Obama and McCain: No Climate Doubt

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While there are substantial differences between the climate and energy planks of the presidential candidates, it’s clear that Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain agree on something that a persistent cluster of comment contributors here (and about 20 percent of the country) rejects:

While there are substantial differences between the climate and energy planks of the presidential candidates, it’s clear that Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain agree on something that a persistent cluster of comment contributors here (and about 20 percent of the country) rejects:

That the threat posed by the buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activities is sufficient to justify a concerted, sustained effort to curb, and eventually deeply cut, such emissions.

The candidates’ platforms on climate and energy make this clear, but they renewed their stances in written responses to the folks who proposed having the first presidential debate on science. The debate isn’t happening — the way politics works probably guaranteed that outcome — but much credit goes to the organizers for at least getting answers from their campaign staffs to 14 questions on science and technology policy, winnowed from more than 3,400 questions submitted by scientists and concerned citizens.