Lincoln liked Herman Melville, too

Elsewhere we can expect spectacular gains, largely on the back of the new writer-president's prodigious ability with words. It does not seem unrealistic to expect that Obama will tame global warming with a sonnet. Hugo Chavez will be won over with a text message. The financial crisis will be brought to heel with a single recited Noel Coward bon mot.

Gregoire proposes emissions cap and trade law

State Ecology Department Director Jay Manning says such a system could help business transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy alternatives.

The Washington Environmental Council says revenue from permit sales would be invested to create green jobs.

Climate change versus alleged global warming

SHELL LAKE – The weather reached a low of 34 below 0 in Washburn County last week, making it difficult for those living in northern Wisconsin to believe in the nationwide colloquialism, global warming.

John Magnuson, professor emeritus for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Limnology, said that though it may be hard, especially in this cold weather, to be a subscriber to global warming, there is definitely a difference in temperature between the current century and those past.