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 [The Coffee House] Obama speaks for the environment.: Yesterday Obama made a statement regards the US Climate Chnage Bill;. We can’t afford more of the same timid politics when the future of our planet is at stake.

 [Politics on huffingtonpost.com] Stefan Roberts: Can Barack Obama Really Stop The Climate Crisis ...: The US needs to take a firm lead in battling climate change and not just join (*cough* Kyoto *cough*) the fight, but pioneer it. And this is the reason why, at the moment, the Obama plan for the environment is not up to scratch.

 [Chrisy58's Weblog] As Climate Bill Dies, Greens Express Hope: But, instead of debating the bill’s main features on the merits, the Republican leadership relied on procedural manoeuvres, including the threat of a filibuster, to derail the proposed legislation. On Wednesday, several Republican senators demanded that the clerk of the Senate read the nearly 500-page bill in its entirety, thus holding up business for some 10 hours.

[Sierra Club Allegheny Group] Federal Climate Change Action Cancelled for 2008: After a couple of days of delaying tactics by Republicans, last Friday, June 6, the Democratic leadership attempted to move for a vote on S.3036. The measure used was a vote for cloture.

[Global Warming is Real] Climate Security Act Debate Lasts One Week (barely) on the Senate ...: The Senate’s consideration of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act this week marked a significant milestone in the effort to turn the tide on global climate change. Fifty-four senators, including Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and John .

 [The Washington Independent - US news and politics - washingtonindependent.com] Senate Kills Climate Change Bill: A reckless and cynical minority has denied the Senate—and the American people—the meaningful and long overdo debate on global warming their constituents have been clamoring for. While the Senate leadership and a bi-partisan group of Senators sought to debate the solutions to our ever-deepening environmental and economic crises, the Republican leadership instead used theatrics to tie the Senate in knots for the sole purpose of "making political points."

 [1read's Weblog] THE WORLD today!: Pope Benedict XVI said the world needed to care for the environment, but not to the point where the welfare of animals and plants was given a greater priority than that of mankind, attacking climate change prophets of doom, warning that any solution to global warming must be based on firm evidence and on an agreement of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting environmental balances. According to the International Energy Agency/IEA the world needs to invest about $45 Trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1.400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and prevent energy shortages, within a new global energy revolution, transforming the way we produce and use energy.

[GOPachy - All Discussions] The Audacity of the Democrats: They preside over an institution advised and influenced by moneyed, non-governmental groups and individuals with unquestionably anti-US agendas who help make the Party a pseudo-intellectual sinkhole filled with perverse, tried-and-failed ideas repulsive to the majority of Americans. Those ideas are shaped into agendas which are then forced on the public by an activist leftwing judiciary and by a major media and arts consortium shot through with utter disrespect, indeed contempt, for traditional American values, religions and institutions.

 [Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Daily News: But in Europe, which claims to be a leader in the climate change battle, Environment Day passed with barely a blip.” . The Climate Bill: Stalled. Posted by Kate Sheppard, Grist, June 4, 2008. ...

 [CTD Weblog] DEMOCRATIC PARTY HATES AMERICA: Until recently in our history, a President Barack Obama would have been an impossibility. But given the political and ideological climate that exists today in America, the ascension of a leftist like Barack Obama into presidential .

[Ron Paul Blog] A Ron Paul Republican responds to Barack Obama’s speech: Of course, many of the dictators from whom we acquire our oil are the same dictators that we support with foreign aid!  Perhaps I am mistaken, but I have not heard Senator Obama speak out against foreign aid that we send to Saudi Arabia.  Moreover, Obama does not recognize the role that the falling dollar has had on gas prices (gas prices in terms of gold have been largely constant).  Nor does he recognize that oil prices also are increasing because of increasing demand in parts of the world such as China, over which we have little control.  And of course, that increasing demand in China has been used to produce goods that we as Americans consume cheaply.  As addressed earlier, while it’s true that we are dependent on many countries for our oil, it is curious that Senator Obama does not single out the inability (due to environmentalist pressure) to build new refineries in the United States (we have not built a new refinery in over 30 years).  Increased demand from more Americans, coupled with decreased supply (both in terms of fewer refineries and an unwillingness to drill for additional oil in places where we know it exists, such as Anwar and the Gulf of Mexico) is also contributing to increase our prices.  But Obama does not propose lifting such restrictions, instead favoring policies of energy independence and cap-and-trade, which as mentioned earlier will only serve to increase consumer prices.

 [Chrisy58's Weblog] The Way to a Just Foreign Policy: Although both Clinton and Obama have called for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo, neither has challenged the “global war on terror” framework. Nor have they called for closing the Guantanamo base or any of the other 700-plus U.S. military bases around the world.

[Tom Hull] Book Browsing: Part 6: James Gustave Speth: The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing From Crisis to Sustainability (2008, Yale University Press): An urgent brief for sustainability, willing even to dispense with such a political sacred cow as capitalism. I agree that trends that cannot be sustained will break sooner or later;

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