Which Republican presidential nominee do you most agree with on global warming?

Question

Huckabee calls climate change "a spiritual issue."

"We ought to be moving rapidly toward energy resources that don't have a greenhouse gas effect."

Last spring, Thompson seemed to mock the issue. More recently, as a presidential candidate, he has said global warming is real.

At a town hall meeting in New Hampshire in October, Giuliani said: "Yes, global warming is happening. Yes, human beings are contributing to it. No, it is not an hysterical emergency that has to be dealt with...it should be dealt with as a long-term emergency in a sensible, mature sound way in which we allow our economy to grow."

McCain favors caps on greenhouse gas emissions, a "cap and trade" policy as a market-based way to spur industries to take action, and higher fuel standards for vehicles. He has been highly critical of the Bush Administration on global warming.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3922730&page=1

Which of these candidates do you most agree with?

I forgot Romney:

He does now acknowledge that mankind has contributed to global warming. When asked about it at his "Ask Mitt Anything" events, he often says he is in favor of reducing United States dependence on foreign oil by developing alternative cleaner fuels, and the use of nuclear power.

I suppose we can include the ones who have no shot at winning too.

Paul is very wishy-washy, saying there are scientists on both sides, global warming is a problem, we should "slow up the emissions and stop subsidizing big oil companies."

Tancredo:

I have no doubt that global warming exists. I just question the cause and what we can do to ameliorate it. But I wonder why the Sierra Club isn't going crazy about the environmental aspects of massive immigration into the U.S. The fact is, Americans consume more energy than anyone else, so if a person moves here from another country, they automatically become bigger polluters."

Hunter: We don't know all the science blah blah blah "But I don't think you have to answer that question to do what I've recommended. I think we have lots of reasons to be energy independent."

http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/issues/climate/index.html

Answer 1

McCain

I think he understands the urgency to do something mandatory.

Though I don't agree with everything McCain is about.... I have alot of respect for him as someone who has done a great deal of good things for this country. And he's not a Bush dingleberry...

Answer 2

I don't know if you oppose Ron Paul, or just forgot to include him in this issue...this is from Ron Paul...

As a Congressman, I've done a number of things to support environmentally friendly policies. I have been active in the Green Scissors campaign to cut environmentally harmful spending, I've opposed foreign wars for oil, and I've spoken out against government programs that encourage development in environmentally sensitive areas, such as flood insurance."

"I strongly oppose the Kyoto treaty. Providing for a clean environment is an excellent goal, but the Kyoto treaty doesn't do that. Instead it's placed the burden on the United States to cut emissions while not requiring China - the world's biggest polluter - an other polluting third-world countries to do a thing. Also, the regulations are harmful for American workers, because it encourages corporations to move their business overseas to countries where the regulations don't apply. It's bad science, it's bad policy, and it's bad for America. I am more than willing to work cooperatively with other nations to come up with policies that will safeguard the environment, but I oppose all nonbinding resolutions that place an unnecessary burden on the United States."

He wants to work on this globally, which I think is more important than on just the USA. If we are to fight this issue hands down...then the entire world must act upon this issue.
Just how I see it...

Answer 3

Honestly I do not really know what to think. I do not turst people in politics they only say what people want them to here but reguradless of that i would say I like McCain.

Answer 4

Richard Nixon.

He wanted us to be free of Arab oil by the year 2000, but your Mommy and Daddy insisted that we continue to prostitute ourselves to the Saudis and now you see where we are.

Answer 5

Whichever one agrees that the whole global warming thing is a scam.

Answer 6

Romney

Answer 7

Well going by your quotes , I would say Rudy.

It is not any big deal in my estimation

Answer 8

"Global Warming" is a non-issue to me, and therefore has no bearing on my conservative vote.

Answer 9

None of them have the accurate view that the globe warms and cools in cycles...and man is nothing more than dust in the wind?

At least their solutions aren't "tax tax tax"

Answer 10

Romney

During the melting of the polar ice caps....the earth was warming........was that because cavemen were driving too many SUV's?