The Romney campaign's strategy to deny climate change and crack jokes about the president pledging to solve the issue may prove to be a poor decision.

While Sandy has impacted campaign schedules, she has not yet altered the agenda, let alone the day's talking points.

"Climate change made Storm Sandy more intense. Climate change is responsible for dozens of deaths and billions of dollars of damage. And it is going to get worse."

With the damage from Hurricane Sandy still being assessed and states struggling to restore basic services to millions of residents, a new ad from clim...

Though Governor Romney has used climate change as joke material, it is no laughing matter in Florida, a place that has been called "ground zero when it comes to sea level rise."

It was a rich, if abbreviated exchange. "President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans," declared Mitt Romney, the Republican pres...

With the dire effects of climate change becoming more and more apparent, the push for politicians to take action in order to prevent an estimated 100 ...

President Obama's failure to speak out repeatedly on the urgency of climate action is his biggest communications mistake. If our leaders don't talk about an issue, it generally won't become sufficiently salient for either the media or the public.

Mitt Romney outraged environmental activists on Sunday, telling NBC's David Gregory, "I'm not in this race to slow the rise of the oceans or to heal t...

This attack is shameful because global warming is the gravest preventable threat to our children's health and well-being -- and because Romney said it in Tampa, which is among the U.S. cities most threatened by global warming and sea level rise.

It's hard to escape the irony of an intense storm hurtling toward the Republican Convention. Extreme weather is a hallmark of climate change -- a topic GOP lawmakers avoid like the plague.

Climate has never been an easy issue for the American political system. We do much better with problems that have a geographic home, can be seen and felt, and have an immediate visible impact.

Are they owned by the oil companies, or are they willing to break from some of the GOP's largest campaign donors? Do they agree with 98 percent of scientists, or are facts mere inconveniences to be pushed aside for ideology and ambition?