US Compromisse is not Enough - 'A Gross Failure of Leadership'

I believe the biggest obstacle to solving global warming is the role of money in politics, the undue sway of special interests.
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But let me tell you: President Obama does not get it. He and his key advisers are subject to heavy pressures, and so far the approach has been "Let's compromise." So you still have a hell of a lot of work ahead of you. You do not have any choice. Your attitude must be "Yes, we can."

I am sorry to say that most of what politicians are doing on the climate front is -greenwashing—their proposals sound good, but they are deceiving you and themselves at the same time. Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot -compromise—they are what they are.
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The problem with goverments is not scientific ability-the Obama administration, for exemple, appointed some of the best scientists ins the country to top positions in science and energy. Instead, the government's problem is politics-politics as usual.

Jim Hansen, Newsweek, 14-Dec-2009. Hansen is a member of the National Acadamy of Sciences, an adjunct professor at Columbia University and Columbia's Earth Institute, and director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.