Politics of global warming | theithacajournal.com | The Ithaca Journal
It seems extraordinary that in a time when there is both a constant stream of domestic climatic catastrophes, disturbing signs of increasing global warming and feverish political electoral passion, little attention has been paid to any connection between these phenomena.
The nation, after all, has seen an apparently unending stream of truly devastating floods, ferocious hurricanes, debilitating agricultural droughts, widely destructive forest fires accentuated by dry brush —for several years, and at the same time, many reputable environmental scientists have linked these occurrences to global warming. And directly or indirectly to man-made or man-accentuated global warming at that.
Prominent Republicans, noted for their lack of interest in and support for science generally — such as Senator Inhofe, Governor Palin, and yes, President Bush — have been notoriously lackadaisical in their approach to global warming and apparently unwilling to see its connection to our continuing climatic misfortunes. Or to make significant efforts to counter global warming.
It is thus singularly ironic that the areas most distressed by hurricanes, floods, droughts and the like are largely “red state” areas that have been generally supportive of such nay-sayers to global warming. Could the unfortunate and suffering citizens of those areas not be seen to be the victims of some sort of cruel poetic justice?
Strange also that partisan Democrats have not seized upon this argument, in their election presentations.
Dr. A. N. Feldzamen
Ithaca
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