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 Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject: Kerry: "A roadmap on climate change" |
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Ever the opportunist when it comes to advancing his anti-America, anti-capitalist socialist agenda, Jean Fraud attempts to grab his fair share of the limelight in Gore's climate scam ...
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A roadmap on climate change
By John F. Kerry and Jonathan Lash
December 3, 2007
After years of denial, delay, distraction and distortion, climate change is changing the political climate.
Australia's John Howard recently became the first national leader voted out of office in large measure because of his failure to respond to citizens' concerns about global warming. Newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said he'll make global warming his first priority in office.
Australia's awakening is not an isolated example. Eighty-three percent of Chinese support action on climate change. Between 2006 and 2010 China plans to improve energy efficiency by 20 percent, increase use of renewable energy sources by 15 percent and continue their very large scale reforestation program.
The dialogue in the United States is also shifting, albeit too slowly. While all of the Democrats running for president endorse strong action to reduce emissions, among the Republicans, Senator John McCain is the lone sponsor of national legislation to combat warming, and while Fred Thompson acknowledges global warming on his Web site, he won't concede it's human-caused. (ed: The global warming scam tops my list of long-term threats and would be reason enough to eschew McCain and support Thompson)
In the many presidential debates the moderators have asked about global warming only once. The pundits and the politicians still need to catch up with what is happening out in the grassroots and across the country. (ed: And as to the opinions of noted climatoligists to the contrary? Move along...nothing to see here)
Int'l Herald Tribune - cont'd |
In the interim, pseudo-environmentalist Jean Fraud continues to tread political water on the "Cape Wind" issue...
| Quote: | | Quote: | Kerry wants to be known as a leading voice for the environment. So it's inexcusable that he refuses to be pinned down on what is arguably the most important environmental debate in his own backyard.
It's time to take a stand, Mr. Kerry. |
Editorial: Kerry's Cape Wind silence
Mon Aug 27, 2007
On Monday, the environmental advocacy group Greenpeace launched a 30-second television ad that takes to task U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy and Congressman William Delahunt for opposing a proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm. Eighty percent of Massachusetts residents support the wind farm as a source of clean and renewable energy, the ad says, while Kennedy and Delahunt are putting the selfish interests of wealthy homeowners on the sound first.
Agree or disagree with them, at least Kennedy and Delahunt have a clear position on the Cape Wind project. As well they should: it would be the nation's first offshore wind farm, and as supporters including Gov. Deval Patrick see it, a first bold step in creating a vibrant alternative energy sector in Massachusetts.
While Kennedy makes no apology for his outspoken opposition - the family compound in Hyannisport is six miles from the proposed wind farm site - the state's other U.S. senator escapes criticism in the new Greenpeace spot.
That's because John Kerry has never taken a decisive position on the controversy.
Massachusetts residents have had six years now to weigh the merits of putting 130 wind turbines on shallow Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound. The debate reaches a new level of urgency this fall, when a federal environmental impact report is due for release.
Kerry remains AWOL in the debate. Even with the release of a new book he penned with his wife, Teresa, "This Moment on Earth," which pays lip service to the importance of wind and other forms of clean renewable energy, Kerry hasn't taken a definitive stance. He can't even say, to paraphrase an earlier Kerry chestnut, that he was for Cape Wind before he was against it.
Does the wealthy Kerry, who owns a home with his wife on Nantucket Sound, agree with his well-heeled summer neighbors that alternative energy is a good idea for somebody else's backyard? Or does Kerry agree with Cape Wind developer Jim Gordon that the wind farm is the best hope for creating a clean and inexpensive supply of electricity for 75 percent of Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard? And if so, why can't he stand up and disagree with the senior senator?
In fairness, when opposition lobbyists worked to get a midnight rider last year to outlaw Cape Wind, Kerry did decry those tactics and said Cape Wind should get a full and fair hearing.
But that hardly qualifies the senator for a profile in courage. At various points Kerry has refused to rule out supporting the wind farm, but also has said Kennedy raises legitimate questions about the proposed wind farm.
Kerry wants to be known as a leading voice for the environment. So it's inexcusable that he refuses to be pinned down on what is arguably the most important environmental debate in his own backyard.
It's time to take a stand, Mr. Kerry.
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