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While Americans were fixated on relentless coverage of the Michael Jackson memorial last week, President Barack Obama was shoring up the country’s international stature as he toured in connection with the Group of Eight Summit in Italy.
Global summitry is…
Remember all that talk about how global warming was going to change our lives? It already has.
A new federal report on the impact of climate change condenses the latest science from a variety of disciplines. Among the findings:
• Heavy downpours are…
Twenty years ago this week, a then-unknown NASA scientist named James E. Hansen ushered global warming from the realm of climatology into the hot house of public policy.
He did it in testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, delivered…
