Most people probably believe that the age of exploration — at least on this planet — ended long ago. It’s tempting to assume that with today’s advanced technology, every corner of the earth has been mapped, scanned, and scoured for every…

USA Today’s website has a “Candidate Match Game” which allows you to determine which presidential candidate most shares your views via a neat interactive tool.

There are twelve “statements,” in four separate categories, and for each you can use a slide…

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,…

Here’s how the Red State Update boys see global warming.

The U.S. Senate Monday is scheduled to begin debating a bill to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Known as the Climate Security Act, it is a serious response to global warming that is long overdue.
The Senate debate comes on the…

Caught between a federal judge’s order and a mountain of accumulating scientific evidence, the Bush administration reluctantly listed polar bears as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. But the administration pointedly refuses to address the threat that imperils the bears and…

President George W. Bush clings to his belief in free markets the way a drowning man clings to a potential rescuer.

Most of the time, that’s good — or at least it’s not bad. Markets are the best way to…

Polar bears are threatened by global warming, which is melting the ice pack on which they hunt and live. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey predict that two-thirds of the world’s polar bears could be extinct by 2050. In January 2007, The…