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This sums it up for me

Found Via Corpus Callosum…

Hillary’s strong stance on global warming issues has lead to her putting out some new plans if she were president…

Clinton is calling for an improvement in the fleet-wide fuel economy standard to the tune of 55 miles per gallon by the year 2030.

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Though questions of plausibility linger, Clinton has outlined several specific measures to achieve the high benchmarks, including the issuing of $20 billion of “Green Vehicle Bonds” for U.S. automakers to use in retooling their plants with technology that would output more efficient vehicles. Clinton would also grant a $10,000 consumer tax credit as a purchase incentive for plug-in hybrids. She would also allocate $2 billion for investment in battery research and add 100,000 plug-in hybrids to the federal fleet by 2015.

I wish I could say I think this will be enough, but I just can’t. While I like what Clinton is doing and I will never knock it, it just sucks that what she proposes is the best yet, and it really just falls short of what we need to be doing. More and more scientists are ever growing worried, and it still seems people just don’t care. It seems people would rather worry about short term costs than long term sustainability for some odd reason.

What I hope will happen, is that the next presidential candidate will come in from a platform of what they are going to do, but drastically step up the measures once in office.

And I just heard about it today from my coworker.

So here is an article on Bush and Climate Change:

“By setting this goal, we acknowledge there is a problem,” President Bush told representatives of 17 nations attending the Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change held in Washington, D.C., this week. “We must lead the world to produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, and we must do it in a way that does not undermine economic growth or prevent nations from delivering greater prosperity for their people.” The nations represented at the conference emit more than 80 percent of the globe’s greenhouse gases

Right… so you recognize there is a problem, and to solve this problem you don’t create any plan and push off the responsibility to the next president. Wonderful! Oh, and don’t forget the claim that we “must not undermine economic growth.” It’s a ridiculous claim to make since the outcome of not doing anything is disastrous.

Basically as the article states, Bush squandered a great opportunity to actually put forth measures that would have an impact on Climate Change. So below I offer the promo video of Blogging Action Day and a link to DOFs post on this

http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/index.php/weblog/blog_action_day07/

Sometimes pictures say more than words…

Found via TreeHugger

Because all they do is instill doubt and hopelessness in people about Global Warming and what can be done. And shame on him for doing so. Friedman is intelligent, he travels places he talks about, has been around the world, understands a lot about foreign policy, and people listen to him. Especially since his is a columnist at NYTimes.

James shares my sentiments on this issue and pretty much shows why Friedman is an ass.