Joe Romm is highlighting this extraordinary assertion from Robert Brulle, a prominent academic who writes often about environmental affairs:
By failing to even rhetorically address climate change, Obama is mortgaging our future and further delaying the necessary work to build a political consensus for real action.
This broadside follows on the heels of the State of the Union address, in which President Obama pointedly did not mention climate change or global warming. Silly me, I thought climate hawks would be too down with the blues to cast recriminations--for at least a day or two, anyway. But Brulle's charge is easily matched by David Roberts at Grist, who also bemoans what wasn't said in the President's speech:
This is a failure on Obama's part. A moral failure, a failure of leadership, but also, I would argue, a political failure.
In stark contrast, Roger Pielke Jr. has a different take:
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