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Though they have played out on a fairly small stage, with relatively little national notice, the
struggles over climate policy in Washington presage larger national battles.
Be that as it may, Obama and his campaign would be unlikely to be so undisciplined as to get into a national high - profile
fight over climate policy if he were going to lose credibility with a public more hungry for jobs than fixing global warming.
The challenge in prompting change — broadening the classic definition of «infrastructure,» and investing in initiatives aimed at adapting to a turbulent planet — is heightened by partisan
divisions over climate policy and development.
[8:00 p.m. Updated There's more from me on the climate talks and congressional tussles
over climate policy in an interview I did earlier today with Barbara Bernstein of KBOO radio in Corvallis, Ore..]
In particular, Obama's other high level picks suggest there may be serious impending battles in the White
House over climate policy.
Adam Corner, commenting that Al Gore's An Inconvenient Sequel could make
rifts over climate policy worse, makes an excellent point:...
The Southern Company is not only polluting the environment with carbon and other dangerous emissions — it's also polluting the debate
over climate policy by funding bad science.
We'll be
arguing over climate policy for a long time to come — but more and more, in my opinion, it will be about policy, and not about the existence of the problem.
They can feel free to get into the policy debate, as well, but there it's vital (to my mind as a 25 - year observer of
fights over climate policy) to distinguish when one's wearing the scientist hat and the citizen hat (as parent, homeowner, taxpayer).
TransCanada pledged to seek another permit for its Keystone XL pipeline after the Obama administration rejected the project, ending a seven - year review that had become a flash point in the
debate over his climate policies.
The challenge in prompting change — broadening the classic definition of «infrastructure,» and investing in initiatives aimed at adapting to a turbulent planet — is heightened by partisan
divisions over climate policy and development.
10:11 a.m. Updated For much more on the behavioral factors that shape the human
struggle over climate policy, I encourage you to explore «Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life,» a new book by Kari Marie Norgaard, a sociologist who has just moved from Whitman College to the University of Oregon.
This is correct that Obama's other high level picks suggest there may be serious impending battles in the White
House over climate policy.
The challenge here, of course, is that the fight over climate science, to my mind, is a spillover from the more heated, and deeper, debate
over climate policy.
Mike Hulme, a climate scientist at the University of East Anglia in England and the author of a book on the struggle
over climate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those problems.
I allude to an article of mine from 2006, «Yelling Fire on a Hot Planet,» focused on the tendency toward overstatement at both edges of the fight
over climate policy.
As far as the science goes, there is little in the U.S. Global Change Research Program report to advance the case of any side in the debate
over climate policy.
Instead they call for conservatives to begin to constructively engage in the debate
over climate policy: [more]
Instead they call for conservatives to begin to constructively engage in the debate
over climate policy: