Leaders from three steadfastly right-wing arenas – church, military and industry – are now calling for limits on US emissions. Jim Giles surveys America’s green stampede.
When politicians start to run out of analogies, you know a subject must be hot. And in Washington right now, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Al Gore has for months been using the ‘sick child’ story to explain the scientific consensus on global warming: if nine out of ten doctors say your kid needs antibiotics, you don’t choose to go with the single dissenter. Which means: listen to the consensus report on the causes and effects of climate change, ignore the skeptics.
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