NYMag: On May 6, a team of more than 300 climate scientists and experts released the third U.S. National Climate Assessment, which reported, Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present. The Obama administration had intended the Climate Assessment to underscore the urgency of new regulations to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, which it will unveil next month.
But the point was underscored far more dramatically, and by events the...