Mother Jones laments about Samantha Power, Obama's UN ambassador-in-waiting: "there's very little evidence that climate change has motivated Samantha Power's career or featured in her public comments"

Samantha Power's Climate Silence | Mother Jones

Samantha Power, Obama's UN ambassador-in-waiting, frowned modestly as the president heaped lofty praise on her this week when he announced a major national security reshuffle.
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But will Samantha Power's brand of leadership extend to advocating climate action from her powerful position at the UN? After all, climate change is a top priority in the UN: While development has been grinding, members at the Doha climate conference last December reaffirmed a previous decision to reach a global pact to replace Kyoto by 2015; secretary general Ban Ki-moon himself has listed climate change at the very top of his 2013 "to do" list (up there with stopping the bloodshed in Syria). By contrast, there's very little evidence that climate change has motivated Samantha Power's career or featured in her public comments, leaving foreign policy experts confused as to how she might rise to the challenge. The people in the know... don't know...experts have suggested looking at her husband, Cass Sunstein, who has written a lot about climate change and America's need to act, and Secretary of State John Kerry, for whom climate change is a major priority, and who will no doubt help set a lot of Power's agenda through the State Department.
But these little hints are few and far between. In the end, Power's appointment seems to put other concerns above climate, says Busby.