Candidates On Climate - Among GOPers, Only McCain "Outspoken" On Climate Change - CS Monitor

Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize for his years of work on climate change has caused considerable speculation about whether he might be a late entry in the race for the White House, a subject on which he remains coy. But where does the former vice president's award leave the declared presidential candidates on global warming?

Their positions range widely: from a corporate carbon tax (Sen. Christopher Dodd) and an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050 (John Edwards) to a cap-and-trade system on such gases (Sen. John McCain) to a pooh-poohing of the kind of climate threat Mr. Gore warns about (Rep. Tom Tancredo). Asked by the Associated Press to name "the last work of fiction you've read," Republican Congressman Tancredo said it was Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."

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Among the GOP candidates, only Senator McCain has been outspoken on climate change, having sponsored the first major Senate legislation to reduce greenhouse gases four years ago and criticizing the Bush administration for lack of action on climate change. This year's version of the McCain-sponsored bill would cap greenhouse-gas emissions at 2004 levels by 2012 and then reduce them by 65 percent by 2050. He also favors increased spending on nuclear power and opposes oil drilling in ANWR.

So far, however, no candidate has used Gore's Nobel-inspired rhetoric to describe climate change: "a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1015/p02s02-uspo.html

Just out of curiosity, I checked also out some websites.

Fred Thompson doesn't even mention "environment" or "climate" under his "Issues" listing.
http://www.fred08.com/Principles/PrinciplesSummary.aspx

Of course, if you'd like to know what he really thinks, there's this op-ed piece from National Review Online:

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"NASA says the Martian South Pole’s “ice cap” has been shrinking for three summers in a row. Maybe Mars got its fever from earth. If so, I guess Jupiter’s caught the same cold, because it’s warming up too, like Pluto.

This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their air-conditioning at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle.

Silly, I know, but I wonder what all those planets, dwarf planets and moons in our SOLAR system have in common. Hmmmm. SOLAR system. Hmmmm. Solar? I wonder. Nah, I guess we shouldn’t even be talking about this. The science is absolutely decided. There’s a consensus.

Ask Galileo.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTQzYWY1MGM5NTkyZTM2YWVlMDMzMDlhMzQwNThhNDU=

Then there's Brownback - no mention of "environment" or "climate" on his website, either. Hmm . . .
http://www.brownback.com/s/Issues/tabid/60/Default.aspx#Energy

Tom Tancredo - Hmm. Funny, no mention of "environment" or "climate" on his issues page, either, though it's nice to see that he's made room for "Political Correctness" and gay marriage.
http://teamtancredo.org/tancredo_issues_index.php

Rudy Giuliani: No mention of "environment" or "climate" on his issues page, either. In fact, he doesn't even have "energy" listed among his issues. Strange . . .
http://www.joinrudy2008.com/issues/

Huckabee - no mention there, either. Of course, to give credit where it's due, he does manage to indirectly talk about the environment in his amusingly-titled "Energy Independence" category. Nice!
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Issues.Home

Romney - hold the phone, stop the presses and send out for Chinese - a Republican candidate mentions the environment! Yowza!!
http://www.mittromney.com/Issue-Watch/Energy
Oh, sorry. My bad. There's nothing here but biodiesel and opening the continental shelf to more drilling. Darn . . .

Ron Paul - Border Security? Yes! Property Rights & Eminent Domain? Yes? Home Schooling? Yes! Environment . . . . uh . . . . no.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/

Was there anybody else?