Comments on: Bloggers Weigh in on Presidential Candidate Climate Plans

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Tue, 22 May 2007 18:50:46 +0000

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By: Michael Crawford

Michael Crawford — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:49:30 +0000

From my experience working on campaigns and for advocacy organizations, I can tell you that if you make enough noise the candidates will pay attention and will alter their current policy platforms. Its not enough to stand on the sidelines and say that candidates are corrupt or that you don’t want to be political. Everything is political and climate is no exception. On way that young voters are making their voices heard is through video messages to the presidential candidates like this one from Yale students: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feDWUnVR94M.

I would encourage everyone to do something similar and to tagged them “nohotair” and “climatechallenge.”

What other awesome ideas do folks have for changing the climate around climate?

By: Juliana

Juliana — Mon, 21 May 2007 08:16:06 +0000

I think it’s great that you summed up what candidates are doing, and I’m excited to see the first serious round of candidates trying to outdo each other on climate. However, the frontrunners have yet to get serious about the kind of action we need. So far I feel like we (with the exception of Courtney) have not actually engaged presidential candidates in challenging their global warming platforms. We can’t just sit by and hope that they will improve. To make sure that any candidate we might elect has a strong climate platform, we need to ramp up the pressure while they are still fiddling with their platforms.

By: Amy Ortiz

Amy Ortiz — Mon, 21 May 2007 03:58:49 +0000

On the topic of a moratorium on new coal plants, Florida students are getting more engaged in the fight against dirty coal, and we would be interested in collaborating on such a petition

By: Jonathan Maslow

Jonathan Maslow — Mon, 21 May 2007 02:31:59 +0000

Richard: Good post. Can’t understand why no one else commented. It’s a busy, crazy blogosphere. Two points in response: why did you miss Dodd’s carbon tax proposal, which is really the most interesting, if still somewhat vague, plank out there. Also, you should take a look at McCain’s bill (with Lieberman). I’m not saying it doesn’t favor the nuclear industry, which it does (and industry in general; but it also has a whole range of ambitious attempts at propelling technological innovation far beyond what any Democrat has spelled out. I’m not sure all of it makes sense or is good. But McCain-Liebermann is definitely worth a look if you want to see the best of political philosophy about technological innovation.
Also, I wanted to ask, my web newspaper “The Energy Independent” http://www.theenergyindependent.com is about to start a petition drive for a moratorium on new coal-burning plants. Do you know any college/youth movement groups working on the same or interested to find out about collaborating?
Let me know and if you like our site we can trade links. Thanks. jm

By: University Update

University Update — Sat, 19 May 2007 08:29:03 +0000

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