Clockwise, from left: Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich.
Question: Who is the best of the four remaining Republican candidates?
Answer: There is no best of these four professional politicians.
None of them has proposed remedial action for, or even shown they know a problem exists with, the most serious problem we and the rest of the world faces, namely the mounting ferocity of weather disasters, caused primarily by global warming. Every one of them, to the extent that they have programs for the future at all, is on a track that will make the problem worse instead of ameliorating it.
Question: Did President Obama speak to these dangerously worsening weather problems in his State of the Union address?
Answer: No, but his options are still open. I do devoutly hope he will, once the election gets close.. He is the only remaining hope we have. If he doesn’t see the danger we are in, and propose measures to minimize it, then we have no hope for at least the next four years, and by four years from now it is very likely to be too late.
Stefan Jones says:
If things go seriously bad with the climate partway through a Republican administration, I’m sure they’ll address the problem swiftly . . . by blaming atheists, gay marriage, sharia law and . . . I dunno, whatever third-world country has just discovered oil and needs a regime change, stat.
Rich towns will get subsidies for dikes to deal with flooding. Poor ones will be offered pontoons, so that their mobile homes can float out to sea, where they’ll be able to link up with off-shore libertarian island utopias that need coolies and servants.
January 30, 2012, 11:35 amHarhar says:
Obama has only made things worse. He has no plan and know idea what to do and simply bumbles around.
January 30, 2012, 1:58 pmRobert Nowall says:
“…the most serious problem we and the rest of the world faces, namely the mounting ferocity of weather disasters, caused primarily by global warming.”
You’re putting us on, right?
January 30, 2012, 4:50 pmGerry M. Allen says:
This set of climate problems is so serious due to the scope of the disasters that await us, and the spectrum of misery they will inflict on our fellow creatures and ourselves. The debate is not a scientific one but a religico-political position. Obama and his advisers at least acknowledge the problems, while the public statements of the candidate seekers do not.
February 1, 2012, 12:06 pm