JoinRudy2008: America possesses 27% of the world's coal. We must commercialize clean coal technologies, including carbon sequestration, so we can utilize this vast domestic resource.
No statement on whether a Giuliani administration will issue a moratorium on coal-fired power plants that do not capture and sequester CO2.
Candidate told press on Monday February 12, 2007 in Silcon Valley that he does believe global warming in happening. "The big question has always been how much of it is happening because of natural climate changes and how much of it is happening because of human intervention,'' he said. The debate on the existence of global warming "is almost unnecessary ... because we should be dealing with pollution anyway.''
Candidate told a Hopkinton Town Hall meeting in New Hampshire on December 27, 2007 that he does not believe in emission caps of any kind.
CBS News: Katie Couric Asks The Candidates In "Primary Questions:" Is The Global Warming Threat Overblown?
Giuliani: There is global warming. Human beings are contributing to it. I think the best answer to it is energy independence. We've got more coal reserves in the us than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia. If we find a way to deal with it and use it so it doesn't hurt the environment, we're going to find ourselves not contributing to global warming and also being more energy independent. I think we have to take another look at nuclear power. France is 80 percent nuclear. We're 20, but going down to 15. We haven't had a licensed nuclear power plant in 30 years. It has to be done carefully. But we haven't lost a life to nuclear power yet. We have wind, solar, hydroelectric, hybrid vehicles. All these things need to be increased - and an appropriate emphasis on conservation. You can't do it with any one of these things. You can't just do conservation. Otherwise you're not going to have growth.
