How Hard Is Obama Trying on Global Warming? -- Politics Daily

That means climate change is an issue that calls for unprecedented leadership. And this challenge has been thrust upon Obama. At the end of the W. years, I thought that future historians might harshly judge Bush less for his invasion of Iraq than for his dithering on climate change. Obama is indeed trying on this front. But if he doesn't try harder, he could end up, decades from now, being paired with Bush, when the toddlers of today are then wondering, who let the planet burn?

Senate climate [hoax] bill debate delayed - UPI.com

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. Senate debate on a sweeping climate change bill will be delayed until the spring, the chamber's Democratic leaders said.

Ahead of considering climate change legislation are bills that would reform the U.S. healthcare system, overhaul financial markets and stimulate job creation, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Op-Ed Contributor - Ben Franklin on Global Warming - NYTimes.com

In the 1780s, Thomas Jefferson opined in his “Notes on Virginia” that “both heats and colds are become much more moderate within the memory even of the middle-aged,” expressing views articulated as early as 1721 by Cotton Mather: “Our cold is much moderated since the opening and clearing of our woods, and the winds do not blow roughly as in the days of our fathers, when water, cast up into the air, would commonly be turned into ice before it came to the ground.”