PostPartisan - Why we should all mourn Lisa Murkowski

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/09/why_we_should_all_mourn_lisa_m.html

Next year could be very depressing for those concerned about the risks of climate change. What Joe Miller, Sharron Angle and other resolute climate-change skeptics running this year don't seem to appreciate is that, sure, scientists struggling to understand a complex, multivariate system should cultivate a healthy sense of humility. But you need only think that the likelihood that scientists are correct is high enough to warrant concern. And it very clearly is. In fact, many skeptics are the immodest ones in their declarations about reality, given the risks involved; those who favor doing little or nothing betray a dangerous overconfidence, since the consequences if they are wrong could be devastating, and the odds don't appear to be in their favor. I think Lisa Murkowski understood this.