Obama's Climate 'Dream Team' Named as Top Event in 2008 to Avert Catastrophic Warming. By Joseph Romm, Grist, January 4, 2009. "What events, actions, and findings had the most positive or negative impact on the likelihood that the nation and the world will act in time to avoid catastrophic warming? Since the No. 1 story is way too obvious to generate any drama, I will start there... 1) Team without rivals. A year ago, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, desperately warned, 'If there's no action before 2012, that's too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment.' That means the next president and his cabinet, more than any other group, will determine my future and your future and our children's future, and perhaps the future of the next 50 generations to walk the earth. Fortunately, the American people rejected the old greenwasher and new denier nominated by the Drill, baby, Drill crowd -- and now we will be led by the greenest, most scientifically informed, radical pragmatists in the history of the Republic..."
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