Just to follow up on my last post on how Obama excluded all mention of climate and greenhouse gases from his remarks on Waxman-Markey’s House passage, I read the transcript of the President’s weekly radio address. This time, he did–barely–mention climate change.
Specifically, he touted the subsidies the bill could provide for farmers: “It gives rural communities and farmers the opportunity to participate in climate solutions and generate new income.”
And he said, “There is no longer a debate about whether carbon pollution is placing our planet in jeopardy. It’s happening.” Dubbing the stuff we exhale “carbon pollution” isn’t the clearest way to embody the claims behind greenhouse gas caps. “Carbon pollution” sounds like charcoal dust in the air. If he had said “greenhouse gas emissions,” he might have tipped off that this regulation is about global warming, which, for some reason, the President seems unwilling to do.
