The last two years saw the protracted death of climate change legislation. Here, in an exclusive new comic, we tell the sordid tale. Click the image to begin:


(Written by me, illustrated by Thomas Pitilli, lettering and headers by Warp Graphics.)

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  1. 2008: A New Hope
  2. Spring 2009: The House Gets to Work
  3. Summer 2009: Dawn of the Dead
  4. Winter ’09 – Spring ’10: Senate Follies
  5. 2010: Failure
  6. 2011 on: What Next?

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