Climate science drives us apart, alternative energy brings us together

I find it slightly annoying that Charlotteans both want their city to be a green-energy hub but, at the same time, will ramble on about how climate change is a myth. Apparently, however, this isn’t a Charlotte-only problem.
Check out this snippet from a post by Forbes magazine’s Michael Shellenberger. It’s an excellent history of how we got to where we are today. Read it!
It may be hard to remember now but it wasn’t that long ago that much of the American political establishment came to believe that the science of climate would transcend ideological and national boundaries and result in common national and global action. The idea was that climate scientists would tell us what the safe level of atmospheric emissions was, and that nations would take shared steps to reducing their emissions over the next 50 years.
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/theclog/2011/01/12/climate-science-drives-us-apart-alternative-energy-brings-us-together/