League of Conservation Voters and MoveOn Want to ask the Candidates about Energy and Global Warming

The League of Conservation Voters, LCV, and Move On.Org are asking people to urge TV news reporters to ask the candidates about Global Warming, Climate Change, and Energy. People at LCV and MoveOn have noticed that the candidates were asked about Global Warming six times. They were asked about extra-terrestrials three times.Click here, for the Move On page, here , for the League of Conservation page.

Move On and LCV have also partnered with local groups like Environment New Jersey in this effort (click here)

Popular Logistics endorses this effort. Before reviewing the questions I’d like to ask, I would like to note, for the record, an observation.

The debate Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008, between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, sponsored by CNN, the LA Times, and Politico, and broadcast on CNN, like everything broadcast on CNN, provided opportunities for commercials. The advertisers included the coal industry.

Here are the questions I’d like to ask:

  1. Given the urgency of global warming, will you commit to take action on the issue in your first 100 days in office? If yes, what specifically would you do?
  2. Will you commit invest in and deploy clean renewable energy technologies, including solar, wind, geothermal, marine current, cogeneration and conservation?
  3. Will you commit to cutting our use of old fashioned or problemmatic technologies, including coal, oil and nuclear — which are neither clean nor renewable?
  4. Will you push a mandatory cap on emissions that achieves at least a 20 percent reduction by the end of next decade?
  5. Will you call a major international summit on global warming in your first 60 days and work to sign a new international treaty by the end of your first year?

We want to know where all the candidates stand on global warming, climate change, and energy, and what they would do as President.

We also want to know how CNN can be expected to ask tough questions about energy policy, global warming, and climate change when it relies on advertising revenue from an energy industry which by it’s existence, is triggering global warming and climate change? Should the debates be sponsored by non-commercial interests?