Top climate highlights plus NAS video
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On E2, Reid says he’s serious about energy and is planning to convene a Democratic caucus next month to
“discuss how to proceed on energy and climate change legislation.”
On Grist, David Roberts applauds Thomas Friedman on his New York Times op-ed in which Friedman worries that Obama won’t make a strong push for climate legislation in the wake of the Gulf oil disaster and compares it to George W. Bush’s lack of vision when dealing with the public outcries and aftermath of 9/11. Friedman explains:
“No, the gulf oil spill is not Obama’s Katrina. It’s his 9/11 — and it is disappointing to see him making the same mistake George W. Bush made with his 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of those rare seismic events that create the possibility to energize the country to do something really important and lasting that is too hard to do in normal times. President Bush’s greatest failure was not Iraq, Afghanistan or Katrina. It was his failure of imagination after 9/11 to mobilize the country to get behind a really big initiative for nation-building in America.”
Green focuses on the three new studies released by the National Research Council, part of the National Academy of Sciences, calling for action on climate change.
“The report states that the most efficient way to reduce carbon dioxide pollution is to put a predictable and rising price on it.”
Dot earth also has the story which includes an interesting video which explains the significance of the three reports in the wider climate policy debate.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY94AB6o-D8&feature=player_embedded#!
