John McCain: Unrepentant Climate Change Republican; Update: Lindsay Graham pushes carbon caps
Ladies and gentlemen, I call your attention to the key passage in unrepentant Climate Change Republican John McCain’s Senate floor statement yesterday on cap-and-trade. Note well (hat tip: Edward John Craig/Planet Gore):
Let me say to my colleagues, I am proud of my record on climate change. I have been all over the world, and I have seen climate change. I know it is real, and I will be glad to continue this debate with my colleagues and people who do not agree with that. I believe climate change is real.
More than three months after the ClimateGate scandal broke and despite relentless new disclosures every week about the fraud, misconduct, and distortions that have served as the underpinnings of AGW theory, McCain still believes climate change “is real.”
He is “proud,” my friends, of his global warming tour and rigged Senate hearings, his flip-flops on offshore drilling, and his longtime cap-and-tax flirtations.
While even Democrat slow learners are beginning to push back against the EPA war on carbon, McCain is still siding with the cultists.
I repeat:
Attention, GOP: John McCain is the problem.
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Commenter b-cat: “‘I have been all over the world, and I have seen climate change.‘ How is this possible? It is supposed to happen so slowly no one notices. It is akin to saying I have been all over the world, and I have seen evolution. We’re talking about small percentage points of a single degree over the course of a century.”
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Update: Via Michael O’Brien of The Hill, here comes the Climate Change Republican Bobsy Twin…
Comprehensive climate change legislation can’t get the votes to pass in the Senate without a cap on carbon emissions, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Thursday.
Graham, one of the three Senate negotiators on a compromise climate bill, said that lawmakers could advance a cap on carbon emissions, but not the cap-and-trade system that’s been proposed in Congress and passed by the House.
“Cap and trade to regulate to regulate carbon is not going to work,” Graham said during an appearance on the Keith Larson radio show. “And at another time, I’ll tell you a way to price carbon that will create energy independence and a green economy: You can cap carbon without doing the cap and trade bill.”
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Update: Brooke Buchanan from McCain’s office e-mails:
Saw your recent post on your blog and wanted to let you know the floor statement was dated wrong on the website and since been updated (see link below). Senator McCain actually gave the floor speech on March, 19 2009. I would appreciate updating your post to reflect.
http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.FloorStatements&ContentRecord_id=fc9fe108-cefb-5625-da0c-ae792f8ee497&Region_id=&Issue_id=
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How is this possible? It is supposed to happen so slowly no one notices. It is akin to saying I have been all over the world, and I have seen evolution. We’re talking about small percentage points of a single degree over the course of a century.
John McCain is a climate gate denier…a warmist…
The answer will be found in his appointment book and his campaign war chest. This guy is going to be looking for a new job in November. Lobbyist for the Chinese solar panel and wind turbine dumping industry?
John, you have my upmost respect as a war hero, as a Senator, not so much.
May I direct you to our fine line of personalized ice floes. You can have it in any color as long as it’s white (racism alert!). Safe travels.
Why do I have this nightmare feeling that he’s going to run for president again and the media will make sure he is our nominee?
Has he been to Pluto too?
Pluto recently went through a phase of Global Warming
When it comes to this issue, it’s undoubtedly the biggest evidence that this man is an insufferable RINO who wants to use government to force American citizens to change over 200 years of a lifestyle centered around freedom and liberty into the same mindset as the rest of the world–subservience and serfdom.
And even at that, how was it measured, and how was a baseline established?
Did he back away from claiming that climate change is anthropogenic? If so, then that’s a step in the right direction.
Because
The Coming Ice AgeGlobal Warming“Climate Change” is an ersatz religion, getting its believers to renounce their faith is going to be as difficult as it would be to get a Christian to stop believing in the divinity of Christ.Good luck with that.
It’s up to the voters in Arizona to decide whether to keep McCain around. I hope they won’t … but I don’t live in Arizona.
But, but, he is a republican so we have to vote for him!!!
This is no surprise coming from mcamnesty. He believes the only solution to the illegal alien invasion is to reward them with amnesty. That kind of warped logic just spills over into the global warming discussion. With all the new news on the subject lately, one would think he would at least reconsider his position. But nope, not mcamnesty. He never changed his mind on amnesty even after the vast majority of Americans opposed it and he won’t change his mind on global warming. Idiot!!!
Ahhhhhhh Senator, it is a matter of science, not a matter of faith.
Where’s the data?
God forgive me…but, what a dangerous fool.
I agree, somebody needs to take the car keys away from Grampy!
Everyday, I’m more and more proud of my Vote for Chuck Baldwin.
It would have been nice if in 2008, the right wing media had stuck to principles, and not encourage everyone to vote for this man.
Obama was a great gift to the GOP. A McCain win would have further destroyed the GOP.
I’m reading Andrew Napolitano’s great new book: Lies The Government Told You, and in it, he thinks that we all need to think outside the two party box, and vote for those who will Defend and Protect the Constitution. I could not agree more..
I want to throw up through my eyes when I hear a Republican say he believes in global warming.
I have come to believe that anyone who believes and promotes “global warming” is actually an alien, disguised as a human.
I believe in aliens now. There is no other explanation.
Human caused climate change is a fantasy.
Climate change is real.
We’re 15 degrees warmer today than we were 18000 years ago, and we’ll continue on the general warming trend despite any job killing, economy destroying “solutions” brought about by a bunch of nincompoops in DC.
Be skeptical of AGW. Read every challenge to the theory at the link below and make up your own mind. http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php
So the fires to warm people for eons in virtually every part of the globe didn’t cause global warming, but the lowly automobile in America for the past 70 years has created this catastrophe which will destroy the planet. Absolute crap. America is the only country which has had widespread auto use since the 40s and 50s, europe was putting around on mopeds into the 70s, and asia didn’t have cars until, oh wait they still don’t. Toyota/honda put out their first cars in the 60s and were laughed at into the mid 70s gas crisis. But carbon fires have kept the chinese warm for 5000 years of recorded history. Please open your mind to an obvious money scam to transfer wealth from rich nations to poor by communists in the U.N.
Sorry.
Had to add that for the sake of completeness.
Who’re you gonna believe? Al Gore? Or those 20 foot snowdrifts around DC?
John, you should have retired 10 years ago, when you could have gone out on top of your game.
This is great timing on McCain’s part. Great that is, for J.D.
Keep it up “my friend”.
Senator McCain, the climate has always been changing. That’s why the socialists chose this issue rather than “global warming” (brrrrr), because whatever man does or does not do, the climate will change regardless and thus be a continuous, infallible rallying cry from which private wealth and property can be wrenched (not to mention, from which population control drives in Africa and Asia can be launched).
Exactly correct.
Has been for millions of years.
And, the climate has been far hotter, and has been far colder, than we are now: before the first internal combustion engine burned gas; before the first lump of coal was burned; before fire was first used by humans.
But, that does not fit the worldview nor the goals of the dangerous fascists/socialists/statists/collectivists/nihilists/ etc, etc….
I am waiting to hear the claim that glaciers are caused by global warming.
Seriously, I fully expect it.
Hahahahahaha, President John McCain, hahahahahaha.
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Hey, McCain–there’s a reason why it isn’t very green and it gets up to 110 degrees in Phoenix in the summer. It’s a desert!
How could man be responsible for solar flares or meteorites? Hmmm hmmm hmmm, there’s money to be made there, somehow.
It doesn’t matter whether it snows in Miami in July and August, nor whether it’s swimsuit weather in Frostbite Falls, Mn in January.
We just cannot extrapolate instantaneous observations/events, nor even records of a few decades, or even a couple of centuries, onto climate changes that occur over tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of years.
It would be as accurate and meaningful as estimating the overall % grade – decline or incline – of a thousand-mile stretch of highway by looking at a tiny bump, or at a slight dip, in the road surface in front of one’s car.
The surest way of driving working-class independent-minded Democrats living in energy producing areas like the central Appalachians firmly back into voting their own party’s straight ticket, is for high-profile Republicans like Sen McCain to make such statements in public.
You too? I thought I was the only one.
How can it be Global when the Earth is FLAT?….oh, sorry…Currently, at the moment of this writing, we here in NY are experiencing several fresh inches of our latest Global Warming Event. All I can think of on this, as far as these politicians is concerned, is follow the money. Who, in his family, is going to get richer because of this? Otherwise, the old man is just out of his mind. The man has spent way to much time outside in the Arizona sun and has baked his brain. Although, I, too, have seen the climate change…every season. And speaking of seasons, Spring Training started! Wooopeeee!
Of course climate change is real, just this week it changed from rain and 55-65 degrees to sunny and 75-80 degrees locally. For Pete’s sake John, speak clearly and accurately. Geez.
Lest anyone equate snowfall with AGW, both Washington and Jefferson recorded a 3 foot Washington DC snowfall in their diaries… in 1772, long before the first Otto or Diesel cycle was ever envisioned, long before the first automobile, long before gasoline was refined.
Yes, they did have oil in their lamps….
As I stated before, I swallowed my bile and voted for McCain last time; I will not do so again- even if Chavez is running against him.
Captain McCain,
Climate is always changing. That’s what it does. Climate changes on Mars and Venus also, without the intercession of Man.
In the 4.5 Billion years of Earth’s existence, the first 4 Billion were glacier free. Polar icecaps and mountains glaciers are a beautiful anomaly.
Errah it does get warmer every time he leave the confines of the beltway to go home. He is correct that the tempratures are going to be rising where he’s going to! I have a chair waiting here for you my ole commrade!
He’s right. I’ve seen it too. Yesterday it was 80 degrees here. Today, it’s 60.
I just know someone’s to blame for that.
Go to this website. It’s pretty dry and technical but it shows how the heat island effect is quite real. Many of the temperature reporting stations are located incorrectly. They are next to air conditioner units (forcing warm air onto the sensor), asphalt parking lots, etc. Things that make the temperature higher.
In other words, the offical climate stations are reporting (wait for it!) bad data. NO!
Whenver anyone argues that humans are causing global warming you can answer, “Why yes, we are. I have proof that it’s humans that are making the temperature go up.” Then show them the website.
On February 25th, 2010 at 12:21 pm, SpeakEasy said:
My thoughts exactly. Where I live, it was in the 70′s on Sunday and snowing this morning!
Of course “climate change” is real. What is a hoax is the notion that man has any affect on climate.
This is not about saving the planet. It is about CONTROL.
Like everything else about Progressives/Socialists/Communists, the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.
We have more oil than Saudi Arabia, but the Progressives/Socialists/Communists want to keep us dependent on Arab and Communist countries.
DRILL HERE! DRILL NOW!
McCain needs to go away now.
Flyoverman, I heard from a physicist’s mouth at UW that all the cold weather we ar seeing is a result of global warming….warming is cooling-sounds Orwellian, doesn’t it.
While I agree that mankind has an effect on global climate conditions, it amounts to a fart in Cowboy Stadium.
When he left DC it was cold, and when he got to the Bahamas it was warm. My friends.
This explains that look Jerry Jones always has.
McCain and Repubs like him are so lost it defies belief. OT there is this: interesting
On February 25th, 2010 at 11:40 am, Regulus said:
I’m ready for an “Arizona Miracle”.
Although it really shouldn’t be that hard. Remember who held that senate seat before John McCain?
Answer: Barry Goldwater
Ok, Arizona voters, I believe in you… I choose to believe that you will return this Senate seat to a true conservative.
LOL.
In my area of The People’s Socialist Quagmire of California, it always gets warm for about a week in March. It’s cold or rain just before and after that.
Must be all those Toyota Priuses belching out CO2. But wait, it’s done this for as long as anyone can remember! Hmmm. Then I guess it was the native Indians and their campfires. It has to be man made, because consensus tells us so.
Good point.
I should adjust something I said earlier. I said, “What is a hoax is the notion that man has any affect on climate.”
Man does create urban heat islands, and that affects temperature readings at improperly located temperature recording stations.
But since temperature readings at properly located temperature recording stations are not showing evidence of warming, it appears that urban heat islands do not result in global warming.
This reminds me. Washington’s soldiers left bloody footprints in the snow. We owe it to those incredible men to take back DC from the corruptocrats that infest the place now. We also need to vote out their enablers like McCain – who himself sacrificed as much for this country, but doesn’t seem to get it.
How Much money does McCain and his Limp Wrist Shadow McGrahamnesty have invested in Al Gore’s Green industry??
I have to summize that the reason anyone, in the face of ovewhelming proof that the whole Climate Change issue is a fraud..is that they are wanting a return on their investments…or they don’t want to loose what they already have tossed into the hole.
From the late 1800s into the 1900s, Los Angeles got cooler as the city grew and people planted trees, actually becoming cooler than the undeveloped areas around it.
Maybe Juan would like to show it to the IPCC
Okay I’m convinced.
Great, Graham too!
Some things never change..
It is obvious we need to limit carbon emissions from politicians. Their globe trotting is spewing more on one trip than my car does in a lifetime.
On February 25th, 2010 at 11:41 am, Flyoverman said:
Bravo, Flyoverman, bravo!
??? More windmills in somebody else’s back yard, one presumes. Energy independence, here we come…
Come to think if it, there is one example of man-caused “Climate Change” that has happened in a matter of a few decades: the destruction of the Aral Sea by the Soviets. To wit:
Crops in the region are destroyed by salt being deposited onto the land. Vast salt plains exposed by the shrinking Aral have produced dust storms, making regional winters colder and summers hotter.
Although that wouldn’t qualify as a “global” phenomenon.
We all just want you to be comfortable John. Now what temperature would be just right for you?
I believe in climate change too. Let’s see, there’s summer, fall, winter and spring. For those in the temperate zones, we see them year in and year out.
Let’s see, do I believe Al Gore, John McCain, Lindsay Graham, the fact-fudging scientists or God?
John McCain is a long lost TWIN of Arlen Specter.
The only climate change I hope McCain sees is in the temperature of the GOP and voting public. Vote him out.
So he paints JD as a whacked-out birther while he continues to embrace Al Gore’s logic. Ride that Express Johnny!!
The climate certainly does change, where I live has been both glacial and tropical. Those changes happened before mankind could have possibly influenced events.
CO2 is less than 4/100ths of 1% of the atmosphere. Man’s contribution to that is less than 20% of that 4/100ths of 1%.
How can a trace gas that is essential to life be claimed to be destroying the planet by anyone who has 2 brain cells to rub together. Oh, wait, we’re talking about John McCain and Lindsay Graham, never mind…….
It’s not possible to produce enough CO2 to change the temperature of the planet EVEN IF WE WERE TRYING TO SAVE OURSELVES FROM THE ICE AGE THAT IS COMING!
The current interglacial period has already lasted longer than most.
I just called McCain’s office and said that while his military service to the country should be lauded, this is exactly why I am donating money to JD Hayworth’s bid to unseat him in the primary. I have had it with fake conservatives. I also said that if he wants to take positions like this or his stance on immigration than he should just run as a Democrat!
cannot wait for Nov 3 when Jackass McAmnesty is history. he can go count the climate change and illegals back in AZ without being able to ruin our lives with his idiocy and treachery.
McCain is old enough to know better. Having been around since the last ice age, he should know that the climate can change over time without any assist from humans.
The climate may change but progressive Republicans never do. If Republicans take back congress this fall, but we put the same progressive Republicans back in charge, what will happen? Does anyone think they will not gravitate back to their old ways?
I think Glenn is right about these guys. They have not really changed or even admitted they were wrong. They’re just bidding their time until they can get back in power.
You can bathe a pig until it’s sparkling clean but it’ll still go back to wallowing in the mud at the first chance it gets. If we reelect progressive Republicans, they will immediately go back to deficit spending and growing the size of government. They may not do it as fast as Obama, but they’ll take us to the same destination at a slower pace.
We don’t have to drive progressives completely out of the party, we just need to purge them from leadership positions. After all, even the biggest tent is narrow at the top.
That’s a great quote.
We don’t need John McCain in the Senate, let alone in a leadership position in the Senate.
stoptheinvasion:
The most importatnt date this year isn’t in November. It is August 24, when J.D. Hayworth defeats McCain in the AZ primary.
KING WEASEL MUST GO !!!!!!!!
When I look at the GOP and hear stuff from McCain and Graham, I more and more think I’m in the Okefenokee and hearing Pogo saying, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Thank gosh for others, like Michele Bachman and Jim Demint, to restore some of my sanity.
Does anyone here from AZ know if J. D. Hayworth is truly conservative and worth my donating some $$$ to his campaign?
That updated correction made me laugh. Has McCain made any statements since March 19, 2009 to recant this statement? McCain’s office might have helped themselves more had they referred to such a statement.
And why is the effeminately unctuous co-gangster Lindsey Graham (not to be confused for timeless hotty-hot-hot beauty Lindsay Wagner) still scheming to enact new AGW legislation?
I know what McCain is talking about. I saw climate change from a plane trip to Colorado in December. What is wrong with the rest of you fools?
McCain needs to retire and take a rest. My new Virginia Republican Governor just threw his support behind him. Ugh!
So…what,is McCain going to wait for a year to pass after ClimateGate is resolved and then claim he was misled about global warming?
John McCain: “I was misled.” Yeah, there’s a real winner for you.
JD Hayworth for US Senate!!
http://www.jdforsenate.com/
Hi Brooke–
I don’t care WHEN he said it. The point is THAT he said it…says it…believes it…
My family is considering a move. Arizona would be nice if nothing other than to vote against McCain this fall.
What was it that McVain said a little while ago? Something like, “I was mislead into voting for TARP”? Hey Juan, are you 100% sure this time? I doubt it. There’s an old saying, “Fool me once…” Shame. On. You. Now go away!
Well he has been in the senate since US Grant.
I’m never sure with McClame & his little buddy Lindsey if they are sincerely numb from the belt line down or if it’s nothing more than the “DC semi-hidden agenda syndrome” in action. Either way the boys need to exit along with O’Bambi et al.