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Posted on 08/26/2008 3:32:52 PM PDT by Crazieman
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The Republican platform may include a first-ever plank on global warming, an examination of a draft document indicated.
"Increased atmospheric carbon has a warming effect on the Earth," The Hill reported the draft document as saying. "While the scope and long term consequences of this warming effect are the subject of ongoing research, we believe the United States should take measured and reasonable steps today."
Sen. John McCain, poised to become the party's presidential nominee next week during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., is a proponent of tackling global warming.
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
Up your meds please, you're clearly not taking enough.
Midsummer, '07
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Principles are *not* relative.
McKennedy barely got my vote back (from no vote for either idiot) after his slaughtering of the Obamaloon. However, if this is in the Repub’s platform, at least I’ll not have to waste time voting in November.
Well that's a good way to candy coat this liberal GOP horse crap.
A strong argument for voting Democratic, except the Democratic greenhouse gas platform (and its candidate) are infinitely worse.
Q: What is the difference between Al Gore and a bag of fertilizer?
A: The bag.
Global Warming Gone [Stephen Spruiell] National Review
As promised, the Republican platform subcommittee on energy took up the global-warming section of the 2008 draft about an hour ago. Long story short: It’s now a very different document. I’ll have more after I’ve had a chance to talk to some of the participants in the debate. To give you an idea of how drastically the document changed, consider the first amendment the subcommittee took up, which passed:
The section was titled, “Global Warming and Environmental Protection.” Now it’s just, “Environmental Protection.”
08/26 02:19 PM
Platform Committee: No Ethanol Mandates [Stephen Spruiell]
The last sentence in the economy section of the working draft of the Republican platform states, “The U.S. government should end mandates for ethanol and let the free market work.” In full committee, the co-chairman of the energy subcommittee attempted to strip the sentence from the economy section, arguing that statements on biofuel policy properly belong in the energy section.
Delegate after delegate spoke in turn against stripping the statement out. “This is a free-market issue,” Jeff Grossman of Oregon argued. Grossman said that when the latest round of ethanol mandates kicked in, food prices in Oregon went up and gas mileage went down. Several of his colleagues echoed his complaints.
Only one delegate defended ethanol mandates out of seven or eight who spoke. Strong Republican-Party opposition to ethanol mandates is new. President Bush still supports the mandated consumption of ethanol, which was enacted by a Republican Congress in 2005 and increased by a Democratic Congress with Republican support in 2007.
After so many of his colleagues spoke out against his amendment, the energy subcommittee co-chair respectfully withdrew it, and the statement stayed in the platform.
08/26 05:52 PM
Oh For the Love... [Stephen Spruiell]
The Republican platform committee just added language supporting the Internet gambling ban. Several delegates, notably Carmen Amedori of Maryland, offered sound conservative defenses of the platform’s authors’ decision to drop the ban from the working draft, but an amendment to add it back passed resoundingly.
08/26 06:26 PM
That would be the last straw!
After 50 years of being registered Republican, voting for Republicans, and spending 18 years on the State Central Committee, and runing for the State Assemblu at the partys request, i’ll be changing my registration.
The Republican has gone to hell!
You’re an obama supporter! Waaaaaaah!
Socialism-R is okay! Socialism-D is not!
/sarc
The RNC Meets to Draft Their Platform: Sparks Fly on the Issue of Illegal Immigration
by Shushannah Walshe
Now, "The better of two evils" argument is being drug into this issues?
Ya know, they ought to replace the Republican elephant logo with a picture of some easily led, slack jawed citizen with a clothes pin on his nose.
Well of course it will! Every other liberal agenda has been shoved down our throats by McCain so no one should be surprised.....
Unfortunately there are too many BHObama haters in the democratic party who are going to vote for McLame than McLame haters who will either stay home or vote third party. I suspect McLame knows this so thats why he is confident that while his liberal policies will piss off the real conservatives, he could care less because of the BHO's who are going to cross over........
Global warming may or may not be a reality.
What is reality, is that we have absolutely no means available to us to alter either the course of warming or cooling. We may only adapt to the conditions as they arise.
It’s getting hotter? Change the distribution of crops that are grown, from tropical areas to what were once more temperate zones. Move the more temperate-zone crops to what was formerly the Arctic. Put plant geneticists to work in adapting plants to produce under conditions much hotter than is now common in the tropics.
Whoops, called the trends in climate change wrong? Then stand by with the development and propagation of plant life that can endure and thrive under the new, changed, colder conditions, like growing winter wheat in Georgia or Alabama.
Conditions overly dry? Then use desalination methods to convert sea water, in HUGE quantities, to sweet, potable water, fit for human (and plant) consumption, and pipe it inland, to make deserts bloom.
Conditions overly wet, and subject to monsoon-like rain patterns? Then grow plants adapted to these conditions already, like rice and sugar cane, to feed the millions grown dependent on the nutrition raised from the soil.
In every one of these various projections, you shall note that I have mentioned plants as the underlying solution to the problems raised by global climate change. Plants, and their ability to adapt to the changing conditions, are our complement in securing viability on this planet. Carbon dioxide is the medium through which the energy falling upon this planet each and every day is converted to that huge storehouse of sequestered energy within carbon-based life forms. Take the carbon dioxide out of the equation, and soon, plants die. As plants die, paradoxically, they decompose once again into - carbon dioxide. This restores the slim balance of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, so plants STOP dying.
The reality is, that no matter how aggressively we try to either INCREASE carbon dioxide, the growth of young, green plants will greedily reabsorb it, and if we manage, somehow, to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by human effort, it will mean exactly squat in terms of how much carbon dioxide is produced by non-anthropogenic means.
But taxation to prevent the “consequences” of global warming is a wonderful club to wave over the heads of those who are non-compliant with the dictates of the “smarter” people.
In 2000, Al Gore spoke of “risky schemes” in addressing some of the policies that George W. Bush advocated. This is probably one of the “riskiest schemes” yet perpetrated upon the human species by other humans. First, because it never addresses the problem at which it pretends to be directed, and secondly, by diverting so many of the resources of the world, almost guarantees we fall into some other much more nettlesome and deadly trap of our own making.
Poverty, and especially self-induced poverty, is no way to go through life.
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lol...Is this a smoke screen for the GOP bending over for the Global warming deal?
Let me guess, the RNC is behind closed doors arguing which is the best way to bury the on going nationwide immigration disaster, now that they've stood by for years, gawking at up to 40 million illegals and their anchor babies strolling into our country?
No Smoking Hot Spot (The Australian)
Spending trillions to fix a problem that doesn't exist is insanity.
It's going to be hard not to raise taxes while spending trillions too.
Global Warming Gone [Stephen Spruiell] National Review
As promised, the Republican platform subcommittee on energy took up the global-warming section of the 2008 draft about an hour ago. Long story short: It’s now a very different document. I’ll have more after I’ve had a chance to talk to some of the participants in the debate. To give you an idea of how drastically the document changed, consider the first amendment the subcommittee took up, which passed:
The section was titled, “Global Warming and Environmental Protection.” Now it’s just, “Environmental Protection.”
08/26 02:19 PM
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