Climate-news watchers may have done a double-take if they caught a look at a story in today’s Washington Times. It reported that: “President Bush is poised to change course and announce as early as this week that he wants Congress to pass a bill to combat global warming.” If the account proves true, it will signal a Georgie-come-lately understanding by our President of the need to act on the disturbing revelations that climate scientists have been sounding about a warming of our planet. In contrast, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama have all been stumping that climate war...

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