So...there is talk that Lieberman-Warner will be coming up again soon in the Senate, which kinda baffles me. There are a whole host of reasons why it would be far better to have a climate change bill pass Congress in 2009, rather than during this election year. In my latest Daily Green column, I rattle off a few of them:
The politics of this issue are changing rapidly and dramatically, expanding the sphere of what's possible - and you can bet that by 2009, an even stronger bill will be able to pass. Between now and then, after all, we are probably going to just get worse and worse news from the climate system, and the sense of alarm and the need for action will only increase. Meanwhile, we currently have a president who is intransigent on climate change; but in 2009, in all likelihood, we will have a president ...
