Originally published February 6 2006
Republicans beginning to take climate change and its consequences more seriously
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
DelMarvanow.com looks at how climate change is being adopted as a priority by the political right of America, a reassuring development in light of the U.S. refusal to participate in the U.N. conference on climate change recently held in Montreal.
More and more Republicans say Democrats can count on them as allies in the legislative battle against climate change as the Bush administration continues to resist binding commitments that would curb greenhouse gas emissions.
The country again came under fire for refusing to cap industrial emissions Nov. 30 when thousands of environmentalists and international officials gathered in Montreal to pen a global treaty to curb global warming.
The conference was reminiscent of the Kyoto Protocol meeting in 1998, when Washington earned a reputation of indifference after Bush said the mandate would be too expensive and wrongly excluded developing nations like China and India.
The United States is blamed for 25 percent of dangerous carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere.
But officials say the right-wing radicals that question evidence of global warming are becoming few in number.
John McCain of Arizona and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska each sponsored bills that would cap carbon dioxide emissions.
"We are convinced that the overwhelming scientific evidence indicated that climate change is taking place and human activities play a very large role," McCain said in August.
Locally, Congressman Wayne Gilchrest, R-Md-1st, hosts viewings of the documentary, "We are all Smith Islanders," which is a film that shows how global warming could destroy the Chesapeake Bay region.
"I think in a very slow process more and more conservatives are being converted to the fact that there are issues out there that they must pay attention to," Gilchrest said.
"As we see the transformation right before our eyes of the ramifications of the planet warming and much of the world involved in technology to reduce greenhouse gases, we are hopeful the U.S. will move in that direction."
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