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Kerry & Gingrich Debate Global Warming Solutions

-- Mike -- 04/10/2007

Appearing before a standing room only crowd in the Russell Senate Office Building, Senator John Kerry and former Speaker Newt Gingrich debated the issue of global warming. However, the debate was not marked by a discussion of the existence of global warming, but rather a thoughtful exchange of ideas over how best to solve the growing climate crisis.

To solve global warming, Gingrich suggested that we need "a new science- and technology-based, entrepreneurial, market-oriented and locally led environmentalism." He later added that "regulation and litigation are the least effective ways of getting solutions."

Kerry, for his part, argued for greater government involvement to help spur necessary investments in technology. "Within the next decade, if we don't deal with global warming, our children and grandchildren will have to deal with global catastrophe. We need big changes to fix a big problem. We can't ‘middle' our way there," Kerry said.

One of the event's most interesting exchanges, though, involved the Senate's most dubious global warming denier:

Kerry: I'm excited to hear you talk about the urgency, I really am. And given that - albeit you still sort of have a different approach - what would you say to Senator Inhofe and to others in the Senate who are resisting even the science? What's your message to them here today?

Gingrich: My message I think is that the evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere...

Kerry: And to it urgently, and now?

Gingrich: And do it urgently. Yes.

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by Andrew Snow

by Andrew Snow