[97dYA9L3]

Looks like we have a big, new convert to the cause. Anyone else sense that the ground is really starting shift underneath the GOP's feet on global warming?


A leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination declared the debate on global warming "over" yesterday and said that the US would act to save the environment. Senator John McCain's speech at a summit on green policies indicated a crucial change in US political opinion towards climate change.

"I am convinced that we have reached the tipping point and that the Congress of the United States will act with the agreement of the administration," said Mr McCain, who is a favoured candidate in next year's presidential primaries.

"The debate is over, my friends. Now the question is: what do we do? Do we act, do we care enough about the young people of the next generation to act seriously and meaningfully, or are we going to just continue this debate and this discussion?"

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Mr McCain said voluntary agreements to reduce emissions from power plants and vehicles were not enough to "change the status quo".
World 'at tipping point over global warming' | International News | News | Telegraph

[mygalinasoo]

Seems to me that McCain is saddling a fresh horse because his previous mount died from fume inhalation.

The environmental lobby can do without the McCains. They're too late and too dirty. We'll be up to our eyes in their bombs and bullets while they plagiarize the environmental hymn-books for votes.

[Gintovtosik]

Antarctic temperatures disagree with climate model predictions

[MegaJIT]

Antarctic temperatures disagree with climate model predictions

"In some sense, we might have competing effects going on in Antarctica where there is low-level CO2 warming but that may be swamped by the effects of ozone depletion," he said. "The year 2006 was the all-time maximum for ozone depletion over the Antarctic."

"It isn't surprising that these models are not doing as well in these remote parts of the world. These are global models and shouldn't be expected to be equally exact for all locations,"

[mygalinasoo]

From the article itself;
This is in marked contrast to the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula that is one of the most rapidly warming parts of the Earth." The industrialists, and their bought 'scientists', who have lied to us should be imprisoned. Actually, they might be, as things get progressively worse.

[Enjoymmsq]

McCain isn't saying the world is at a tipping point, he's saying the political will to do something about it in the US is changing.

[Blotassefesek]

From the article itself;


The industrialists, and their bought 'scientists', who have lied to us should be imprisoned. Actually, they might be, as things get progressively worse.

Should that mean Bill Clinton gets imprisoned too for lying under oath to congress and to the federal grand jury?

[tactWeiccaf]

Looks like we have a big, new convert to the cause. Anyone else sense that the ground is really starting shift underneath the GOP's feet on global warming?

All of the conservatives I know don't consider McCain a Republican. He's a rino (that's why big media loves him.)

Kramer

[Haremporblape]

Yeah, McCain won't win the grand old party's nomination, not with this giving in to the socialist-liberal treehugging agenda. To rally the base, the GOP will want someone who will stand up to the the New World Order environmentalists and tell them that we can pollute as much as we want, because it's in the bible that we have dominion over nature.

Seriously though, I think it's interesting. Since Reagan, the republican strategy has been to rally the base, and you don't do that by taking controversial opinions - you do that by holding fast to the average opinion of evangelicals. So either McCain feels that the evidence is too overwhelming and it's his duty as a policy maker to do something even if it means risking a GOP nomination, or it's a sign that there's a lot more evangelical greens.