loss of millions of dollars to ordinary shareholders in ACC.

McCain ran interference for Keating, as the Arizona Republic's Bill Muller wrote:

In 1982, during McCain's first run for the House, Keating held a fund-raiser for him, collecting more than $11,000 from 40 employees of American Continental Corp. McCain would spend more than $550,000 to win the primary and the general election. .............

40 posted on 04/18/2005 4:44:35 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-72 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson