House creates climate change committee

The body will not be empowered to create legislation, but will investigate climate change and energy independence with an eye towards creating a record which will support future policymaking. 44 Republicans supported this committee. Perhaps the 150 opponents hope that we can address the problem by ignoring it.

I'm really glad that there is more and more movement in this direction -- both because it's an incredibly important issue and because it's an Al Gore issue. Somehow this feels a bit like karma or like a happy ending afterall.

Climate change a problem? Only if you think it should never change.