In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.

If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy.

In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.

President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.