ArchWeek Green 2009.0420
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Mon Apr 20 11:32:20 PDT 2009
Dear Designers, Builders, and Friends,
ArchWeek Green, from the editors of the leading architecture magazine
online, brings you weekly sustainable design and building news from
around our planet.
Joe Romm of Climate Progess gives a detailed dissection to the
comments of House Minority Leader John Boehner (R, OH) in a
recent ABC News interview. Here's just a bit of the discussion.
With two days until Earth Day 2009, it's clear we have a long
way to go.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me ask you then about energy. We showed
your statement on the president's decision through the EPA
to regulate greenhouse gases. Also, you've come out against
the president's proposal to cap-and-trade carbon emissions.
So what is the Republican answer to climate change? Is it a
problem? Do you have a plan to address it?
BOEHNER: George, we believe that our all of the above
energy strategy from last year continues to be the right
approach on energy. That we ought to make sure that we have
new sources of energy, green energy, but we need nuclear
energy, we need other types of alternatives, and, yes, we
need American-made oil and gas.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But that doesn't do anything when it comes
to emissions, sir.
BOEHNER: When it comes to the issue of climate change,
George, it's pretty clear that if we don't work with other
industrialized nations around the world, what's going to
happen is that we're going to ship millions of American jobs
overseas. We have to deal with this in a responsible way.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So what is the responsible way? That's my
question. What is the Republican plan to deal with carbon
emissions, which every major scientific organization has
said is contributing to climate change?
BOEHNER: George, the idea that carbon dioxide is a
carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost
comical. Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide.
Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do,
you've got more carbon dioxide. And so I think it's clear...
Yes, it certainly is! And if not yet, then the interview with
annotations at Joe's blog, including helpful supporting links,
shines further light.
House GOP Leader Boehner Denies Dangers of Carbon Dioxide - Climate Progress (blog), 2009.0420
http://climateprogress.org/2009/04/20/house-gop-leader-boehner-abc-global-warming-carbon-dioxide-is-a-carcinogen-comical/
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Green and Sustainable Design and Building News This Week
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