Hurricane Sandy blows climate change back onto the presidential campaign

Christian Science Monitor: Until last week, climate change was pretty much a dormant issue in the presidential campaign. Except for environmental activists, hardly anybody was talking about it – certainly neither of the candidates in any sustained or substantial way. "Obama has been mostly climate-mum since 2009," observed Scott Rosenberg, executive editor of Grist, the environmental news and commentary web site. "Meanwhile, Mitt Romney has walked back from his carbon-cutting Massachusetts policies and embraced the current...

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