OBAMA 2.O / ENVIRONMENT
presidential debates went by with
nary a mention of climate change.
For environmentalists, and many
ordinary Americans, it was a troubling milestone, particularly as a
gargantuan super-storm — and one
of the sort that virtually all climate
scientists have been warning for
years would increase in frequency
as the planet warmed — bore down
on the East Coast and, in the end,
caused unprecedented destruction.
“Hurricane Sandy,” wrote
Daniel Honan at BigThink.com,
“Mother Nature’s revenge on the
2012 election?”
Obama was specifically targeted
for his silence, which seemed to
take hold during his first term
around the time that support
for broad climate change legislation — a top-tier campaign goal of
candidate Obama in 2008 — was
foundering. Green groups were
angered by the president’s decision to recede into t H