Another Debate Lacks Discussion on Climate Change
November 29th, 2007 by Carbon CoalitionThe Republican candidates met up in Florida last night for the CNN/YouTube debate. An op-ed from USA Today predicted that the candidates wouldn’t field a question from the infamous snowman, but hoped that this would ”clear the way for a more serious grilling of the GOP candidates about climate change.” Unfortunately, there was no discussion on energy or climate change.
Interesting fact: Both last nights’ debate and the last Democratic debate in Vegas were both sponsored by the ‘clean coal’ industry. Hmmmmmmmmm.
At a carbon and nuclear-free energy symposium yesterday, Dennis Kucinich took the opportunity to tout his climate change plan. Here are a couple quotes:
“What I advocate is making government an instrument of sustainability. Imagine an American president who tells the American people that every area of the American government will be involved in sustainability?”
“The energy department will stop incentivizing oil, coal and nuclear. Take those subsidies out. Isn’t it interesting that we are being told that nuclear is so cheap, but the government has to fund the industry just to prop it up?”
