Interesting exceprts from last night’s debate:
Q: Governor Huckabee, this question comes from Curtis Waldman from Boca Raton, Florida. Thousands of reputable scientists have concluded with almost certainty that human activity is responsible for the warming of the Earth. Do you believe global warming exists?
GOV. HUCKABEE: The most important thing about global warming is this: Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it’s all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it. It’s the old Boy Scout rule of the campsite; you leave the campsite in better shape than you found it.
I believe that even our responsibility to God means that we have to be good stewards of this Earth, be good caretakers of the natural resources that don’t belong to us; we just get to use them. We have no right to abuse them.
Q: Congressman Hunter, Kay Thomas from Honolulu, Hawaii, wants to know if you watched Al Gore’s environmental documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
REP. HUNTER: No, I didn’t watch it. But, you know, I think that global warming and the need to be energy-independent gives us a great opportunity.
I think we should bring together all of our colleges, our universities, the private sector, government laboratories, and undertake what, for this next generation, will be a great opportunity and a great challenge to remove energy dependence on the Middle East and, at the same time, help the climate.
I think we can do that. We need to take taxes down to zero for the alternative energy sources. We need to make sure that all the licensing from our laboratories that goes to the private sector goes to the American manufacturing sector for these energy systems.
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May 6th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Coming from the West Coast smog, I,m all for clean energy and
GOV. HUCKABEE is right. We need to be good stewards, but over reacting, like we did here in California, putting MTBE in the gasoline, has caused untold health problems. This is another situation where common sense and clear thinking before reacting is a must.
DRUDGE HAS A LINK UP TO THE FOLLOWING SITE. IT’S A MUST READ.
The article on global warming is entitled: “The Faithful Heretic”
http://www.wecnmagazine.com/2007issues/may/may07.html
Reid Bryson, At age 86, wrote the book on global warming.
June 4th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks