What are we going to say about Climate Change in a couple of decades? (Rochester Examiner)

February 16, 2012

By Frank Regan

We are at an incredible time in our history where it is impolitic to talk about the most important issue of our century.  Even when our representatives bring out bills to upgrade our water infrastructure and increase the effectiveness of our emergency response systems, they do not mention Climate Change.  This is absurd because both these issues are a part any NYS climate action plan, which attempt to ready our state for extreme weather events coming up.

Rampant are public discussions about our future and plans to meet that future by both political parties in this country and little talk about a process where our atmosphere is warming up.  It’s like planning a wedding for your daughter, when you don’t even have one.

Only a few of our leaders are will to stand up and speak to the American people about the matter at hand:

“‘Global warming is real and to a very significant degree global warming is man made,’ Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday at the outset of a special, one-hour Senate floor session. He was joined by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, Tom Udall and Al Franken in the effort to draw greater public awareness to the problem and to the international scientific consensus on what is causing the climate to change. They also discussed the potential for creating well-paying jobs in the process of transforming our energy system to rely on renewable and sustainable sources of energy, such as wind and solar power.”

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