Give me a break.
Via Washington Examiner:
Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley on Wednesday attributed the prolonged power outages that left hundreds of thousands of Marylanders in the dark to global warming, saying the state’s electricity grid could not handle stronger storms caused by climate change.
“A grid that was resilient for the weather of [the past] is not resilient enough to withstand violent storms that climate change and global warming in our atmosphere are causing today,” O’Malley said during a Board of Public Works meeting, at which he called for an enhanced power grid but praised the state’s emergency response.
The Maryland governor — and possible Democratic presidential contender — has built much of his political brand on green energy efforts and tighter environmental standards in the liberal-leaning state. O’Malley this year called for wind farms off the Maryland coast and successfully pushed through a higher “flush” tax to help Chesapeake Bay cleanup efforts.
Yet, some analysts said O’Malley should refrain from grouping global warming into the debate about improving electricity performance.