Profiles in courage on Global Warming?
Once again, political deals in Trenton on the global warming front are being missed by media coverage.
For the inquiring reader and intrepid journalists out there, here is a different perspective on the story, with the critical facts and policy context that are so lacking in the news coverage.
I write particularly for those who – like me – agree with the scientists that global warming is real and that significant actions need to be taken to reduce emissions of green house gases now, before it is too late and a critical threshold is reached and irreversible impacts are triggered.
Yesterday, the Assembly Environment Committee released the Corzine Administration’s first step to implement the aggressive goals of the Global Warming Response Act he signed in July. Those goals call for a 20% reduction in emissions by the year 2020, and a steeper 80% reduction by 2050. The goals have been praised, but the law criticized as lacking any funding or programs to achieve the goals – see: Star-Ledger Op-Ed: “No Teeth in ‘tough. pollution law”.