Climate change should not be a political issue except for the fossil fuel industry money playing a corrosive role in American politics.
After all, according to many, it was non other than Margaret Thatcher (not a liberal except outside the US where the word changes meaning to the opposite) who started speaking about climate change back in 1988;
The central subject of Thatcher’s 20-minute speech to the Royal Society was the environment, in particular the greenhouse effect and climatic change. Whilst praising the enterprise of UK science, Thatcher warned of “a global heat trap which could lead to climatic instability” and raised the possibility that “we have unwittingly begun a massive experiment with the system of this planet itself”.
By drawing out “the wider implications for policy” of these scientific insights, Mrs Thatcher was deliberately claiming that climate change and its human dimensions was a matter for political attention. She was the first senior world leader to turn human interference with the climate system into a major national and international policy issue.