Chris Mooney: Will the State of the Union Address the State of the Planet?

[bdemelle]

Chris Mooney writes on DeSmogBlog:

It’s freezing out in the northeast—and to hear some pundits and strategists tell it, global warming may be largely frozen out of President Obama’s pending State of the Union address.

In other words, if waiting for the president to say "climate change" is your drinking game strategy for tomorrow night, you may wind up painfully sober by the end of the speech.

As Joe Romm notes, even those pre-speech analysts who do intimately understand the climate issue (and most do not) want the president to talk about energy innovation, not how much of a risk we’re running from ongoing warming. And at a time when the unswerving focus is the economy and jobs, and the president has just named the CEO of a clean energy company, General Electric, to head his new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, you have to figure they're on to something.


Read more at:
<http://www.desmogblog.com/will-state-union-address-state-planet>

[villager]

1. Of course not. Acknowledging the true state of the biosphere would be "off-message"

Better rampant extinction than to gum up potential re-election chances, eh?

[Lorien]

2. Not to mention corporate plundering and profit$$$$.nt

[GliderGuider]

3. Who the heck does he think pays for the President?

Not a chance this will get mentioned. The guardians of industrial civilization will be watching.