With climate endorsement, Bloomberg draws a line in the Sandy

With climate endorsement, Bloomberg draws a line in the Sandy | Grist

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With climate endorsement, Bloomberg draws a line in the Sandy

That’s what Sandy told America this week. And that’s what New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told us, more decorously, with his high-profile eleventh-hour endorsement of President Obama. It has long looked like the 2012 election season would go down in history as the Election That Didn’t Talk About The Climate. This week, the planet stepped in and said, in no uncertain terms, that attention must be paid. Climate change isn’t a graph or a number; it’s a storm and a flood. It’s not in Greenland or Vanuatu; it’s in New York and New Jersey. Neither candidate has exactly been itching to address this subject. Obama has been mostly climate-mum since 2009. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney has walked back from his carbon-cutting Massachusetts policies and embraced the current GOP orthodoxy, which is to mock anyone — including the president — who suggests taking the issue of the planet’s warmin...

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@traceydurning » 03 Nov '12, 10pm
"One sees climate change as an urgent problem that threatens our planet; one does not." Feel the same way. THE issue. [link]
@Rainer_Klute » 03 Nov '12, 2pm
"Climate change isn’t a graph or a number; it’s a storm and a flood." [link] #Klimakollaps
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Go get them…. [link]
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'Sandy should be enough to compel all elected leaders to take immediate action' Bloomberg on climate change [link]
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@alisdaniela » 02 Nov '12, 7am
Climate change not a graph or number; it’s a storm & flood. Is not in Greenland or Vanuatu; it’s in NY & NJersey [link]
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"I want our president 2 place scientific evidenc & risk mgmt above politics." @MikeBloomberg endorses @barackobama [link]
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Bloomburg endorsesObama: I want our president to place scientific evidence and risk management above electoral politics [link]
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The planet steps into the debate: @scottros: Why Bloomberg's endorsement matters in the climate fight: @grist [link]
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