Green Options » carbon cap http://greenoptions.com/tag/carbon-cap Posts tagged 'carbon cap' Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:15:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Sarah Palin on Climate Change: The Causes Don’t Matter http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/03/sarah-palin-on-climate-change-the-causes-dont-matter/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/03/sarah-palin-on-climate-change-the-causes-dont-matter/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:15:29 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/03/sarah-palin-on-climate-change-the-causes-dont-matter/ When asked about climate change at the vice-presidential debate, Gov. Sarah Palin said, “I don’t want to argue about the causes. What I want to argue about is, how are we going to get there to positively affect the impacts?”

sarah palin and her many colleges Generally speaking, if we don’t know what the cause of a given problem is, but we know there is indeed a problem, how do we devise a strategy capable of adequately addressing it? Or, in the words of Gov. Palin, “…how are we going to get there to positively affect the impact” (whatever that means).

In Thursday night’s much-ballyhooed vice-presidential debate, the issue of climate change received a bit of attention, but neither candidate was really pushed to develop their statements much beyond their original answers (Biden on his recent comment in a rope-line that the Obama-Biden ticket didn’t support clean coal and Palin on her waffling position on the causes of climate change). But the format didn’t really allow for deeper exploration either.

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/03/sarah-palin-on-climate-change-the-causes-dont-matter/feed/ Video: Obama on Climate and Energy http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/04/11/video-obama-on-climate-and-energy/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/04/11/video-obama-on-climate-and-energy/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:50:19 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/04/11/video-obama-on-climate-and-energy/ If you ask me, one of the best things about this election season thus far, is that voters who never thought their state’s caucus or primary would actually matter in deciding a presidential nominee, are finding out that they do matter - quite considerably. Our friends over at EnviroWonk did an excellent job of covering the recent presidential candidates’ whirlwind visits to Missoula, Montana. As a digital media addendum, I’ve posted a 3-minute clip of Barack Obama speaking on climate and energy policy from Missoula. A couple of nuggets from the Obama stump:

  • “Exxon Mobil made $11 billion last quarter; last quarter! And we’re melting the polar ice caps in the bargain. It’s a bad deal all around - unless you’re ExxonMobil”
  • “There doesn’t have to be a contradiction between good environmental policy and good economic policy.”

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