The hundreds of limousines and private jets that ferried environmentalists to the climate conference in Copenhagen ...more

December 18, 2009

Danish police fired pepper spray and beat protesters with batons outside the U.N. climate conference on Wednesday, as disputes inside left major issues unresolved just two days before world leaders hope to sign a historic agreement to fight global warming. ...more

December 16, 2009

The United States is counting on cows to help save the planet. ...more

December 15, 2009

Its agenda is to save the world, yet you don't overhear people talking about the climate summit in Copenhagen. ...more

December 15, 2009

China, India and other developing nations boycotted U.N. climate talks on Monday, bringing negotiations to a halt with their demand that rich countries discuss much deeper cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions. ...more

December 14, 2009

Show leadership I was very excited to read that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson released her agency's long-awaited Endangerment Finding, officially declaring global warming pollution a threat to pubic health. It places the EPA in a position to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and gives President Obama the ammunition he needs to promise real emissions reductions while he is at the U.N. climate negotiations in Copenhagen. ...more

December 13, 2009

An e-mail from my conscience: Reviewing your assorted botches during the past year, consider this one. In May, you mocked: "It is possible that climate change skeptics - the dominant Republican voices - have uncovered a vast scientific delusion, like the belief in phlogiston or phrenology. But ... this seems unlikely." In light of the incriminating e-mails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit of East Anglia University shouldn't you reconsider? Not since you pronounced "Jon & Kate Plus 8" a tribute to "normality and innocence" has your judgment been so poor. ...more

December 13, 2009

While many Republicans are predicting an increase in energy costs if we pass the cap and trade legislation, they are missing the big picture. The legislation will save exponentially more money than it will cost, as was seen with the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments. ...more

December 11, 2009

For a second time, representatives with the Florida Association of Counties will attempt to woo county commissioners back to their organization. ...more

December 6, 2009

On Oct. 21, 13 of the nation's leading professional agricultural, biological, chemical and geological organizations sent a joint letter to the U.S. Senate urging it to adopt policies that would limit U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. "Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver," they wrote. ...more

November 7, 2009