The Political Climate: an ongoing commentary on the NH Primary and Climate Change

Julie Eilperin at the Washington Post has been doing great work covering climate change and energy issues and had this article over the weekend on differing views of the effect of man-caused global warming and the recent intensity of hurricanes. Of course, there is not much dispute over the actual data, so the debate centers on what data you look at and how it is interpreted.

Eilperin unfortunately chooses to illustrate the political nature of this debate through a fairly extreme comment from Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute and a rebuttal from a Competitive Enterprise Institute policy type. She does, however,  note that CEI receives funding from the oil companies.

Worth the read.