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Joe Romm is one of the leaders of the leaders on addressing climate change. He ends the year with
a post from which I will simply quote the beginning. The rest is up to you.
This year has seen a great many important climate stories. Obviously, the continued self-destructive failure of the nation and the world to reverse greenhouse gas emission trends always deserve to be the top story in some sense:
The emergence of a genuine grassroots movement following Obama’s fecklessness on the environment is a major U.S. story (see “A Climate Movement Is Born: Ozone Decision Spikes Total Arrests to 1,252 at White House Pipeline Protest“).
And the energy story with the biggest climate implication was clearly Fukushima:
But the climate story that affects the most people around the world today by far is well described in this post — Oxfam: Extreme Weather Has Helped Push Tens of Millions into “Hunger and Poverty” in “Grim Foretaste” of Warmed World.
The politicians will face up to this only if we force them to face up to it. And as problematic as the Democrats have been on the issue, the Republicans won't face up to it at all. It's up to us to stop the Republicans and to force this to the top of the Democrats' agenda.