In certain ways, I think the work in the Evangelical community has been the most interesting and the most promising. Partly because Evangelical congregations may be harder to convince about issues but, on the other hand, are more likely to do something about it.

A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.

For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.

"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.

Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

My house is covered in solar panels, I'm a great believer in all this - we all should be doing this.

Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.