THE ROOF, THE ROOF, THE ROOF IS ON FIRE...: Last week, "science
academies from 11 of the world's leading industrial and developing
nations...issued a warning that nations must tackle climate change."
When it comes to climate change, the broad consensus is that the debate
is over. As such, several senators are "hatching plans to offer
climate-change initiatives as amendments to the [energy] bill."
Environmental activists are "heartened by this flutter of activity."
According to the Natural Resources Defence Council, "This does
represent a shift in debate in the Senate where we have reached very
broad agreement, despite a few holdouts, that this is a scientific
reality that needs to be addressed by government."

....WE DON'T NEED NO WATER: The Bush administration still maintains that
"more study is needed before the United States takes further action on
climate change." Considering the doctored reports they're reading, this
is almost a logical assumption. Unsurprisingly, as senators "try to
insert language to rein in emissions believed to be contributing to
global climate change...the administration made clear it would oppose
any such move."