[Bill Nye still promoting the global warming hoax]

Bill Nye: Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us. And we don't have to look too far away to see why. Last week I attended NASA's Venus Exploration Group in Madison, WI, the data presented there was alarming.

There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean. It's the closest planet to earth and we can't even say for sure if there are giant active volcanoes on it, because that intense heat and thick air smother everything. Venus is a big science experiment, a real-life demonstration, of what happens when the greenhouse effect spirals out of control globally. So when I meet people who are skeptical of climate change, I have to ask them why? Whose interests do they think that serves? Certainly not ours. Certainly not earth's.

Letter of the day: Preserve forests' future by acting now on global warming | StarTribune.com

Ironically, our state's rich forests are on the front lines in fighting climate change because their trees absorb and store some of the carbon that otherwise would be changing the climate even faster. These forests, thanks to their size, also offer wildlife some flexibility to move as creatures try to adapt to such changes. Now is the time for Congress and the American people to get serious about global warming. We shouldn't wait until our tall, boreal forests become dry savannahs and the Boundary Waters becomes the Boundary Potholes.

Scenarios for Congress

In the House, Pelosi would face pressure from moderate Democrats to ditch liberal priorities like climate change that nearly sunk the party at the ballot box, and to cut deals with the Senate.