Obama says will move immediately on international climate pact 7

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   JRinMD Posted 11:47 am
   11 Feb 2008

   Obama and McCain on climate progressGiven recent statements by McCain, especially during the Florida GOP debate, positions on climate change could be a clear differentiator among candidates from this point toward November. If Barack Obama is truly serious, he will specify, with a realistic plan, how he'll reduce emissions in the short run with aggressive energy efficiency measures and credible commitments to renewable energy over the long haul. He can start by challenging the Bush Admnistration to capitalize on its hosting the first-ever, ministerial-level, renewable energy summit in the U.S. -- the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference, or WIREC, and its companion Trade Show -- to scale up renewable energy equal to or better than the favors many industry experts agree it is doling out to utilities for next-generation nuclear power plants.

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   Wolverine Posted 3:24 pm
   11 Feb 2008

   What Obama Will DoBarak Obama is a big supporter of coal and nuclear energy.  Figure it out.  Climate change is not the only serious environmental issue folks, quit obsessing on it.

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   bart laemmel Posted 10:21 pm
   11 Feb 2008

   they can't do itI don't believe the federal government can make a serious dent in the climate change problem.  They are in bed with to many contributing sectors.  We need to stop waiting on the government to do something and just start doing it ourselves.  Obama and McCain will say anything to get the prize at this point.

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   caniscandida Posted 3:41 am
   12 Feb 2008

   "venom"Notice the claim of a para-endorsement from Al Gore.  Whatever this statement may tell us about Obama's being "ready from Day -75," it certainly reminds us that he is in principle in a much better position to access the Mind of Gore than is Hillary.
   Paul Krugman did well, yesterday, to point to the annoying and profoundly unpleasant airs of holier-than-thou superiority on the part of many in the Obama camp, though perhaps "venom" is not quite the right word:
   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/opinion/11krugman.html? ...

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   bookerly Posted 10:20 pm
   12 Feb 2008

   Whomever
   
     Of the three major candidates people endorse, all of them have flawed global warming plans.  The job of environmentalists should not be to lend unqualified support to anyone, but to organize and prepare to push the winning candidate further along the road towards the kinds of change that will really address the issue of global warming.
   patrick in Beijing

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   amazingdrx Posted 12:42 am
   13 Feb 2008

   UFOsOne question.  Will Barack tell US about the aliens and alien spacecraft the government has squirreled away somewhere?  Hehey.

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   greeniemeanie Posted 4:26 pm
   17 Feb 2008

   Gore won't be endorsing anyoneHe's been counseling neutrality.
   And BTW: during the campaign to draft Gore, Gore's office released a statement that he thought Hillary was running a good campaign, and he didn't think he needed to run.
   Now, if I were going to act the same way a Obama supporter does, I would claim that meant Gore endorsed Hillary.
   It doesn't. It means several things.
   Get over yourself. You ain't gonna get the man to speak before he wants.
   
   

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