Washington Post: The world's predicament on climate change reminds me of an old saying: "The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.'
Despite mounting evidence that global warming is an urgent crisis, emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases grew faster between 2000 and 2010 than over the previous three decades, according to an authoritative new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Some governments have instituted policies to try to hold down emissions of carbon dioxide -- by far the biggest...