Extreme heat provides an opportunity that allows climate believers, agnostics, and deniers to work together to address a common threat to our society.

It is well past time to move our attention off the sports pages and to treat climate statistics with the same seriousness and passion as sports records.

The Great Drought of 2012 has yet to come to an end, but we already know that its consequences will be severe. With more than one-half of America's counties designated as drought disaster areas, the 2012 harvest of corn and other food staples is guaranteed to fall far short of predictions.

Make no mistake, carbon pollution is the main reason our planet is getting hotter. It's time to listen to what the earth is telling us loud and clear.

The newest GDP release shows an increase of 1.5 percent in the second quarter of 2012, down from a 1.9 percent growth in the first quarter and three percent growth in 2011. But, as Dēmos continually asks in our Beyond GDP work: What exactly is GDP measuring?

As a nation, and more importantly as the next generation, we'll only rise to action if there is something left to hope for.

The summer from hell continues to bring wave after wave of extreme weather events, and each one provides yet another example of what climate change is doing to our families and businesses.

One swallow does not make a summer. But when unusual, extreme weather events begin to happen with increased intensity and frequency, they should make us ponder.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With temperatures in the 90s on Wednesday, tourist carriages left the French Quarter empty after just one round — it was too ho...