FACTBOX: presidential candidates on climate change (McCain: I know that climate change is real...)

Rooters ^ | Thu Mar 20, 2008 | Deborah Zabarenko

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Here's what leading presidential candidates have said about climate change and energy policies, and what they want to do.

REPUBLICAN ARIZONA SEN. JOHN MCCAIN: "I know that climate change is real ... we've got to address it, we can do it with technology, with cap and trade, with capitalist and free enterprise motivation." Co-authored bill to cut emissions by 65 percent by 2050, favors unspecified fuel efficiency increase and overall energy efficiency.

DEMOCRATIC NEW YORK SEN. HILLARY CLINTON: "We need to start on a path to slow, stop and reverse the growth of greenhouse gas emissions." Supports an 80 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050, 40 mile-per-gallon fuel efficiency standard by 2017 and 10 percent cut in energy consumption by 2020.

DEMOCRATIC ILLINOIS SEN. BARACK OBAMA: "For the sake of our security, our economy, our jobs and our planet, the age of oil must end in our time." Supports 80 percent cut in carbon emissions by 2050, 50 mile-per-gallon fuel efficiency standard in 18 years and 50 percent cut in energy intensity -- the amount of power used as it relates to economic growth product -- by 2030.

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I think you might have misunderstood what I was trying to get across.

I did not think I needed to apply the “sarc” label to it.

I know precisely what I meant. And it isn’t pretty.

[ari-freedom]

yeah... crist is just not going to work.

[ari-freedom]

my take on AGW? I think it is probably real. I don’t think the debate should be over. Science is always supposed to be a tentative process.
But you have to actually have a scientific debate and not simply reject the idea simply because some people turned it into a new religion.
As a conservative, I would actually expect AGW because there are no property rights for air and no free market. One would expect air to be a dumping free for all.

[Mogollon]

No bill concerning global-warming or amnesty can reach the presidents desk, because any of the current candidates for POTUS will sign it. (Tagline applies).

[Bigoleelephant]

They were the ones to declare the debate over not me. Al Gore has been asked to debate many times. He has yet to debate anyone.

I have no doubt that global warming is happening but it is most likely not from CO2 emissions but normal weather patterns which have been happening for a long time. The one fact that is most telling to me is that CO2 levels rise after the temperature goes up. In all cause and effect relationships I've seen, whatever happens after is usually the effect not the cause, hence the name. Wouldn't the CO2 levels rise and then the temperature go up if the temperature rise was a result of the CO2 abundance?

Also, any chart I've ever seen shows no correlation between CO2 levels and temperature. However, they do show a direct correlation between solar activity and temperature.

There is just far too much science not jiving with what the global warmers are saying. It would be like saying every time the children go back to school the leaves fall off the trees.

I would not consider myself a scientist; although I have a degree in Biology and minors in Chemistry and Physics, none of which I actually use. I am familiar with the scientific method. I just don't know how many of these global warmers are.

[Bull Market]

“At least he supports the troops and would be tough on terror.”

Uh...no.

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