It's a wonderful world | Jonathan Jones

Yet in a lot of ways, the Earth is more beautiful today than it was a century ago. If you compare our time not with that of Titian, but with that of LS Lowry, it looks like we live in paradise. The forests of smoke stacks that dominated many British cities in the 19th and much of the 20th centuries have gone. The carbon they emitted, unfortunately, is still adding to global warming but most places in Britain look - and smell - better than they did when the Industrial Revolution was belching its noxious fumes.

Health care not only Congress' top priority - CNN.com

As one of the key sponsors, Boxer has noted that the bill has failed to gain traction because of factors including the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy and the health care reform debate.

But some Republicans have signaled that a bill will have a tough time passing.

"I think it's going to lead to significant increases in electricity across America in an effort to try to deal with a global problem. If we do have a global warming problem, and many people believe we do, we need to target it on a global basis," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, recently told Fox News Sunday.

South Dakota Politics: Global Warming On Hold. Again.

Remember all those frightening stories about ice sheets melting and San Francisco drowning and how it was all our fault? Well, apparently they aren't, and probably it isn't.

The End Doesn’t Justify the Means When you Deliberately Deceive: Tim Ball

Child Abuse of Future Generations?

Some of these predictions are already wrong, but all of them will be wrong. This is not surprising because the science on which they are built is deliberately false. An accurate prediction is encapsulated in James Froude’s comment that “Fear is the parent of cruelty.” The pain Obama and the deceiver’s actions will inflict on future generations are certain.

‘What I did on my summer vacation’—by Congress | Grist

Sen. Barbara Boxer, chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee: This summer I promoted my novel. Seriously! It’s a political thriller, and it’s thrilling. I also did some fundraising for my election in 2010. Then I remembered the whole country (and the whole world) needs me to move a climate change bill through the Senate. So I boldly announced that I would delay introducing a bill until later this month.