InsideClimate News: This was the year climate change vanished from the political agenda--and then suddenly reappeared, after Hurricane Sandy shook the country.
It was just a few years ago that President Obama flew to Copenhagen to rescue faltering climate-treaty talks amid bipartisan calls for global warming action. But in 2012, there wasn't a single congressional proposal or hearing on climate legislation. Neither was there mention of climate change on the presidential campaign trail, or in the debates for the first...