Wednesday, January 2, 2013

After Hurricane Sandy, Climate Change Is Back on the Political Agenda

InsideClimate News: This was the year climate change vanished from the political agenda--and then suddenly reappeared, after Hurricane Sandy shook the country. It was just a few years ago that President Obama flew to Copenhagen to rescue faltering climate-treaty talks amid bipartisan calls for global warming action. But in 2012, there wasn't a single congressional proposal or hearing on climate legislation. Neither was there mention of climate change on the presidential campaign trail, or in the debates for the first...

URL: http://highbrowmagazine.com/1908-after-hurricane-sandy-climate-change-back-political-agenda

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