Posted on 01/23/2012 3:42:35 AM PST by cartan
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP)—Four years after the GOP’s rallying cry became “drill, baby, drill,” environmental issues have barely registered a blip in this Republican presidential primary.
That’s likely to change as the race turns to Florida.
The candidates’ positions on environmental regulation, global warming as well as clean air and water are all but certain to get attention ahead of the Jan. 31 primary in a state where the twin issues of offshore oil drilling and Everglades restoration are considered mandatory topics for discussion.
“It’s almost like eating fried cheese in Iowa,” said Jerry Karnas of the Everglades Foundation. Drilling has long been banned off Florida’s coasts because of fears that a spill would foul its beaches, wrecking the tourism industry, while the federal and state governments are spending billions to clean the Everglades.
Though most expect the candidates to express support for Everglades restoration—as Mitt Romney did in his 2008 campaign—environmentalists are noting a further rightward shift overall among the GOP field. The candidates have called for fewer environmental regulations, questioned whether global warming is a hoax and criticized the agency that implements and enforces clean air and water regulations.
“A cycle ago, there were people who actually believed in solving some of these problems,” said Navin Nayak of the League of Conservation Voters. “Now we’re faced with a slate that doesn’t even believe in basic science.”
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Environmental cases are mostly bad for the environment and chickens and things.
I hope their alarm is justified.
“A cycle ago, there were people who actually believed in solving some of these problems,” said Navin Nayak of the League of Conservation Voters. “Now we’re faced with a slate that doesn’t even believe in basic science.”That knife cuts in two directions. The climate alarmists are mostly alarmed these days that the climate isn't cooperating with their view of how it should be behaving.
There is no significant warming, in deep contrast with what the alarmist models and theories predicted at this point. There isn't even a reason to believe that warming will worsen significantly for several decades, between predicted solar activity and the current oceanic climate oscillations.
If you happen to be concerned about too much CO2 being emitted, your best bet is inventing cost effective alternatives and letting the free market do its work. Nothing else that's been proposed is going to fly, in particular crippling the US economy further and letting China pass us by.
There has never been a doubt as to who the environmental nuts would vote for. Obama didn't even have to stop the pipe line deal to get their votes. Does anybody here think they would vote republican, had he done otherwise?
It might have affected his money stream from them by a smidgen but that's all.
When the unruly children do not get thier way in November they will become more mischievious.
Get stuffed, Jerry.
I see no reason why this alliance of convenience between crony capitalists, envirowackos and the US government should not continue. They invest in green jobs, which the envirowhackos and faux-envirowackos (Gore) cheer on (the latter for a cut on the deal washed through influential law firms), get a hoard of government bureaucrats hired to handle the bad paper to negotiate the deal between the repacious investors and the rapacious investment banks (who will stuff the bad paper into pension funds), said bureaucrats working hard to get terms favorable to the US citizenrgy (wink wink). Everyone wins except the tax payer and who ever cared about him.
So, is 0bama such an “environmentalist” {ie, COMMUNIST} ideologue that he shut down the pipeline out of principle instead of as a political pander to Gang Green?
If he had their vote anyway, then there was no need to stop it. I wonder if their vote is that secure. They won’t vote for a non/anti-communist, but they might stay home.
What’s missing for the eco-fascist movement are visible signs of swastikas and jackboots.
So-called envirnomentlists are the putrid spawn of Hitler’s fascist movement.
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