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Promise from the Hill

-- Adam -- 02/08/2007

John Donnelly, in an article today for the Boston Globe, suggests that the recnt attention to climate change in Washington is just the beginning. The 2007 IPCC report contributed further to increasing politicians' interest in the topic and how it might affect their constituents. Growing public knowledge of the warming threat have no doubt given new energy to the current hearings on Capitol Hill, of which Donnelly argues we will see a good bit more of in the coming year. The new Senate Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection will provide a forum for policymakers, including several presidential contenders, to learn and have focused debates about not just global warming but a whole series of impacts and solutions. It should be interesting to see where we'll be once the primaries begin and how candidates channel the inertia of the issue.