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...mention promoting green jobs at a time when unemployment is on the rise.) The challenge will be tactical: convincing Americans that curbing climate change is as much about overhauling a failed economy as it is about limiting carbon emissions. That message didn't get across during the debates over Lieberman-Warner; the next President and Congress will need to do better. "Addressing greenhouse gases and addressing the economy are all part of the same problem," says Barbour. "This is absolutely a top priority. It can't be postponed forever...
...prices outplayed fears of melting Arctic ice, the Republican call to "drill, baby, drill" got louder and more popular, eventually pushing Democrats, including Barack Obama, to publicly support some amount of offshore drilling. The flip-flopping came on the heels of the Senate's defeat of the Warner-Lieberman bill - the first real attempt to pass federal cap-and-trade legislation - thanks in part to fears raised by Republicans that a carbon cap would further increase energy prices. "America's growing dependence on fossil fuels, once viewed as a Democratic trump card...has become a lodestone instead," wrote the green...
...That problem had nothing to do with us,” Lieberman said of last spring’s controversy...
...kind of a way to have a party,” Lieberman said, explaining that “if you go to an African village and you give them something really nice, they’ll roast a goat...
...Lieberman said that about five years after the Archaeology Department’s first goat roast, he was serving as a teaching fellow and decided to hold a similar celebration in Dunster House. It was then, he said, that the annual Dunster goat roast was born...