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US Elections

McCain Disagrees with President Bush on Climate Change

Posted on: May 13, 2008

Republican Presidential candidate John McCain disagrees with President Bush on mandatory limit on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States to combat climate change.

Sen. McCain promised to work with EU to diplomatically slot in India and China, which are considered as two of the world’s major polluters to participate in an international agreement to slow global warming.

“I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears, I will not permit eight long years to pass without serious action on serious challenges” Mr. McCain said to The New York Times.

Mr. McCain went so far as to call for penalizing tariffs against China and India if they evaded international standards on emissions, but he omitted the threat in his delivered remarks.

His supporters say that he has decided to soften his language because he thought he could be misinterpreted as being opposed to free trade, which is a central tenet of his campaign and Republican orthodoxy.

But ironically Mr. McCain is frequently highlighting the threat of climate change recently; he so far has mixed record on the environmental matters in Senate.

Mr. McCain has missed votes on toughening fuel economy standards and has opposed tax breaks meant to encourage alternative energy. But in the recent years he has pushed legislation to curb emissions that contribute to climate change.

Mr. McCain supported “cap-and-trade” system in which power plants and other polluters could meet limits on heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide by either reducing emissions on their own or buying credits from more efficient producers.

McCain’s difference on climate change with Bush administration means that the three main presidential candidates have embraced swifter action to fight global warming.

Mr. McCain in fact is the only Republican candidate to call for mandatory limits on heat-trapping gases, and moreover his target for reducing emissions is lower than that of Senators Clinton and Obama.

“As we move toward all of these goals, and over time put the age of fossil fuels behind us, we must consider every alternative source of power, and that includes nuclear power.” Mr. McCain said to The New York Times while stressing on the cleaner sources of energy to replace the burning of coal and oil.