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best option to influence Environmental Policy?  Are we throwing
away opportunities to make an impact on environmental issues?
Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images  As a third of the country
gets sucked into the polar vortex, and the word on the street is
that it’s now officially been changed to global cooling instead
of global warming, Joe the Plumber is left wondering what the
heck is going on with the climate. At the same time, Obama’s
climate policy has seemingly melted away, or been frozen in the
past; whichever climate theory is the flavor of the month.  In a
speech on June 25th, 2013, Obama made the following statement,
“Our founders believed...we are elected not just to serve as
custodians of the present but as caretakers of the future. They
charged us to make decisions with an eye on a larger horizon
than the arc of our own political careers."  While to some this
quote may wreak of hypocrisy, especially the part about putting
politics aside