ClimateWire: The aughts were an inconvenient time for environmentalism. President George W. Bush declared the Kyoto Protocol, the first international treaty meant to address climate change, dead. Environmentalists charged widespread political interference in climate change science conducted at federal agencies. Most people had not heard of global warming.
Then former Vice President Al Gores An Inconvenient Truth landed with a thud on the publics consciousness. It grossed $24 million, won two Academy Awards...