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Carbon Copy Coalition
Tech Central Station ^ | 04/24/2003 | Jon Reisman

Posted on 04/24/2003 10:10:23 AM PDT by farmfriend

Carbon Copy Coalition

By Jon Reisman

The state by state effort to implement the Kyoto protocol came to Concord, New Hampshire this week as the state's environmental groups launched the "Carbon Coalition" to keep the issue on the front burner and stir the political, policy and propaganda pot.

The Coalition opened with a typical apocalyptic salvo: "Global warming threatens public health, the economy and the environment in our state and across the nation," said Coalition co-chair Republican state representative Ted Leach.


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A second barrage from co-chair and former state Democratic Party chair Joseph Keefe subtly appealed for more leadership: " New Hampshire was the first state in the nation to adopt legislation curbing carbon dioxide pollution. In addition, the New England governors have embraced ambitious goals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions."

A host of Kyotophile NGO's created the Carbon Coalition, including lead coordinator Cool Air - Clean Planet as well as Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, Appalachian Mountain Club, Audubon Society of New Hampshire and New Hampshire Public Interest Research Group. Academics at the University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth are also included.

The Coalition claims to be "non-partisan" and includes a number of "green" Republicans in the New England tradition of Senators Jim Jeffords of Vermont (now an independent) and Maine's Olympia Snowe. The climate change debate is a bit of a touchy and unsettled subject in New Hampshire political circles these days. Freshman Republican Congressman Jeb Bradley sponsored the carbon regulation bill as a state representative. He fared somewhat better than the other primary advocate: former Democratic governor Jeanne Shaheen, who lost a U.S. Senate bid to Kyoto opponent John Sununu. Sununu beat former Environment and Public Works chair Bob Smith in a tight primary. Smith had catered to the green agenda at some cost to his political base.

The Carbon Coalition has three targets: public opinion, President Bush and Governor Craig Benson. The environmental left believes, with historical justification, that policy, political and fund-raising success depend on continuing to scare Americans on environmental issues, and in that sense, this new effort might be more accurately called the carbon copy coalition.

The most interesting target is Governor Craig Benson. A wealthy cable TV entrepreneur with some conservative and free market credentials, Benson has been largely reticent on global warming. He has so far declined to either endorse or reject the constitutionally suspect New England Governors/Eastern Canadian Premiers Climate Change agreement signed by his predecessor. New Hampshire's gubernatorially appointed but traditionally independent new Attorney General (think Warren Rudman) has so far declined to join New England's other AG's in suing the Bush administration to list carbon dioxide as a pollutant and regulate it. If Benson decides to support President Bush and put the kibosh on New Hampshire's Kyoto implementation, the whole New England effort may start to unravel.

Kyotophiles need a compliant New Hampshire Governor in order to successfully push additional carbon regulation and continue to bash President Bush. We should find out soon if they have one.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carbon; enviralists; environment; g; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; government; kyoto; pbalwarming

1 posted on 04/24/2003 10:10:24 AM PDT by farmfriend
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To: Carry_Okie; forester; sasquatch; B4Ranch; SierraWasp; hedgetrimmer; christie; comwatch; ...
ping
2 posted on 04/24/2003 10:11:10 AM PDT by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: farmfriend
Don't blame President Bush for the problems with carbon emissions. He tried to enact open-market reforms involving emissions credits and the ability to trade or sell those credits (a method proven successful elsewhere), but the Democrats and their radical environmentalist friends killed it because they refuse to compromise. It wouldn't be good for fundraising if Bush was seen helping the environment, now would it?

The solution to pollution is more capitalism, not more regulations.
3 posted on 04/24/2003 10:21:40 AM PDT by Buckeye Bomber
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To: *Global Warming Hoax; *Enviralists
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list
4 posted on 04/24/2003 10:21:43 AM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Ideas have consequences)
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To: farmfriend
Global warming has just been terrible this year. In fact, last winter North America had the deepest total snowcover ever recorded (topping 1977-78). Also, the stock market dropped @100 points today. Damn that evile warming trend.
5 posted on 04/24/2003 10:23:14 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: farmfriend
These folks just won't quit! Pitiful!
6 posted on 04/24/2003 10:26:13 AM PDT by countrydummy
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To: farmfriend
Will we ever be rid of these 'people'?!!!
7 posted on 04/24/2003 10:35:42 AM PDT by Lee Heggy (Spare yet effective and surprisingly well-coloured.)
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To: farmfriend
BTTT!!!!!!
8 posted on 04/24/2003 10:38:06 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: ohioman
It has never been clear to me that global warming is necessarily a bad thing. In fact, the Middle Ages were probably warmer than the current climate throughout the world today. Besides, most of these pseudo-scientists fail to take into consideration one of the biggest factors involved in climate change - the sun. And the second biggest factor is that this is a planet with a huge amount of water in its atmosphere, and liquid water covering 75% of the surface. To raise the temperature of all this water even l° C. would take such a gargantuan amount of release of fossil energy, that the entire land surface would have to be ablaze.
9 posted on 04/24/2003 10:43:43 AM PDT by alloysteel
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To: farmfriend
That's one way around....since there is a prez in office that understands the implications of Ky(oh-no)to try and take us State by State.....

10 posted on 04/24/2003 10:55:50 AM PDT by EBUCK (FIRE!....rounds downrange! http://www.azfire.org)
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To: Lee Heggy
No.
11 posted on 04/24/2003 10:56:18 AM PDT by EBUCK (FIRE!....rounds downrange! http://www.azfire.org)
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To: farmfriend
Five unanswered questions about global warming...

Is global warming really happening?

If global warming is really happening, is it a bad thing?

If global warming is really happening, and it is a bad thing, are humans causing it?

If global warming is really happening, and it is a bad thing, and humans are causing it, will Kyoto fix it?

If global warming is really happening, and it is a bad thing, and humans are causing it, and Kyoto fix it, will the costs outweigh the benefits?

All five questions would need to be answered affitmitively before Kyoto would make sense. As it is none of them have.
12 posted on 04/24/2003 10:59:51 AM PDT by Hugin
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To: Hugin
WELL PUT!
13 posted on 04/24/2003 11:03:34 AM PDT by EBUCK (FIRE!....rounds downrange! http://www.azfire.org)
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To: EBUCK
Correction, in the last question I meant to say will the benefits outweigh the costs. But you get the drift.
14 posted on 04/24/2003 11:13:34 AM PDT by Hugin
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To: Hugin
Either one works. :-)

People act as if global warming is as self-evident as the sun being in the sky. They ask us to just assume all 5 of those things you asked about, and don't present much evidence at all, if any. It's sad really. We might as well kill our economy for the purpose of stopping ghost hauntings by their logic.
15 posted on 04/24/2003 3:02:44 PM PDT by Buckeye Bomber
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To: farmfriend
bttt
16 posted on 04/24/2003 4:42:56 PM PDT by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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