Hartford Courant: Climate change has been blamed for raising the sea level and eroding the shoreline, but the issue is a political firestorm so divisive that most legislative efforts have stalled in Congress. U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, both Democrats from Connecticut, have worked to pass legislation that would combat global warming that they say threatens the Nutmeg State. Blumenthal notes that scientifically substantiated climate change will adversely affect agriculture, infrastructure and...