This column is correct but McCain is a cheerleader for the global warming groupies and together with another faux conservative, Joe Lieberman he sponsored “The Climate Stewardship Acts” whose aim was to set “mandatory cap and trade system for greenhouse gases, as a response to the threat of anthropogenic climate change.” Fortunately, the act failed to gain enough votes to pass through the senate.In April 2007, McCain called global warming “a serious and urgent economic, environmental and national security challenge.” rsk
Obama focuses on global warming while Putin’s neo-imperialist dreams continue to spread north.
President Obama is on a three-day visit to Alaska that will include a stop north of the Arctic Circle. The focus of his trip is climate change. Some of my Senate colleagues and I recently returned from the Arctic, and while we saw the challenges of melting polar ice, we also saw a greater and more immediate threat. It is a menace that many assumed was relegated to the past: an aggressive, militarily capable Russian state that is ruled by an anti-American autocrat, hostile to our interests, dismissive of our values, and seeking to challenge the international order that U.S. leaders of both parties have maintained for seven decades.
Vladimir Putin’s neo-imperial ambitions are clear enough in his attempt to dominate Russia’s neighbors, Ukraine most of all. But his ambitions increasingly extend to the Arctic and Europe’s northern flank. That is where I and my colleagues met with leaders and security officials from Norway, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.