Martin O'Malley

Climate change in the Middle East is a security issue for the countries of that region and for the United States. GOP blindness to this problem and insistence on continuing to put 5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year is contributing to a set of disasters for the United States and the world. O’Malley should be praised for saying this forthrightly, though it is a sad commentary on American politics that his statement of fact should be a matter for congratulation, or that it should have been met with derision from the ignorant.