Copenhagen

Given the terrible beginning of winter in the U.S. and Europe this year, we ought to reward those who accurately predicted it and condemn those who got it wrong. It's time to choose the winner of this year's "Best Climate Predictor" awar…

Crossposted with TomDispatch.com. The UN’s big Climate Conference ended Saturday in Cancún, with claims of modest victory. "The UN climate talks are off the life-support machine," said Tim Gore of Oxfam. “Not as rancorous as l…

The revelation that the Obama Administration used a covert CIA program to dig up dirt on countries opposed to the Copenhagen climate treaty shows a White House desperate to enforce its orthodoxy on Global Warming, Oklahoma Republican Sen. James …

Rumors are flying that John McCain and Lindsey Graham have cut a deal with the White House to put off consideration of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in the lame-duck, in exchange for their active support of New START. Fwiw… If true, this…

Negotiators from about 190 countries reached a modest set of agreements early Saturday in Cancun on how to tackle Global Warming but punted some of the most Controversial questions for a later date. A year after U.N.-led talks all but collapsed…

I’m with Jay. At one point as it was nearing 5 P.M., Bill Clinton announced “I gotta get out of here.” Had he only uttered them in December 1998 instead.  Eric Holder and Ken Salazar have sent letters to Sens. Reid andMcConn…