FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 11 December 2007
Contact: Josh Dorner, 202.675.2384
David Willett, 202.491.6919

Leading Presidential Contenders, Except Thompson
All Acknowledge Reality of Global Warming in New Interviews
Sierra Club Distributes Clean Energy Future Checklists in Early States

Washington, D.C--In interviews to be broadcast this evening on the CBS
Evening News with Katie Couric, all of the leading presidential contenders,
except for Sen. Fred Thompson, acknowledge that global warming is
happening. Each responded to the question, "Is the global warming threat
overblown?" Only Sen. Fred Thompson and Gov. Mike Huckabee express any
doubts about the overwhelming scientific consensus that global warming is
real, is happening, and is a result of human activity.

The Sierra Club is continuing its ongoing global warming education projects
in New Hampshire and Iowa as those states prepare to make critical choices
in their first-in-the-nation contests. As part of these efforts, the
Sierra Club is distributing "Clean Energy Future" checklists in these two
early states.

To view the interview transcript in full:
http://sierraclub.typepad.com/cleanenergywatch/2007/12/cbs-evening-new.html

To view the Iowa and New Hampshire Clean Energy Future Checklists:
http://sierraclub.typepad.com/cleanenergywatch/2007/12/election-08-cle.html


Statement of Cathy Duvall, Sierra Club Political Director

"In marked contrast with the current administration’s years of denial and
evasion on this issue, it is extremely satisfying that nearly all of the
leading candidates from both parties acknowledge that global warming is
real and must be dealt with.

"The leading Democratic contenders have gone a step further and proposed
bold, visionary and highly-detailed proposals to combat global warming and
put us on the road to energy independence.

"Among Republicans, Sen. McCain has long been an important advocate on this
issue and Gov. Huckabee has also recently expressed his support for a
cap-and-trade approach to fighting global warming.

"The key question is whether this concern about global warming translates
into support for more of the same outdated, failed energy technologies of
the past or whether addressing the challenge becomes an opportunity to move
us in a different direction by jumpstarting the new clean energy economy.
We are distributing Clean Energy Future checklists in both Iowa and New
Hampshire so that regardless of their party, citizens can check where the
candidates stand on the policies necessary to bring America’s new energy
future to life."

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