Getting a Word in
February 20th, 2007 by Carbon CoalitionClinton, Kucinich, Richardson, and even Mrs. McCain campaigned throughout the Granite State this weekend. Global warming took a backseat to many other issues, but some of the candidates managed to squeeze in a mention. In Sen. Clinton’s opening remarks to a large crowd in Dover, she talked about climate change as being a ”dire challenge,” but the focus of her “continued conversation” remained on the war in Iraq. At the RiverRun bookstore in Portsmouth Sen. Richardson said “The first thing I’d do in office would be to re-sign the Kyoto Treaty.” To Richardson we ask, “why go back in time?” Richardson also sported a bright red ”Stop Global Warming” sticker, which can be seen in the picture here. Hmm, I wonder where he got that from?
In other news…finding the good in a situation could be taken to a whole new level. As the Arctic warms–it’s warming faster than anyplace on earth–it opens up access to what the US Geological Survey estimates to be a quarter of the world’s remaining oil and gas reserves. Daniel Lashof a climate change analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council says it would be a “great irony that global warming could, by causing the Arctic to be ice-free during the summer, increase access to the very fossil fuels that are driving global warming.” While the irony is not lost, it certainly isn’t stopping anyone yet. Polar nations, such as the United States, Canada, Russia, and Norway, are all in a scramble to lay claim to the land under the ice. (Read the entire article from the Boston Globe here.)
