Green Options » republican platform http://greenoptions.com/tag/republican-platform Posts tagged 'republican platform' Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:40:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Republicans Work to Reconcile their (Oil) Platform with McCain’s Climate Change Thingy http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/03/republicans-work-to-reconcile-mccains-climate-change-position-with-their-oil-platform/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/03/republicans-work-to-reconcile-mccains-climate-change-position-with-their-oil-platform/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:40:17 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/03/republicans-work-to-reconcile-mccains-climate-change-position-with-their-oil-platform/ While most of the big events at the Republican National Convention were shelved Monday in deference to hurricane Gustav, there was still plenty of work to be done putting the final touches on the party’s platform, which they did. While there were few bold new propositions in the platform, the Platform Committee did attempt to narrow some of the gaps between traditional Republican positions and some of John McCain’s positions. One of the most notable differences is McCain’s position on climate change viz. the Republican Party’s traditional position (McCain is in the minority amongst his peers in terms of even believing in anthropogenic causes of climate change). What struck me as I was reading through the platform (pdf), was when issues of climate change and renewable energy were approached, they were done so with great trepidation; you could almost hear the Platform Committee gritting their collective teeth as they formulated these paragraphs.

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