Gore, Bono speak in Davos

It's a major disappointment that the global climate crisis has been largely absent as a topic on the Presidential campaign trail.

Every scientific study to come out recently--in the last several months since the IPCC agreed that man-made global warming is a reality and even the Bush administration agreed we need to address it-- shows the trajectory is much worse than previously thought.

Every viable scenario for addressing the global climate crisis involves slowing down (or reversing) the use of coal. West Virginia should start planning now for a post-carbon economy--not later when the transition will be even more painful. As a state we ought to be aggressively pursuing alternative carbon-free energy solutions instead of the false promise of carbon sequestration and "clean coal."

Lets act now while we have a chance to be move to the top of a ranking as experts, producers, and consumers of green energy.