A Little Good News for a Change

The Natural Resources Defense Council reports that the U. S. Senate recently passed a resolution recognizing global warming as an enormous problem and declaring that the nation must enact mandatory limits on the pollution that causes it. This bipartisan breakthrough marks a desperately needed shift in national policy, reversing the Senate's 1997 vote against mandatory pollution limits, a decision the White House has since used to justify its refusal to address the issue of climate change. I find this latest action particularly significant in light of Katrina, which revved up to Category 4 by feeding on the unusually warm (90+ degree) water in the Gulf of Mexico.