Thursday, November 8, 2012

Gale-force wind of change shoves climate on to Obama's agenda

New Zealand Herald: It's hard to know how much impact New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's comments about climate change after Hurricane Sandy had on the US election. It's easy to overestimate that sort of thing, but President Barack Obama's victory in several states was so razor-thin that Bloomberg's last-minute intervention may have been decisive. What's clear is Obama didn't want to talk about it during the campaign. Bloomberg, responding to the devastation he saw in New York City, laid it on the line. "Our climate...

URL: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10846063

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