Is It Silly Season Already?
by Patrick Ruffini :: February 14th, 2007 10:59 pmIt sure feels like it. And the flap about my candidate Rudy Giuliani and global warming is a great example of it.
I’ve seen Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. And I came to a very similar conclusion. For all Gore does to describe a problem, there’s very little talk about concrete solutions. What’s the shame in pointing that out? Is that “outflanking Gore on the left?” Hardly. Here’s where Rudy stands on some of these issues:
In Santa Clara, Giuliani said the country must “do something” about global warming. But he showed little inclination to break with Bush or his Republican congressional allies, who have resisted new pollution restraints on industry. Asked about California’s landmark law mandating carbon emission cuts to combat global warming, Giuliani said he was unfamiliar with it. He called for more nuclear power, expanded ethanol production and cleaner coal mining.
“There is a special interest to stop every one of those new technologies — either special conflicting economic interest, or a special interest that has exaggerated things beyond proportion, like the fear of nuclear power,” he said. “We’ve had nuclear power in this country for a long time. We’ve never had a fatality.”
Nuclear power. Clean coal. Biofuels. If I recall correctly, these are all things that have been actively pursued by the Bush Administration, many if not all of them dating back to Dick Cheney’s energy task force (cue scream). Nuclear energy has been a particular target of the SUV-driving Hollywood left, despite its very low emissions.
Calling out the left on its hypocrisy is not outflanking them. And this seems to be part of a broader theme with the Mayor, one noticed by Lawhawk:
Rudy Giuliani is coming under fire for giving the hint that he’s bought into the global warming hysteria. I think he’s got a plan up his sleeve. He’s going to force the global warming environuts to come up with more than just doom and gloom hysteria.
Solutions. He wants to see solutions. Simply braying that the sky is falling is insufficient. What tangible things are they calling for that will supposedly solve the problem of global warming? Are they feasible? Can they be achieved without bankrupting countries (namely the US)?
Isn’t this very similar to what Rudy has been doing on the nonbinding resolution? He’s seeing the Democrats bet and then raising it. Demanding concrete results. Politics on the Left glorifies the cult of victimhood, with its love of meaningless gestures and complaints. From the environment to Iraq, we have a candidate who can go directly at the Left with a dogged and persuasive insistence on results.
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Patrick: Before we get all hot and bothered about Global Warming and what should be done about, I suggest first a discussion on the science. I understand that within the past two weeks two different scientists have published books which debunk the whole question.
First the science, then the solutions.
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