According to The Washington Post, Shaun Donovan gave his first speech as White House budget director Friday.  The story says that he didn’t even mention that popular national obsession of recent years, the now $17.8 trillion national debt.

“No, in the run-up to next week’s United Nations climate summit in New York, the Obama administration is focused like a laser on a different threat to federal finances and the U.S. economy: the consequences of global warming,” according to writer Lori Montgomery of the Post.

“From where I sit, climate action is a must do; climate inaction is a can’t do; and climate denial scores – and I don’t mean scoring points on the board. I mean that it scores in the budget. Climate denial will cost us billions of dollars,” Donovan said during the address.  >Read the Full Story via http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/19/forget-the-national-debt-the-new-budget-threat-is-climate-change/