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Carbon 2
Tue Jun 17, 2003
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Hi, I'm Bryan Yeaton with The Weather Notebook's weekly Climate Change segment. In New
Hampshire, a new, bipartisan organization, The Carbon Coalition, is hoping to get its message
to the people by actually going to the people. Ted Leach is a Republican state legislator, and
co-chair of the Coalition.
The fastest way to a politician, in any party, is through his constituents. As we educate the
public in this state and they start bringing this issue to the forefront, the politicians will
listen.
Joe Keefe is the Coalition's other co-chair:
We're going to do it the old fashioned way, the way we always have in NH, town by town, and
let the voice of the NH citizens hopefully impact the Presidential Primary and through the
process of the Presidential Primary put global warming on the front burner as a major public
policy issue in this nation.
US Congressman Jeb Bradley believes that what's good for the environment can also be good for
the economy.
I think that what we are starting to see is that the science is pretty compelling; it's not
irrefutable yet, but it is very compelling. And a number of American businesses are starting
to plan for a day when they are going to have to either trade for carbon credits, or reduce
carbon.
For Ted Leach, this issue shouldn't get bogged down by party squabbles.
Well, I don't think either one of us feels that the environment is a partisan thing. I mean,
we're all in this together, and that's how we'll solve it.
The Weather Notebook is supported by Subaru of America and The National Science Foundation.
Special funding for this series comes from the Roy A. Hunt Foundation. Thanks today to the
entire Weather Notebook staff, Doug Sanborn, Melody Nester, Sean Doucette, and Peter Crane.
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