Now that the fanfare of both party conventions has come to a close, the choice voters face in November is more clear than ever, especially when it comes to confronting the climate crisis.
During his speech at the Republican National Convention, one of Mitt Romney's biggest applause lines came when he mocked then-Senator Obama's 2008 call to address climate change: "President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans -- [pauses for audience laughter] -- and to heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family."
Romney's opposition to policies that curb harmful global warming pollution is well documented, but this line -- given as he was accepting his party's nomination for president -- takes his climate callousness to a whole new level. Worse, Romney's punchline reveals that he does not understand that protecting the planet will help our families, now and in the future. Just ask those families in Colorado affected by wildfires. Or the families throughout the Midwest suffering from record droughts. Or the families in Florida threatened by rising sea levels. These families cannot afford to have a president who ignores the impacts of a changing climate.
During his own convention speech, President Obama delivered a direct rebuttal to Romney's climate joke and the climate deniers backing his campaign:
My plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet -- because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And in this election, you can do something about it.
And the president's words were backed up by his recent actions. In the days leading up to the convention, President Obama announced the single biggest step the United States government has ever taken to reduce global warming pollution: finalizing historic new national fuel efficiency standards that will make our cars go further on a gallon of gas, which will dramatically reduce our carbon footprint.
Unfortunately, Romney was not content to leave his climate ignorance at the convention -- doubling down during last weekend's interview on NBC's Meet the Press: "I'm not in this race to slow the rise of the oceans or to heal the planet."
The past two weeks have made clear that we face a stark choice this November -- and when it comes to confronting the climate crisis, that choice is obvious. To Mitt Romney, climate change is nothing more than a punchline. For President Obama, it is one of the great challenges of the 21st century.
For those of us who care about addressing climate change, it's easy to be frustrated by a system that makes big change slow and difficult. But the change necessary to usher in a new clean energy economy and reduce global warming pollution will never happen in a Romney administration influenced by Big Oil. With 53 days until Election Day, now is the time to stand up for President Obama and the clean energy future he is fighting for.
http://ifromneywins.blogspot.com/2012/09/chapter-3-how-can-republican-party-lead.html
3 months later I have cut back 2 percent.
Like that?
Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. Put more of it in the atmosphere, and more heat is trapped.
Here is a video to help you understand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nrvrkVBt24&feature=player_embedded#!
Seasons still happen?
China pouring 95% of the worlds concrete over the last 10 hasnt disturpt the spin of the earth like it would effect a tire?
The moon still pulling further away every year?
Man can still grow stuff even though the rain forest are dwindling.....and thats okay we havent found the cancer there nor the cure for common cold....try checking the locals diets of the lowest of cancer rates. simple
Volcanoes are more active now in the pacific rim heating a once cold ocean from the artic....its nature and man cannot control it . The ash from one above ground volcanoe does more damage than all of mankinds pollution put together.....and when it rains wheres it go...oh to the ground...
The biggest ozone killer on earth are volcanoes and guess what...ozone heals itself why its a living planet
Why are there tropical rain forest under miles of ice....?
We once had 2 moons and 4 hour days.......we cant stop it.
It is written there is no future for man cause it is written we wont be here forever,
I just checked outside...the sky didnt fall last night
Man is the alien within...notice no flying saucers since cell phone cameras are standard operating procedures....
And to top it all off, he'll make sure the liquid in every stream, river and lake is flammable enough to fuel my car. That man is a true hero
I feel very bad for you, a sane voice. Climate change is real but you are in the wrong party to get this point across.
Keep trying sir but you sound like a RINO. Funny that RINO's use to be few and far between but I believe that the GOP's base are now the RINO's and you sir are the real GOP.
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