Climate Change Back on Political Radar after Sandy, Election

National Geographic: In his re-election victory speech, President Barack Obama finally touched on a seldom-mentioned issue of the campaign--climate change: "We want our children to live in an America … that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet." Whether or not Hurricane Sandy can be attributed to climate change, the storm's devastating flooding brought the issue to the forefront of the country's consciousness. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg made the issue the centerpiece of his endorsement...

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