Why didn't EPA adminstrator Lisa P. Jackson fulfill "high hopes of sweeping action to address climate change"?

Maybe you can find clues in the NYT article about her departure. I note: After his re-election, and a campaign in which global warming was ...

"By far the most important debate about climate change is taking place among scientists, on the issue of climate sensitivity..."

"How much warming will a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide actually produce?" The conclusion... is this: A doubling of CO2 wi...

"A newly released study finds that ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are disappearing three times faster than they were two decades ago..."

"... the latest evidence supporting the existence of global warming."

"U.S. birthrate plummets to its lowest level since 1920."

"The decline could have far-reaching implications for U.S. economic and social policy." Is this an emergency? Like global warming,...

Will we relocate hundreds of millions of people...

... if the low-lying islands of the world are swallowed by rising oceans? Maybe you think it won't happen, but what if it does? Can you ...

A 99.7% reduction in the coffee supply.

Predicted.

"Climate scientists agree the Earth will be hotter by the end of the century, but their simulations don’t agree on how much."

"Now a study suggests the gloomier predictions may be closer to the mark."

Tammy and Tommy debated again last night.

We'd gone out to the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery to hear physicist Sean M. Carroll give a talk about the universe . The universe ...

"Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released..."

"[T]he ‘plateau’ or ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 198...

"When the doper’s code of silence around Lance Armstrong cracked, Sheryl Crow was obliged to sing."

"Crow, who was once engaged to the tarnished cyclist, provided information last year in a far-reaching federal investigation into the d...

God disapproves of Republicans.

Suggests Dana Milbank noting the following trinity of occurrences: ●A report comes out that a couple dozen House Republicans engaged in an ...

"Carbon Credits Gone Awry Raise Output of Harmful Gas."

Manufacturers "quickly figured out that they could earn one carbon credit by eliminating one ton of carbon dioxide, but could earn more...

"Both as Wayne and as super-Wayne he seems indifferent, as the films themselves are, to the activities of little people..."

"... and to the claims of the everyday, preferring to semi-purse his lips, as if preparing to whistle for an errant dog, and stare pens...

Global warming will expand forests over what are now grasslands.

According to a new study , "savanna trees were essentially CO2-starved under pre-industrial CO2 concentrations, and that their growth r...

"Does gender equality produce income inequality?"

Asks Instapundit linking to this article about the way women pair up with men from the same socioeconomic class. Doctors used to marry nur...

Post-recall progressive regrets: We should have escalated the protests instead of ceding our ground to the Democratic Party.

Here 's Matthew Rothschild, the editor of The Progressive, writing in Isthmus: [T]he movement -- a real giant grassroots movement, which...

Is a mobile fresh-fruits-and-veggies vendor in a city's so-called "food desert" a good idea?

Madison is full of grocery stores, but it has a neighborhood that that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has labeled a "food desert,...

"The alarmists who warn about recent man-made global warming are the ones who deny the reality of climate change."

"They are, in fact, advocates of climate stasis . They assume that the 'normal' climate is basically what it was in 1970 — not ...

"We know who the active denialists are – not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the people who create the lies."

"Let’s start keeping track of them now, and when the famines come, let’s make them pay. Let’s let their houses burn. Let’s swap their s...

The Hilary Rosen flap shows the way to a new bipartisanship premised on the value of single-earner households.

Yes, Hilary Rosen disrespected Ann Romney, who, she said, had "actually not worked a day in her life." Fine. Everybody learned th...