Welcome to the dog days of autumn. Watch for progressives to offer milk bones, kibbles and bits to coax their more conservative colleagues into commitments that conscience alone should be sufficient to dictate.
The challenge for leaders in the Senate, as it was in the House, will be to prevent the climate bill from being negotiated into something far less than required to reinvent the American economy and reverse our greenhouse gas emissions, and to do both quickly.
Whether Senate leaders succeed in producing public policy that averts climate disaster will depend in large part on how they frame the debate. Continued...
Top Scientists Warn of Catastrophic Sea Level Rise
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- *Flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy, **Photo: BR Birke -- CC 2.0*
Dr. James Hansen, who was the lead climate scientist at NASA, and sixteen
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