Democrats Move on Climate Change

After years of conservative obfuscation and inaction, there are finally signs of progress on climate change.  And it can't come too soon, in a week when the "Doomsday Clock" has been moved two minutes closer to midnight, in part because of the catastrophic threat of climate change. 

Bob Dylan once sang "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."  And you know the winds are changing in Washington when Presidential candidates are sponsoring climate change bills, electrical utility CEOs are appearing at Democratic press conferences on carbon caps, leaders in the scientific and religious communities are committing to "fight the causes of climate change and the public confusion on the subject," and ABC News uses a "breaking news" banner to announce: