I suppose we can get some idea of Obama’s actual climate policy by listening to his advisor Jason Grumet
David Roberts: At the recent Wall Street Journal green-business conference, you said that climate change is a “species-threatening crisis.” Explain the distance between “species-threatening crisis” and the debate that’s taking place today.
Jason Grumet: Sen. Obama’s running to be president of a democracy. While he understands this to be one of the greatest challenges of our generation, both domestically and globally, he recognizes that many people in the Congress and in the country are trying to come to terms with their own views on the challenge. So the question is, how do you move a democratic process? The underlying premise of Sen. Obama’s approach to climate change is the recognition that there is a tremendous urgency to act, and to do so we have to find a voice and a set of policies that can be embraced not just by 51 percent of the Congress or even 61 percent of the Congress — a platform that speaks to the severity of the problem as well as the real anxieties that have made it so difficult to act until now.
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