Salon: Standing before University of California at Irvine`s graduating class this June, Barack Obama did something no U.S. president has done before: He stood up for climate science. Not only did the president make a strong case for taking immediate action to mitigate global warming, he delivered a withering critique of climate deniers, whom he likened to those who would suggest the moon was "made of cheese.
Even more outrageous, writes journalist Mark Hertsgaard, is a comment Obama made on Showtime`s...