Posts Tagged ‘politicians’

Reconciling the Planet's Needs with Humanity's

April 6, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in global warming | 3 comments

Andrew Sullivan is convinced that global warming is real, but he also belongs to the reality-based community, so he poses this dilemma: Should we bear the heavy economic and social costs of trying to mitigate it in the teeth of a global depression? Or should we find creative ways to adjust to and live with…Continue Reading…

Reading the Senate's Storm Clouds

April 2, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in cap and and trade, climate change | 1 comment

You don’t need a weatherman to see which way the wind is blowing in the Senate on cap-and-trade legislation. Yesterday, after several revealing votes showed just how tough it will be to pass a meaningful climate change bill in Congress,  Olympia Snowe, the Republican moderate from Maine, said this to Politico: It’s a complicated issue…Continue Reading…