Brad Johnson calls out the "Climate Peacocks" in Congress who are ostentatiously shaking their tailfeathers in mock outrage over the very idea that the Environmental Protection Agency might actually act as agents of environmental protection: Earlier this month, 47 senators -- every Republican and six Democrats -- voted for Sen. Lisa Murkowski's (R-AK) resolution to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's scientific global warming endangerment finding, finalized after years of delay in following a Supreme Court mandate to obey the language of the Clean Air Act. Twenty of Murkowski's supporters claimed they voted to reject science in order to preserve the …

As the debate over the climate bill heats up, there's one rule of thumb that may help you keep your bearings as the rhetoric becomes more gaseous and the weeds grow ever higher around the facts. It's this: There are, in the end, only four possible futures here. Future 1: Continuation More business as usual. The people favoring this approach aren't just the deniers; they're also the people who intellectually understand and accept the reality of global heating, but are so locked into the status quo and its systems that they're either unable to imagine or impotent to instigate the …

Copenhagen's still three weeks away, but climate activists are already voicing their enormous disappointment about everything that's not going to get done there. The heat is rising, and we're all feeling the overwhelming urgency to get a strong global agreement that will get the laggards off their butts and launch the structural reformations most of us know we need to fix the problem. A lot of us, it seems, loaded all our highest hopes onto this one conference, wanting desperately to believe that this would finally be the moment the long-awaited Grand Transformation would occur. But the hard truth of …