Joseph Lieberman Sought Middle Ground on Climate Change | Although his legislation failed, the late Connecticut Senator and one-time vice presidential candidate kept attention on the issue after the U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol.
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That was then. Republicans and centrist Dems all assured us they would rein in oil companies and make the US a climate leader.
And then McCain brought “Drill, baby drill” Sarah Palin onto his ticket, and the GOP (Gas and Oil Party) has been on a downward slide ever since.
The failure of Cap and Trade was the tipping point in American politics from which we never recovered. James Inhofe’s (the snowball guy) 2003 speech is what really carried the day, and the American people were too stupid to see it for what it was:
“I have offered compelling evidence that catastrophic global warming is a hoax. That conclusion is supported by the painstaking work of the nation’s top climate scientists.”
“What have scientists concluded? The Kyoto Protocol has no environmental benefits; natural variability, not fossil fuel emissions, is the overwhelming factor influencing climate change; satellite data, confirmed by NOAA balloon measurements, confirms that no meaningful warming has occurred over the last century; and climate models predicting dramatic temperature increases over the next 100 years are flawed and highly imperfect.”
“I believe it is extremely important for the future of this country that the facts and the science get a fair hearing. Without proper knowledge and understanding, alarmists will scare the country into enacting its ultimate goal: making energy suppression, in the form of harmful mandatory restrictions on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions, the official policy of the United States.”