Questions for John McCain - Say Anything

You’ve expressed support for global warming legislation. Does the fact that the Earth hasn’t warmed for ten years and that 2007 was one of the coolest winters on record make you think the matter deserves more study before we act?

While we’re on the subject of global warming legislation. Polls have shown that the public is unwilling to pay more for gasoline or electricity to combat global warming. On the other hand studies show that your cap and trade legislation will nearly double the price of those energy supplies. How do you convince cash strapped families that they need to sacrifice so much for something that’s unproven?

Senator 30,000 scientists have signed the Oregon petition saying that climate science cannot guarantee that the global warming theories are correct. Does this make you reconsider your position on global warming?

Won’t doubling the cost of energy result in the loss of jobs in this country? (Follow-up question if he brings up his ridiculous statement that his cap and trade legislation will create jobs.) What economic theory says that increasing the costs of an activity results in more of that activity?

Poll of Filipinos

"For 54% of Filipinos, people have only themselves to blame for typhoons, flooding, landslides, and other calamities that occurred in the Philippines and other countries in recent months," Pulse Asia's Dr. Ana Maria Tabunda said in the firm's August 8 media release. "Religious reasons are cited by 23% of Filipinos as a whole.”

When respondents were asked what these calamities were primarily caused by, the results were:

· 54% pointed to the card which said, "Destructive ways of people who regularly abuse the environment;
· 23% pointed to the card which said, "God's warning or punishment to nations turning to evil ways";
· 18% pointed to the card which said, "Natural processes that regularly occurs worldwide;
· 5% couldn’t say or choose.