If the severe storms touching down in Washington DC last week reflected public anger as Republicans stalled debate on the Climate Bill by reading all 500 pages aloud, then this week's heat wave there projects the future of global warming without significant climate legislation in the US. The death of the Bill mirrors the dysfunctional state of politics in the US, which is a climate outlier for not ratifying the Kyoto Protocol. However, environmentalists find a silver lining in the storm clouds: an opportunity to achieve better legislation than the milquetoast Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act.
1Sky, a consortium of over 60 environmentalist, social justice, business, and civil society organizations promoting federal policy that advances sustainability, encapsulates this measured optimism. 1Sky supports legislation aligned with scientific consensus on the measures needed to address the climate crisis. Lieberman-Warner fell far short on this count, and "would have given more money to the bloated fossil fuel industry," according to 1Sky Board President Betsy Taylor.
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