Senators and climate

Our senators have certainly been busy on climate change policy. Sen. Olympia Snowe co-chairs an international climate change policy group backed by George Soros. Sen. Susan Collins has junketed to the Arctic and Antarctic to highlight the issue.

Both senators have backed Sen. John McCain’s Kyoto-style efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Neither senator has followed up Maine’s new bipartisan sound science in climate change policy law which called for an honest estimation of how much global warming emission reduction efforts would avert and at what cost.

Neither senator has been willing to obtain congressional approval to the new interstate Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative as Article 1, section 10 of the U.S. Constitution clearly requires.

Neither senator has seen fit to back the Asian Pacific Climate Change Agreement that brought India and China into the policy tent with President Bush.

At least we know which side of the climate change policy pulpit they stand on.

Jon Reisman

Cooper