Post and Courier: Future generations may look back on 2012 as the year the majority of our country took climate destabilization seriously, largely due to record heat waves, droughts and Hurricane Sandy.
Recent polls suggest this is the case, and in his 2013 State of the Union, President Barack Obama explicitly addressed climate change: "We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations."
Shortly after, 35,000 Americans gathered...