“In April, as Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) were about to unveil their bi-partisan bill, Reid blindsided the trio by suggesting that he wanted to put climate on hold and move immigration reform to the top of the agenda.”

It wasn’t Reid who put immigration at the top of the agenda, it was Arizona passing a ridiculous law that did that for him. Also you mention 2 bipartisan bills that only have 1 Republican co-sponsor but zero leadership support from Republicans.

Well, if by PhD you mean Pin Headed Dufus, then Limbaugh, Beck, Palin, Levin, etc. all certainly qualify. And judging from their shticks, they appear to be passing on their lack of knowledge to others quite fervently.

The GOP will never admit to climate change or renewable green energy for this nation. It will be up to the Democrats to insist on leading the way, however formidable the road is towards it.

Remember – it wasn’t until Russia put Yuri Gagarin into space that Kennedy inspired Americans with the ‘first on the moon’ space race. Republicans are like ostriches…they still got their heads in the sands. We need progressives in DC from here on in.

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http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100713/full/466308a.html

That’s an especially hard negotiation since we’ve been polluting for a lot longer.

We’re supposed to be a city on a hill–a leader, not a follower. The sooner we incentivize and develop the technology, for us and the rest of the world, the better.

Also, surely if we don’t curb our emissions, expect to see significant tariffs on our products, and probably trade wars (although there will probably be a lot of other things to worry about as well, this is just one example).

That argument suffered a big blow when President Obama could not convince China and India to cap their carbon emissions. The Senate faced the prospect of passing cap-and-trade, and then watching factories in the U.S. close down because of higher energy prices while factories in China and India revved up production. It would have hurt the U.S. economy without doing anything to help global warming.

To make a cap on carbon emissions work, you’ve got to have the entire industrialized world participating. That is admittedly a tough task, and the Obama Administration couldn’t pull it off. It’s the failure to persuade China and India, not the opposition of Republicans, that doomed cap-and-trade.

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/07/research_desk_graphs_more_fili.html