Clinton:
*    Supports a system to cap and trade greenhouse gases with 100% auction.
*    Calls for an 80% reduction in 1990 levels of greenhouse gases by 2050.
*    Supports a "weatherization and low-income heating emergency program" and wants to "modernize and retrofit 20 million low-income homes to make them more energy efficient."
*    Is against subsidies for nuclear energy but is not clearly against nuclear energy. Is both for and against subsidies for "clean coal" but is not against "clean coal. Supports "a phased-in requirement to have new coal plants capture and store carbon, starting with pilot projects to test the technology, as well as federal support to offset some of the costs."
*    Supports international agreements with mandatory limits on greenhouse gases.
*    Wants to end the dependence on foreign oil. Platform states she wants to "Cut foreign oil imports by two-thirds from projected levels by 2030." Sees green energy as a way to deal with recession. States that "we need to look at how doing what is right about energy is not only good for our security and good for the fight against global warming, but it will be essential in dealing with the economic challenges that we face." Wants "aggressive action to transition our economy toward renewable energy sources, with renewables generating 25% of electricity by 2025 and with 60 billion gallons of home-grown biofuels available for cars and trucks by 2030"
*    Supports green tech and green jobs. Wants to "transform our carbon-based economy into an efficient green economy, creating at least 5 million jobs from clean energy over the next decade." Supports "a $50 billion Strategic Energy Fund, paid for in part by oil companies, to fund investments in alternative energy...[and a] doubling of federal investment in basic energy research"
*    Supports fuel economy increases "to 55 miles per gallon by 2030, and $20 billion of "Green Vehicle Bonds" to help U.S. automakers retool their plants to meet the standards." Says that "if Congress is unable to act, then I will use administrative authority to achieve an increase in fleet-wide fuel efficiency of at least 10 miles per gallon over the next decade. I also support adoption of a low fuel carbon fuel standard to fuel the growth of the renewable energy market."

McCain:
*    Supports cap-and-trade legislation. Supports S. 2191: America's Climate Security Act of 2007, also known as the Lieberman-Warner bill. Has been a proponent of such a system for a long time; however, he is threatening to not support the bill unless it includes massive subsidies for nuclear power.
*    Supports a 65% cut by 2050.
*    Calls global warming "an issue we can no longer afford to ignore."
*    Supports green tech, also supports nuclear energy and "clean coal". "I strongly support greater reliance on nuclear power." On clean coal, "it must be a national mission to develop a catalyst capable of breaking down carbon dioxide into useful chemical building blocks, and render it a new source of revenue and opportunity. Doing so will enable us to take advantage of our most abundant energy sources while meeting our clean air and climate stewardship obligations." Would let the market address coal plants through cap-and-trade and would not propose moratoriums.
*    Supports international agreements with mandatory limits on greenhouse gases if countries like India and China are on board.
*    Wants to end the dependence on foreign oil.
*    Supports technological solutions to global warming: "I believe that the use of advanced materials and other technologies including alternatively fueled vehicles, flexibly fueled vehicles, and plug-in hybrid vehicles can help us meet our objectives successfully."
*    Has "supported aggressive CAFE standards in the past and will continue to work to increase CAFE standards to a level that is practical and achievable for all new vehicles, foreign and domestic, because improved fuel economy will help our nation achieve national energy security, reduce carbon emissions, and improve local and regional air quality."
*    Does not believe in setting a renewable portfolio standard but believes that the market will create this with the establishment of environmental regulation.
*    Promotes energy conservation and efficiency.

It sounds like these politicians have wonderful plans to end the inevitable, right? Well, according to NASA, the Weather Channel, and many scientists and climatologists, man-made Global Warming seems to be nothing more than a hopped up hysteria and myth. Of course the media is silencing such factual evidence.

Such evidence includes that four chief global temperature tracking departments have released records showing that temperatures have dropped drastically over the last year. California meteorologist Anthony Watts says that, "the amount of cooling ranges from 65-hundreths of a degree Centigrade to 75-hundreds of a degree." That is a rate hefty enough to erase nearly all the Global Warming documented over the last 100 years. It is seemingly the single fastest temperature change ever recorded.

Furthermore, some scientists contend the "cooling is the result of reduced solar activity" - which they say is a "larger driver of climate change than any man-made greenhouse gases could produce." With evidence of other plants warming up and cooling off it is only logical to assume the sun does not give off constant heat.

So, does it make sense to spend billions of dollars, regulate the auto industry, and command private citizens to purchase florescent light bulbs all to cease the non-existent man-made Global Warming hype? I will let you decide, it obviously does not take the intelligence of a scientist to solve this puzzle.

Chaz Oswald
First Vice Chairman of the MFCR