The most recent report from the world’s top climate scientists is not overflowing with optimism: drought, disease, famine, smog-related deaths. “This is the story. This is the whole play. This is how it’s going to affect people. The science is one thing. This is how it affects me, you and the person next door,” says University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver.

At least the debate is not whether climate change is actually happening. Now we’re figuring where to spend the money to fight it.

An Oxford University survey has determined what many have long suspected: rich men are ruining the planet for everyone else. And they’re doing it primarily by flying.

Not exactly a riot, but NDP leader Jack Layton was out to show support for international measures to fight climate change.

We keep hearing that the environment is not a partisan issue. Now the Liberals and Greens are actually cooperating, proving that it is possible that something good can come out of the crisis of global warming.

“What you need to point out to these people is that global warming is just the latest of a long line of efforts on the part of liberals around the world to grow government, to raise taxes, to increase regulation, and to limit the behavior of a free people, because that is their real objective.” Thanks, Mr. Limbaugh.

“The problem with The Great Global Warming Swindle, which caused a sensation when it was broadcast on Channel 4 last week, is that to make its case it relies not on future visionaries, but on people whose findings have already been proved wrong. “

“What matters about climate change is not whether we can predict the future with some desired level of certainty and accuracy; it is whether we have sufficient foresight, supported by wisdom, to allow our perspective about the future, and our responsibility for it, to be altered.”