In his victory speech at the end of the primary season Senator Barack Obama said: "Generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children...this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."
But scientists now report that any planetary healing that began that night has either reversed itself or never began at all. Further they report there is no evidence that the rise of the oceans has changed in any way.
"It's rather disappointing," said Carson Fulbright, head of the World Council of Hopeful Scientists, which began studying the problem right after Obama's announcement. "We were hoping that this would truly be a turning point, and that it would save us a lot of time, money, and sacrifice. But apparently everything is going to hell just the same way as it was before the speech. It will be hard to tell that to my children, years from now, but I will if that's the truth."
The Council will issue another report one month after the Democratic National Convention to see whether Obama's actual nomination or his nominating speech, rather than his primary season victory, starts the healing process and slows the rise.
"With Obama there's always hope," says Fulbright.
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