Let's be honest here, this man, John McCain, is not serious about the environment, climate change, or a modern energy infrastructural change that is badly needed.

to prove it was safe for pedestrians, he marched through the streets of baghdad in full jacket, protected by soldiers and helicopter gunships. now he will present his climate plan that proves only mild corrections are needed to deal with emissions and consequences. good for him, he wows the crowd.

8 million households use heating oil. the last winter put most of them on the edge of their money and oil prices might double by the end of the year. there's no way those people can go green before then with the money they have, or by other means.

li'l help, senator?

economy's wrecked, climate's melting, oil's scarce, green's the way out.

It sounds like L-W is indeed, the train, as the Climate Change Credit Corp. is their vehicle as well.  Note also that L-W does put a lot of resources towards adaptation, even if it hasn't gotten as much media attention.

Behind the curve? McCain is one of the few senators that has been working on this issue for years. See the Lieberman-McCain Climate Stewardship Act of 2003.

In a party that made James ("global warming is a hoax") Inhofe the Chair of the Senate Environment Committee, it's easy to look good by comparison.  But McCain's promises are not nearly enough.  He's committing to 60 percent reductions when NASA global warming expert James Hansen warns that even 80 percent may not be enough.  McCain's allowance for satisfying the law through offsets allows for accounting tricks instead of real reductions.  As Al Gore warned in his Nobel Speech, we are facing a planetary emergency.  We can no longer allow industry lobbyists and the Republican Party leadership to hold sway.  Mr. McCain and his 25 percent Senate environmental record and his fellow Republican legislators need to be shown the door.  They've done far too much damage as is.

What McCain has in his pocket to help protect the climate is nuclear energy.  Read up on the benefits towards diminishing carbon output.  Our carbon output would be ridiculously tiny v. the carbon output of power sources we are relying on today.  It is time environmentalists did some reading on nuclear energy and woke up to the realization it is the only energy source powerful and non polluting enough to save the planet!  The technology for harnessing the sun and the wind's energy is so far behind.  We need change now before it is too late, if it is not already.  Now if we could just convince Obama of this then we could really be leading a movement of change...