Triple Pundit: 2012 seems set to go down in history as the year in which climate change became real for the United States. Over a period of six months, New York City flooded, the biggest drought in half a century settled into the Midwest, and wildfires burned 9.3 million acres in one of the worst fire seasons ever recorded.
By July last year, over 40,000 daily heat records had been broken in the U.S.
The question now is whether last years epic run of epic events will lead to new momentum for climate solutions....