As I mentioned in the morning open thread, the big news yesterday should have been the meeting between Obama and Al Gore. For eight years, we've lived under the Bush regime, which for years has denied the existence of global warming. That crowd mocked Al Gore. Now, we have a president who agrees with Gore. That, in the long run, really was the most important political news yesterday:
President-elect Barack Obama met with former vice president Al Gore in Chicago on Tuesday to discuss climate change, declaring after the meeting, "The time for denial is over."I think sometimes it's easy to forget just how much the world is going to change when we get our new president.
The meeting, also attended by Vice President-elect Joe Biden, came as Obama prepares to nominate his administration's top environmental officials -- decisions that could come as soon as this week.
"All three of us are in agreement that the time for delay is over," Obama told reporters as he sat between Gore and Biden at the transition headquarters after the meeting.
"We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for years now," Obama said, "that this is a matter of urgency and national security, and it has to be dealt with in a serious way. That is what I intend my administration to do."
