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  McCains Eco-Friendly Line

  http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/mccains-eco-fr...
  71 days ago in The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog · Authority: 6,804

  McCains Eco-Friendly Line By Sarah Wheaton Go Green McCain Tote Bag Just in time for Fathers Day and his speech on curbing emissions, Senator John McCains presidential campaign is out with a hot new spring line of eco-friendly products. Call it Crunchy
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  McCain the Reformer

  http://dailypundit.com/?p=30532
  71 days ago in Daily Pundit · Authority: 394

  McCain Differs With Bush on Climate Change - New York Times PORTLAND, Ore. Senator John McCain sought to distance himself from President Bush on Monday as he called for a mandatory limit on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States to combat climate
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  AWOL Eight Years On Global Warming

  http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/012518.php
  72 days ago in The Left Coaster · Authority: 598

  by Steve Soto As we have said before, John McCain will spend the next several months recasting himself as a better conservative than George W. Bush, especially on issues important to swing and independent voters like health care and global warming.
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  Climate politics

  http://www.env-econ.net/2008/05/climate-politic.html
  72 days ago in Environmental Economics · Authority: 246

  From the NYTimes: Senator John McCain sought to distance himself from President Bush on Monday as he called for a mandatory limit on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States to combat climate change. ... The two Democrats seeking their partys
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  News roundup: Thousands dead in China; Burma accused of hoarding aid

  http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/05/news-roundup--6...
  72 days ago in On Deadline - USATODAY.com · Authority: 2,325

  Good morning. It's Tuesday. The death toll from yesterday's earthquake in China continues to grow, with the latest reports on CNN suggesting some 18,000 people may have been buried alive in a city near the epicenter. NPR has had a team of reporters in
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  McCain med klima-annonse på TV

  http://andreas-tjern.blogspot.com/2008/06/mccain-med-klima-a...
  37 days ago in Andreas Tjernshaugen · Authority: 1

  Presidentkandidat John McCain lanserte nylig en tv-reklame om klimapolitikk. På tirsdag la han også vekt på spørsmålet i sin tale om energipolitikk i Houston, Texas. I mai hadde han egne valgkamparrangementer blant annet i Oregon, hvor han talte engasjert om miljø- og klimpolitikk. Hva er motivasjonen - gitt at velgerne ser ut til å legge så liten vekt på klima- og miljøpolitikk (se forrige blogginnlegg)? Svaret er nok at McCain kan bruke klimapolitikken til å markere avstand til den upopulære president Bush, som demokratene gjør sitt beste for å knytte ham til. TV-reklamen starter med å fortelle at McCain har talt Bush midt imot i dette spørsmålet gjennom flere år. På denne måten er klimasaken politisk nyttig for McCain - akkurat som den var nyttig for Tony Blair som like desperat trengte å vise sin selvstendighet overfor George W. Bush etter Irak-invasjonen for noen år siden. Ikke dermed sagt at McCain og Blair ikke er personlig engasjert i spørsmålet, det er de sikkert. Men for toppolitikere spiller bestandig hensynet til velgernes oppfatning en rolle - og i en valgkamp er det selvsagt hovedsaken. Et apropos, forresten. Da gamle president Bush - faren til George W. - stilte som presidentkandidat i 1988, brukte han sur nedbør-saken til å vise avstand til sin avtroppende partifelle Ronald Reagan som strittet imot de fleste miljøtiltak. Gamle Bush vant valget - og fikk regulert svovelutslippene fra amerikanske kullkraftverk.
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  John McCain- a green Republican?

  http://journals.aol.co.uk/scitman/scitmans-presidential-elec...
  41 days ago in Scitman's Presidential Election 2008 Blog · No authority yet

  John McCain has made great play on his differences with Bush over green issues, particularly over climate change (as seen here http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/us/politics/13mccain.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin), but this article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/11/AR2008051101964.html?wpisrc=newsletter casts doubt on McCain's credentials. Perhaps just a little too much faith put in a pro-business Republican? Or just naivete by a green lobby just delighted to be rid of the current administration?
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  Some Fairly Pleasant CO2 Arithmetic

  http://angrybear.blogspot.com/2008/06/some-fairly-pleasant-c...
  48 days ago in Angry Bear · Authority: 328

  Posted by Tom Bozzo From last week's Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, a paper [*] on Bank of America Corporation's environmental footprint offered the following observations: BAC's U.S. CO2 footprint is approximately 2.2 million metric tons per year.Most of that is from electricity and natural gas use (for lighting, heating, and computing).One of their corporate sustainability goals has been to reduce emissions by 9% from 2004 levels by 2009 (ca. 200,000 MT/year).Now, the authors put their economist caps on, and in a pretty good demonstration that some useful economics requires no advanced math at all, looked at the cost of picking the low-hanging fruit instead of the high-hanging fruit: The three lowest-cost mitigation methods could reduce emissions by 280,000 MT and save them $2.5 million per year on net. None of these involve carbon credits (which are also relatively cheap but have positive cost). Their four highest-cost options could cut out 313,000 MT at a cost of $78 million/year.However, the fourth highest-cost option — the carbon credits — would, added to the three low-cost options, let them reduce their footprint by more than 20% without significantly denting the low-cost method's savings. For the most part, BAC doesn't seem to be especially uniquely situated to capture these savings. In contrast, we have the possibly endangered Mitch McConnell arguing on the Senate floor that the "cap and trade" approach to cutting carbon dioxide emissions would unleash "the largest restructuring of the American economy since the New Deal." The implication, of course, is that requiring even modest emissions reductions would impose large costs on the U.S. economy. For at least the first 10-20% or so, the BAC case shows that's just totally untrue; the first few percent can be extracted just by reducing gross wastes (like improving the light/heat production ratio for lighting) and lot more isn't especially expensive with proper planning, i.e. rolling energy efficiency improvements into the processes of replacing or refreshing fixed capital. And I can't help but say that with the McCain campaign trying to suggest that He Cares (if not as much as about selling McCain '08 golf apparel), I'd like to see the roll call on the measure. (Update: a cloture motion failed in the Senate, with surrogates expressing support for the bill on behalf of the absent presidential candidates. The 84-vote total makes me think some senators didn't want their preferences recorded.) [*] Jody Berenblatt, Lawrence Buc, and Peter Soyka, "Bank of America, Mail, and the Environment." BAC is their employer or client, and not mine.
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  McCain parts with Bush

  http://o3man.blogspot.com/2008/05/mccain-parts-with-bush.htm...
  56 days ago in o3man · No authority yet

  McCain supports cap on greenhouse gases and alternate energy. He was visiting a wind farm where he said that the US an europe must take the lead in stopping climate change and ending global warming that emperils the whole world. He wants to diplomatically engage China and India in a new initiative to end global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emmisions from the two worst polluters in the world.
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  Confront Global Warming in the Senate Before Getting to the White House

  http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/fbeinecke/confront_global_...
  62 days ago in Switchboard, from NRDC › Frances Beinecke's Blog · Authority: 17

  Last week, Senator John McCain gave a prominent speech about global warming. I was glad to see him, like the other two remaining candidates, outlining what he might do to combat global warming if he were elected president. But the truth is, McCain, Clinton, and Obama are all still senators, and the Senate is where the action is right now. As early as the first week in June, the Senate will vote on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. This is the most promising global warming bill out there right now. It gets us quickly moving on a strong trajectory to cut global warming emissions: it calls for a 15 percent reduction by 2020 and a 70 percent reduction by 2050. The bill still needs to be strengthened, and we will have to head off attempts to file down its teeth, but it is the best chance we have right now of taking real, concrete action to address the crisis of global warming. And it’s happening in the Senate, not the White House. That’s why we need all three presidential candidates to show up at their Senate jobs and prove today that they are serious about their promises for tomorrow. It is not enough for them to vote in favor of Lieberman-Warner. They should be rallying the support of their Senate colleagues as well. We all know life is busy on the campaign trail, but a few strategic phone calls and speeches on the Senate floor could make a significant difference. Global warming has gotten woefully limited attention in the media coverage of the campaign (see my previous post for some startling numbers). Yet what better way to reverse that trend than by having the candidates throw their weight behind the Lieberman-Warner bill?

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