(Cross-posted at Checklist Toward Zero Carbon.)
Iraq, health care, the economy - all important issues.
And all are a diversion from the one true crisis we face. For if we don't solve the global warming crisis all other important issues will cease to be, period.
An article by Joseph Romm, "Obama and Clinton plan to cool it" takes a look at Hillary and Barack and climate change.
Mr. Romm starts strong with a clear-eyed description of what's at stake:
The gravest threat to the American way of life is posed by unrestricted greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Global warming threatens to put the Southwest into a permanent drought, raise sea levels by 6 or more inches a decade, generate hundreds of millions of environmental refugees at home and abroad, wipe out half the planet's species, and increase average temperatures in the nation's interior 10-20 degrees Fahrenheit. And these impacts would likely get steadily worse for hundreds of years or longer.
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