John McCain visited a wind technology plant in Portland Monday to tell the world that America wouldn’t fritter away another eight years before confronting global climate change.
It’s a message that the world needs to hear, from the halls of Congress in Washington to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. At Republicans for Environmental Protection, we thought it was a good speech, so we sent out a press release calling attention to it.
That’s when the creatures from the Internet black lagoon emerged, dripping with scorn about “tree-hugging morons” and filling up our president’s in-box with scientifically illiterate swamp gas about the global warming “hoax.”
The following day, a Tuesday, I attended a forum about environmental issues that McCain held near Seattle with a panel of Washington State business leaders, political dignitaries, and an Eagle Scout. He talked about seeing firsthand the impacts of climate change in the polar regions, developing energy technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and his confidence that America has the smarts to solve the problem, no matter what the doom-and-gloom, it-can't-be-done hand-wringers on the political right say. ...
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