Posted on 08/13/2014 9:08:45 AM PDT by jazusamo
Former President Carter says climate skeptics are the "biggest handicap" for the U.S. when it comes to acting on global warming.
“I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don’t believe in global warming,” Carter said Tuesday during
the American Renewable Energy Day summit in Aspen, Colo.
“I think they are going to change their position because of pressure from individuals, because the evidence of the ravages of global warming is already there," he added.
The 39th president expressed frustration with the administration and Congress on their lack of efforts to mitigate climate change, arguing that the U.S. is lagging behind other countries on the issue, the Aspen Times reports.
“I was a bit disappointed he took a wait and see approach during his first five or six years in office, but he’s moving now,” Carter said of President Obama.
Despite the administration's actions, Carter said, the U.S. is "right at the bottom."
“We still only have about 10 percent of our energy from renewables," he said. "So we have a tremendous opportunity to do what other countries have done that we haven’t tapped yet."
Carter said the U.S. should be a leader on climate change in the same way it is militarily, claiming aggressive leadership on global warming would put the country in the position of a real superpower.
“I think that we’re going to begin to realize that being a major superpower on Earth is not just who dominates economics and military,” he said. “I would say that one of the characteristics of a superpower is to take leadership on issues that could afflict the rest of the world, and I say climate change is one of those symbolic, but very tangibly important issues that would put the United States in the role of a true superpower.”
Carter also called for a tax on carbon pollution, which he says is "the only reasonable approach."
Ping :)
Hey Jimmie, do us all a favor and hold your breath.
There’s a nutcase in your mirror, Jimmah!
What did Jimmy do about global warming when he was president?
The Chief Nutcase speaks.
Ha. The peanut farmer is now calling names.
Funny.
You’re 89, Jimmah.
Just sayin’
Caused a gas shortage
Anybody else.notice that former Democrat presidents never quite get off the stage???
Based on what we see with Carter and Clinton, we may have decades ahead of us, listening to the pontifications of Obama after he leaves the White House.
Jimmy was always a mean spirited little Snopes, but his supporters believed his was the epitome of a Christian. Of course, most of them believe Bill Clinton was the best defender of women in America.
Put a sock in it, Mr. Peanut.
I cringe when I think about the narcissist carrying on for year with his I, Me and My’s.
I know that low information democrats believe glowbull warming is absolutely going to destroy us............ But do the democrats at the top really believe?
If it’s anyone’s fault it is Jimmy Carter’s. In 1978, he signed the National Climate Program into law to prevent the coming ice age.
http://archive.org/stream/nationalclimatep00unit/nationalclimatep00unit_djvu.txt
“Extreme climatic events in recent years have empha-
sized the central role of climate in human affairs. A series
of droughts, freezes, and other climatic anomalies in many
parts of the world in 1972 caused widespread crop failures.
Large purchases of North American grain by the Soviet
Union and other nations had serious economic repercus-
sions. Severe winter weather in the eastern and midwestern
United States in early 1977 caused many schools, indus-
trial plants, and businesses to close, because not enough
fuel was available for heating. The “Winter of ‘77” also
brought frost damage to the Florida citrus crop and serious
water shortages to drought-stricken regions of the western
United States.”
You’re 89, Jimmah.
Aaaahhhhh, Jimmy...when I was in elementary school you got the whole country all worked up about “global cooling, second coming of the ice age and we sat in long lines for gasoline,” I’m kinda think’n you and your party are the F’n nutcases.
So being a democrat doesn’t mean you have to have facts on your side just has to be the latest snake oil you can profit from...hhuummm.
“But do the democrats at the top really believe?”
You will have to ask Al Gore that question .... if you can find him.
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