May 12, 2008 1:16 PM

Hard Truth on Global Warming

The first serious material I read on global warming was written by Bill McKibben. And in an article posted this weekend on TomDispatch.com, McKibben brought me up hard on the realities. It is easy to be fool oneself into believing that the Senate just might do the right thing and pass serious global warming legislation. I have sent copies of McKibben's new piece to John Dingell, who chairs the House committee which must pass climate change legislation but has not even taken up limits on CO2, and to John McCain, who seems to be bargaining hard to add significant subsidies for nuclear power to the already weak Senate bill authored by his good friend Joe Lieberman.

To dither at this time reflects an ability to delude one's self that is the hallmark of men who simply are not serious.