"Tonight on CBS Evening News, each of the 10 leading presidential candidates will be asked, “Do you think the risks of climate change are at all overblown?"
The Bush Administration has continued to play politics with our environmental policy by working to discredit accepted science on global warming, and the Republican field of candidates has joined him. Some mock it, and others simply refuse to say anything about it.
Their environmental policies are irresponsible, given all the evidence that we need to start making some real changes. Nevertheless, they stick their heads in the sand and pretend a problem doesn't exist.
Use the menu on the left to browse candidates positions on the Environment
DID YOU KNOW?
- At his first major fundraiser, Rudy Giuliani's emcee, Dennis Miller, mocked global warming, saying, "Excuse me for not believing temperatures from 1906, when we were still s-ing in the woods."
- In a statement, Mitt Romney criticized Republicans for "embracing the radical environmental ideas of the liberal left."
- Newt Gingrich opposed the United States signing the Kyoto Treaty.
- John McCain hired Swift Boat advertising firm designed to attack veterans.
- Ron Paul Voted Against Increasing Fuel Efficiency for SUVs.
- Duncan Hunter Voted to Weaken the Clean Air Act
Global warming and the Republicans
Today the NY Times reports that the issue of global warming is dividing the Republican presidential candidates.
Newt's Global Warming Flip-Flop
Newt Gingrich, referring to the global warming debate, used to talk about a "politically driven mass hysteria of scientists." He questioned whether global warming existed, and seemed to suggest it was just as likely Europe would experience an ice age.Read More · Link to this Article
Will McCain Denounce Falwell's Claim "Naïve" Christians Being "Duped" on Global Warming?
John McCain's commitment to the issue of global warming may be the latest casualty of his do-anything-to-win approach to the Republican presidential primary.Read More · Link to this Article
