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

Hillary Clinton took questions at her two NH town halls this weekend and she did not have to ‘arrange’ a climate change question.  Straight from the North Pole, Santa flew down in his carbon neutral sled to ask Clinton about a new green economy.

Clinton spoke about including poorer nations in the global climate change response:

“I will say to the leaders of the most significant greenhouse gas emitting nations which includes the European Union, the United States, Canada, Mexico, China, India, South Africa, and Brazil that we have to meet every three months until we hammer this out hopefully within a year.   We don’t have any time to waste any longer.  The urgency of this is so intense that we have lost a lot of time.   We do have to reach out and include the fast developing countries, but not in a way that makes it seem like – ‘okay we got rich on the fossil fuel economy, but we don’t want you to follow our model.’   We need to be saying- ‘let’s work together, let’s experiment together.’  Let’s see this as a way of bringing the world together instead of being set one against another.   There are contributions to be made from every part of the globe to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions.“

The candidates have recently been talking a lot about international climate agreements because of the Bali Summit which concluded on a more positive tone this weekend.