Candidate Positions

Original source: http://2008gravel.blogspot.com/2007/03/mike-gravels-views-on-climate-change.html

Global climate change must be made an issue of national security. We must act swiftly to reduce America’s carbon footprint in the world by passing legislation that caps emissions. However, any legislation will have little impact on the global environment if we do not work together with other global polluters. Fighting global warming can only be effective if it is a collective global effort.

As President, Senator Gravel will see that the U.S. launches and leads a massive global scientific effort to end energy dependence on oil and integrate the world’s scientific community to this task. A national public works program to rewire the country towards new energy technologies would create tens of thousands of new American jobs.

Original source: http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=1192

Do you want to make stopping global warming a central cause?
I don?t try to get into the middle of the science of global warming.

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But do you believe there?s a human role in climate change?
There may be. But whether there is or there isn?t, it doesn?t release us from the responsibility to be good stewards of the environment.

Original source: http://www.cfr.org/publication/13392/

Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Sen. Biden (D-DE) has been a prominent voice calling for legislation to stop climate change. In February 2007, after the release of the IPCC report, Biden urged fellow lawmakers and President Bush to take action, saying, ?We have wasted the past six years on the sidelines of international negotiations and our leadership is needed to produce a global solution.?

Biden cosponsored the Clean Power Act of 2005, a bill which would have implemented a cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon dioxide emissions had it become law. With Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-IN), Biden has proposed two Senate resolutions on global warming. They put forward the Lugar-Biden Climate Change Resolution (PDF), passed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in May 2006. More recently, Biden and Lugar proposed Senate Resolution 30, which calls for the United States to comply with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and to establish a ?bipartisan Senate observer group? to monitor international climate change negotiations.