Senate's debate is mostly talk, little action

One statistic I'll cite often on this blog is that transportation in the U.S. is thought to be responsible for about one-third of the nation's carbon dioxide emissions. That makes transportation (cars, trucks, trains, planes, ships, etc.) the leading contributor to global warming.

In that vein, it's reassuring to know that much of the debate in the Senate over a pending climate change bill has involved arguments over who gets to talk and for how long, reports The New York Times.

It was just a couple of weeks ago that the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a report that found that global warming could cause both the Joshua tree and the Sagauro cactus to disappear as desert ecosystems change.

By the way, both the Joshua tree and Saguaro cactus have national parks named after them.

--Steve Hymon

Comments

[Terry Black]

At least they're taking about it! Silence is fatal.

For more on climate change, I recommend the website realclimate.org, written by the people who do this for a living. You can't learn too much.

[Jack R.]

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