Ellen Goodman: Political Climate Change Needed (Truthdig)

[marmar]

Political Climate Change Needed

Posted on Feb 7, 2007
By Ellen Goodman

BOSTON—On the day that the latest report on global warming was released, I went out and bought a light bulb. OK, an environmentally friendly, compact fluorescent light bulb.

No, I do not think that if everyone lit just one little compact fluorescent light bulb, what a bright world this would be. Even the Prius in our driveway doesn’t do a whole lot to reduce my carbon footprint, which is roughly the size of the Yeti lurking in the (melting) Himalayas. But it was either buying a light bulb or pulling the covers over my head. And it was too early in the day to reach for that kind of comforter.

By every measure, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change raises the level of alarm. The fact of global warming is “unequivocal.” The certainty of the human role is now somewhere over 90 percent. Which is about as certain as scientists ever get.

I would like to say we’re at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let’s just say that global-warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.

But light bulbs aside—I now have three and counting—I don’t expect that this report will set off some vast political uprising. The sorry fact is that the rising world thermometer hasn’t translated into political climate change in America. .....(more)

The rest of the article is at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070207_political_climate_change_needed/

[Tellurian]

1. Great analogy, marmar!

K&R

[Wordkisser]

2. Hillary wavering

I just read this interesting article in the OC Register in california. the OC is definitely a conservative leaning paper, but this article seems to be speaking to us. Check it out, i'd sure like to know if it's me or does the writer seem to be a Hillary fan.

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/opinion/localstatecolumns/article_1563085.php


Here is a bit from it:

"Sen. Clinton is pretending to be something she is not, that is, warm, open and affable. She is ill-equipped to pull off such a charade, as Dr. Lofton suggests, and she risks losing credibility among her base, arguably the only voters paying attention to her campaign this early in the election cycle, because of it.

Clinton voters know her and accept her, not because she can tell a joke well, but because of her position on issues like health care, Social Security and the war. They expect her to remain steadfast in her convictions, and they need her to lead, not "soften."