What is important to our elected representatives? In Michigan global warming ranks #1 to one Senator while it’s not in the top 10 of worries of her constituents.
Michigan just experienced its coldest July on record; global temperatures haven’t risen in more than a decade; Great Lakes water levels have resumed their 30-year cyclical rise (contrary to a decade of media scare stories that they were drying up due to global warming), and polls show that climate change doesn’t even make a list of Michigan voters’ top-ten concerns.Yet in an interview with the Detroit News Monday, Senator Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.) – recently appointed to the Senate Energy Committee – made clear that fighting the climate crisis is her top priority.
Perhaps Senator Stabenow should move to Boulder where she would no doubt be welcomed with open arms. Guess she would have to lose her job first. Crazier things have happened!
