In the current environment of climate hysteria, the Republican 2000 Environmental Platform emphasizes caution and restraint. Complex and contentious issues like global warming call for a far more realistic approach than that of the Kyoto Conference.
More research is needed to understand both the cause and the impact of global warming.
That is why the Kyoto treaty was repudiated in a lopsided, bipartisan Senate vote. These are sound ideas. But, even though the Republican s appear to take a strong stance against the Kyoto Protocol and against unproven claims of future climate disaster, they don t seem entirely convinced that carbon dioxide isn t a problem. A Republican president will work with businesses and with other nations to reduce harmful emissions through new technologies without compromising America s sovereignty or competitiveness and without forcing Americans to walk to work. The fact is, neither George Bush nor Al Gore can demonstrate that the net effect of an increase in the atmosphere s concentration of carbon dioxide is a bad thing.