Climate Deniers in Congress

[Douglas Carpenter]

[sulphurdunn]

1. The climate change deniers

don't concern me. They're either cynical stooges or credulous idiots, whether members of congress or my next door neighbors. Nothing will change their minds. I worry more about our President. He speaks truth on this issue, then does little or nothing or supports the continuation of green house technologies, and we point fingers at the climate change deniers for it. I wish the President would beat this issue like a drum. If he honestly wants to alter the deadly course we are on, he must do much more than tell the truth. He has to fight for it.

[RVN VET]

2. Agreed.

Obama's legacy is going to rest on what he does with this issue. When our great-great-grandchildren are living under circumstances harsher than we can imagine:famine, drought, flood, hurricanes, fires -- all preventable, but permitted because of inaction, Boner's will be a forgotten name. Obama's will not. He'll be regarded as a villain by history, or worse, a sad time-server who talked a good game but was too timid to act.

If he is able to put up a fight, to call out the ignorant and callow deniers who are so willing, even eager, to sacrifice the future for the sake of their own personal comfort and power, if he can do that seriously and in a way that leaves no doubt he is doing everything -- everything -- in his power to beat them back and set the Nation and, through his influence, the World on a proper course that would stave off calamity -- he will be remembered as a hero.

He'll be a hero even if he fails. As long as the World knows he tried. But if he fails to try . . . .