Let the EPA Do Its Job

Wouldn’t it be an intriguing turn of events if the rest of the world got sick and tired of U.S. inaction on climate change and initiated sanctions against us? While the US government and its citizenry deny the reality of climate change, the rest of the world is living with it. 2010 is officially the hottest year on record thus far. On the US east coast, it’s been depressing to see the curling, drooped leaves in forests enduring weeks of 98 degree heat without rain. But that pales in comparison to China’s torrential rains and the heaviest monsoons on record in Pakistan, where millions of people have been displaced and over a thousand are dead. Russia, the UK, Israel and Thailand are suffering through searing drought, the worst on record or close to that. Arctic sea ice has melted to its thinnest state yet, not to mention the recent calving of the largest ice sheet in Greenland since 1962. All these "worst ever" events – including the intense snow we saw last winter – are exactly what climate scientists have long predicted as hallmarks of climate change. Yet, even with the tailwind of the catastrophic BP oil spill, our Congress […]

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