Kemp: Let's Debate "Global Warming"
    (c) The Associated Press
    AP-NY-12-28-97
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Should Jack Kemp be the Republican presidential
    nominee against Vice President Al Gore in 2000, he has one issue
    primed and ready: global warming.
    "I frankly am going to take him head on on this issue and tell the
    American people the truth that they are not the cause of the warming
    of the Earth," Kemp said on "Fox News Sunday."
    "If it was so important to Al Gore, why did he suggest that we're not
    going to meet any standards until after he is even projected in his
    wildest dreams to leave office in 2008?"
    The delay is a part of the recent international agreement reached in
    Kyoto, Japan, to reduce greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
    Gore, noted for his environmental work, headed the U.S. delegation.
    Kemp, the unsuccessful GOP vice-presidential nominee in 1996,
    questioned Sunday whether the agreement was even needed.
    Specifically, he criticized Gore's "almost neo-Malthusian conviction
    that unless we have more regulations, more taxes and more allocation
    of energy, or redistribution of energy of wealth to the Third World,
    we're not going to be able to solve a problem that, I believe, can be
    solved with technology, if there is a problem."
    A White House spokesman, who asked not to be identified, said a
    problem does exist and that Gore played a key role at Kyoto in trying
    to resolve it.
    "A wide range of experts have documented that this is a serious
    problem that we confront, and we need a global solution," the
    spokesman said. "The Kyoto agreement is the first step in that
    process."
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