Politician Rob Cornilles says that there’s no science that proves that humans are to blame for climate change. The National Academy of Sciences begs to differ. Who are you going to believe?

The Save Our Climate Act would protect us from the economic damage of climate change, and eventually provide dividend checks to American citizens of over one thousand dollars per year. What’s not to like about that?

Congressman Jay Inslee and law professor Maxine Burkett were just two of the many citizens of the world who joined together yesterday in a special effort to bring the dangers of climate change to the attention of their neighbors and colleagues.

Blake Farenthold said that global warming was just a scare tactic, but now he’s begging Washington D.C. for help with record-breaking fire and drought in Texas that was caused by global warming.

Todd Akin refuses to cite the factual grounds for his suspicion that global warming isn’t really taking place. Scientists have raw data and tested climate models. Congressman Akin, it seems, has nothing but a hunch.

A report from the National Academy of Sciences warned Congress that global warming is real, that the causes are largely human, and that the cost of inaction would be grave. Yet, Congress has taken no comprehensive action as a result of that scientific report.

Anti-environment riders in the budget deal agreed to by Obama are not substantially about deficit reduction, because the programs and positions they create are related to only a very small expense. Republicans oppose them because of their contribution to environmental protections, not because of spending issues.

This study may have a strong impact itself – on the debate over whether to allow fracking, which creates significant risks of pollution of groundwater, to be conducted over large areas of the United States that have been heretofore untouched. Natural gas has been promoted as a “clean burning” energy source, when compared to coal and petroleum, but the release of dangerous gases in the mining process has not been taken into account in such analyses.

Earlier this week we learned of an bill introduced by Senator John Barrasso that finally brought a caucus of oil industry-supported legislators in the Senate to the point of acknowledging that a certain class of chemicals released by industry act as greenhouse gases and have a warming effect upon the climate. This remarkable bill, S. [...]

Now that even James Inhofe admits that global warming is a real threat, Congress needs to pass legislation quickly to confront the danger.