Drudge carried this report that was originally carried by Fox news about Republican senators who are questioning the science behind climate change. more questioning of this is making me crazy.

But also, it brings to mind something that I’d like to question here. Maybe I am limited by the narrowness of my scope, but my narrowness doesn’t make my point moot.

I’m wondering what do we have to gain from arguing the science of climate change? As China is innovating in a truly sustainable way, we are questioning the science of climate change? Given that growth and development will happen, let’s guide that development in an environmentally sustainable way.  On the other side of this, what do we have to lose if we continue to ignore this threat? By balancing out potential losses with our potential gains, it seems very clear to me that we must act now.

Paul Krugman at the NYTmes wrote about the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill, and this being indicative of a change that’s (maybe) starting to happen in the United States.

The House passes climate-change bill is huge news to me.

Politico carried this on their article covering the story: “It has been an incredible six months, to go from a point where no one believed we could pass this legislation to a point now where we can begin to say that we are going to send president Obama to Copenhagen in December as the leader of the of the world on climate change,” said Markey, referring to world climate talks scheduled this winter.”

This doesn’t have anything directly to do with China, but indirectly it means global sentiments are changing. This is something that needed to happen though, for sure.