Posted on 05/13/2008 9:14:50 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain called Monday for reductions in carbon emissions and criticized the Bush administration for failing to lead the fight against climate change.
"We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. … We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great," the Arizona Republican said in a speech delivered at a wind-energy facility in Portland, Ore. "The most relevant question is whether our own government is equal to the challenge."
McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, proposed a "cap-and-trade" system to reduce greenhouse gases and allow the sale of rights to excess emissions by firms that reduce their own emissions. ...
Such a system would "change the dynamic of our energy economy" by giving companies incentives to invest in alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, nuclear, clean coal, biomass and biofuels, McCain said, providing the United States with an energy supply "that is safe, secure, diverse and domestic."
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McCain's proposal falls short of those of Democratic contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. They both called for reducing emissions by 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, in line with what's recommended by most scientists, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
"To his credit, Senator McCain wants to do something serious about global warming, but his proposal falls far short of what the science says we need to do today," said Gene Karpinski, president of the nonpartisan League of Conservation Voters. McCain's lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters is 24 percent. That compares with 87 percent for Clinton and 86 percent for Obama.
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He's a cap-n-trader to boot.. ready to move us into the post-carbon age..
Such a system would "change the dynamic of our energy economy" by giving companies incentives to invest in alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, nuclear, clean coal, biomass and biofuels, McCain said, providing the United States with an energy supply "that is safe, secure, diverse and domestic."
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Is he one of Moonbeam's love children or one of Timothy Leary's?
I hope it snows when he hikes Rattlesnake today....and, gee...what if he got pneumonia?
The John McCain campaign strategy: Run against the Bush Administration...not the Democrat candidate.
I am completely unimpressed.
Stop exhaling, John.
McCain is such a jerk.
The fact that he is “the better candidate” does not bode well for this country.
“McCain calls for greenhouse-gas cuts...”
STEP ONE: Shut your mouth.
Yes, underwhelmed to be sure.
you may have something there! at least he’ll get ‘press’ that way.....otherwise, the press will just ‘bush him off’ (zero air time).
He could have blasted the Dems for voting today against drilling in the Artic.....he is just not up to being president!!
I’m supposed to hold my nose and vote for this moron? I was leaning that way but no more...
Europe is in the midst of that experience {McCain's Cap and Trade Program}now under the Kyoto Protocol, and most of its reductions so far have been illusory.
As long as it doesn’t seriously damage our economy, who cares? the less oil we use for energy the better. That stuff is more valuable as chemical feedstock anyhow. Build a hundred nuke plants I say.
I'm shocked, I tell you! SHOCKED!!!
What a pathetic, disgusting POE!
God save America...only YOU can!
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Just drink up, shut up and vote for McCain.
“We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great”
I wonder what he thinks about the internal combustion engine.
The problem is that he is ignoring the very large numbers of scientists who are arguably more credible that hold a considerably more (dare I say) conservative view.
Either McCain is being led around by the nose on this or he's pandering at the long-term expense of the country. Which is worse?
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