Bad Politics Drives Out Good Science

The pressure on national governments to formulate climate change policies and enact stringent environmental legislation is on the rise. With extreme weather events increasing in frequency and ferocity worldwide, nothing much is left for the political class to skirt around the issue. 

However, the political reaction to climate change seems to have missed out on a critical aspect – to build public consensus so as to gain a wider acceptance among people who vote and participate in the change process. Read the full post at EditorSpeak@ThinktoSustain.com.

Why Climate Change Eludes Action?

The impact of climate change is fast becoming prominent across the world. Our review of recent research works on climate change and developing events worldwide suggests a few points.

First, it is more than obvious that what we know of climate change, as of today, is just the tip of the iceberg. 

As more research findings from different parts of the world focusing on different aspects of climate change impacts come to fore, the more baffling and alarming it is to assimilate the depth and complexity to which our natural systems are interlinked – those that we are now putting under strain. Read the full post in Editor Speak@ThinktoSustain.com

Superstorm Sandy and the US Elections: The Social Cost of Political Ignorance?

Hurricane Sandy may have been an untimely event during the course of election campaigning, but it puts the spotlight back on climate change despite collaborative attempts by the presidential candidates to clearly steer off from any debate on it.

The rigorous campaigning by US President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney is about to end in a few hours time. The intensive debates between the Presidential candidates in past few weeks might have ruffled apprehensions on contentious security issues, clarified positions at-length on foreign affairs, and proposed future course of action on creating jobs, but what they collaboratively steered off from speaking on, was climate change.

Read the full post in Expert Speak @ ThinktoSustain.com