Joe Lieberman Quotes
Global warming and climate change is a big problem. It requires a big solution.
Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut Attorney General, U. S. Senator (Democrat, CT), Advocating for The Climate Security Act, June 2, 2008
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Many Republicans were in denial about climate change claiming that all the scientists were wrong about the facts of global warming and the danger to man that it posed. Beauprez, however, had an almost unique position among candidates. He agreed that climate change was a great danger, however, he thought the concern of most Democrats and some liberal Republicans was unnecessary hysteria because God will save the Earth—His creation.
His Virgin Group companies founded a biofuels research and production company.
Many environmentalists who urgently tried to reduce man’s use of fossil fuels, objected when clean energy windmills were proposed. They objected to the possible damage to flying birds and the aesthetic degradation of the landscape.
This was his last House debate and whereas almost all scientists had agreed that climate change was a serious challenge to the nation, an ideologically driven majority of his Republican Party denied that that there was any climate change that was different from the usual vicissitudes of nature, he tried to persuade his anti-scientific, conservative colleagues to face reality.
Joseph Isadore Lieberman is an American politician, lobbyist and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. A former member of the Democratic Party, he was its nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2000 election. During his final term in office he was officially listed as an independent Democrat and caucused with and chaired committees for the Democratic Party.