Climate Politics Are Worse Than Obamacare's -- NYMag

Why The GOP Can't Wait To Have This Political Battle
WASHINGTON - JULY 30: U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (R) speaks as Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) (L) looks on during a news conference on the debt ceiling negotiation July 30, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. McConnell told the press at the news conference that he had talked to President Barack Obama and he's confident that an agreement can be reached very soon. The House rejected U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid's (D-NV) proposed debt ceiling bill one day after the Senate rejected Boehner's plan. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON - JULY 30: U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (R) speaks as Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) (L) looks on during a news conference on the debt ceiling negotiation July 30, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. McConnell told the press at the news conference that he had talked to President Barack Obama and he's confident that an agreement can be reached very soon. The House rejected U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid's (D-NV) proposed debt ceiling bill one day after the Senate rejected Boehner's plan. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

On May 6, a team of more than 300 climate scientists and experts released the third U.S. National Climate Assessment, which reported, “Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present.” The Obama administration had intended the Climate Assessment to underscore the urgency of new regulations to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, which it will unveil next month.

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