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Obama Can Say “Climate” After All
New polling data suggest that speaking out about climate change can finally be a political winner, in part because the hellish summer of 2012 has led more Americans to think that climate change is real after all, I write in this analysis of President Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. A new report, Climate Solutions For A Stronger America, explains how to do it. See http://www.thenation.com/node/169814.
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In case you have not seen it, Scientific American asked Obama and Romney to comment on 14 science-related questions, including climate. Romney seemed to acknowledge that climate is changing due to GHG (he probably figured it was safe to assume that tea partiers don’t read Scientific American or just doesn’t care about contradicting himself anymore) but then weaseled his way out of proposing to actually do anything about it. See:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=obama-romney-science-debate
and this commentary deconstructing Romney’s response:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/09/10/mitt-romney-gets-climate-change-wait-just-kidding/?WT_mc_id=SA_CAT_ENGYSUS_20120913
Thanks, Artie, I did see the Sci Am piece. I don’t put much importance into what Romney says there–he appears to be trying to speak to the political middle in this venue by saying that climate change may be happening after all, but what really matters is what he says to the big political audiences on the campaign trail, and there he continues to mock Obama for caring about climate change.