Climate Change In UK,
Then In UP, Then In US?

Almost simultaneously last week, the Parliament of the United Kingdom (UK) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations (UN) published their official statements on global warming. November 15 UK, a bill to be debated by Members of the Parliament. November 17 IPCC, a synthesis report to be acted upon by every Government in the world. Except the US?

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1957, Random House) is ‘about the importance of reason and productivity, and how those characteristics have such a bad press, relative to hope and inadequacy’ (undated, Harold Leiendecker, eckerd.edu). Just like in the Philippines, if the press would have little to do with global warming, which has everything to do with reason and continuing productivity, it’s just like the US.

Scientists telling politicians what must be done – in the case of global warming, I’m glad there’s no separation between Science and State. Kyoto Protocol was the boy who cried ‘Wolf!’ on the blustery day of 1997 December 11; the United States (the US) was the villagers who told the shepherd boy in a delayed telecast 4 years later, ‘Save your frightened song for when there is really something wrong!’ (borrowing from storyarts.org). What does that mean: The US can tell a lie when it sees none?

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