[ishabibble]

I think Newt makes a very good point about not letting the Leftist movement own the topic. Conservatives will get mowed down on this (i.e. the polar bears) if they don't have a say in the discussion. Also, since China and India are the world's biggest polluters, why not have a voice of reason demanding that they be held to the same standards as the U.S.? The HateAmerica crowd uses “climate change” as a truncheon to beat down any reasonable argument on energy Independence, nuclear power, or oil refineries. We can all just forget about our own oil if they continue to be the sole voice in the matter.

This is not a situation set in stone. Conservatives have to get in the game if we want to break the stranglehold OPEC has over us. Let's have the damn discussion. Let's see more about the father of the Greenpeace movement now advocating for nuclear energy. Let's push back against the enviro-whackos who want us sitting in the freezing cold dark of the 7th century with their carbon credits and one sheet of toilet paper.

It's a Chicken Little world we are living in, it's time to inject some reason into it.

[Oldhunk]

We let the left own the issue because most Repulicans are too timid to speak the facts. We’ve had no warming in nearly ten years and the same guys who were predicting catastrophic warming are now saying we are going into a cooling period for some ten years. So if we are going to “do something” about climate change, does that mean we now try to arrest the cooling? I’m sorry, but both McCain and Newt have their heads where the sun don’t shine on this issue. McCain is talking cap and trade.

With the left firmly in command, there is no hope that we will start drilling or expand nuclear. Out energy policy has been reduced to begging for Saudi oil and switching to kiddie cars. It will not be pretty.