Obama's alleged global warming challenge
Most historians liken the situation facing Obama to that which confronted Roosevelt _ but the comparison does not seem to do justice to the colossal challenges Obama is facing.A New Leaderboard at the U.S. Open « Climate Audit
Roosevelt was already an established politician when he came into office at the depths of the Great Depression in a society with no safety net for the suffering. And the economy was much worse then than it is now. But he did not have two wars on his plate, nor a political scandal swirling nearby. And Roosevelt did not have a planet suffering from global warming and watching its natural resources dwindle.
Four of the top 10 [warmest years] are now from the 1930s: 1934, 1931, 1938 and 1939, while only 3 of the top 10 are from the last 10 years (1998, 2006, 1999).
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