Silver Lining for Environmental Groups in the Wake of the U.S. Midterms

If you’re looking to award a prize to the best environmental group in terms of articulating what they see as a “silver lining” after yesterday’s drubbing in the U.S. midterms, you can’t count out the Union of Concerned Scientists.  They write:

…nothing in the results should change anyone’s mind on these clear truths: we know Americans trust science, support cutting global warming emissions, and want help for communities struggling with the very real consequences of climate change.  

I’d like to believe that’s true.  But even if it’s not, clean energy will soon win the day as its costs continue to plummet and its efficiencies keep improving.   It really won’t matter how dim-witted U.S. voters and their leaders are as soon as the market economics of clean energy prove irresistible.  The good news:  we’re very close to that point.