GOP Squares Off on Global Warming

by: Kilgore

Wed Oct 17, 2007 at 09:34:22 AM MST

The main reason I thought to ask "Gore '08?" was not some inclination that Gore would then ride into the race on a white horse, jousting all comers.  To the contrary, it is unlikely that would happen.  One of our more conservative readers immediately suggested that the Nobel committee was participating in a political stunt, completely ignoring the fact that the committee itself indicated that Gore and the IPCC scientists would split the award.  The reason for this was that in the opinion of the committee the IPCC had  worked towards a more conservative scientific solution,  while Mr. Gore had worked towards a political advocacy solution. Note the word "political".

The award has lent even more deserved credibility to the issue of climate change to the point that GOP candidates are now changing their tune.  Fred Thompson, who several months ago scoffed at the idea that global warming even existed is now saying we should do at least some little thing to stop it.  The GOP is looking like a bunch of "flip-floppers" on this one, for sure, which in my humble opinion benefits all of the Democratic candidates.  Up until this point John McCain is the only Republican candidate who has any credibility on global warming. 

The thing is, global warming is real, it has been real for some time now, and the IPCC contains a host of scientists who are as conservative as they come, as well as a host of scientists who aren't.  This is a consensus and it spells bad news for whoever makes it onto the Republican ticket.