The Political Climate: an ongoing commentary on the NH Primary and Climate Change

Rudy Giuliani spent fifteen minutes of a town hall meeting at UNH discussing energy issues.

In the first climate question Giuliani faced, the questioner reminded Giuliani that a cap and trade system uses the market to find the cheapest reductions through trading and pushes energy companies towards renewables.

Watch Rudy’s response.

Again, Giuliani stressed that he is not in favor of a cap and trade and explained that the clean technologies are not yet viable to meet the mandatory reductions.

Rudy then answered a question about the global economy and he spoke to the opportunity that the U.S. has to sell our energy sources to the developing world.

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Finally, a UNH student asked a timely question about what position President Giuliani would take at the two week international climate change summit in Bali that began yesterday.

Watch Rudy’s response.

Giuliani believes that America’s domestic renewable energy technologies are developed enough to sell to the entire world and solve the international climate change crisis, but they are not yet ready to meet the emissions reductions required by a domestic cap and trade system.