Let’s play "Jeopardy." Round One: Science Literacy. Category: Evolution. For $500: Which is the largest demographic group to reject Darwin’s theory of evolution?”

According to Chris Mooney’s best selling new book, The Republican Brain, a follow up to his 2007 polemic The Republican War on Science, the answer is easy:...

The international diplomacy of climate change is the most implausible and unpromising initiative since the disarmament talks of the 1930s, and for many of the same reasons; that the Kyoto Protocol and its progeny are the climate diplomacy equivalent of the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 that promised to end war (a treaty that is still on the books, by the way), and finally, that future historians are going to look back on this whole period as the climate policy equivalent of wage and price controls to fight inflation in the 1970s.

The 1992 Rio Earth Summit produced an important, common sense consensus in favor of avoiding "dangerous interference" with the global climate. Rio, however, led to the Kyoto Protocol, which abandoned the focus on reliable science and effective policy in favor of arbitrary, unrealistic targets and timetables. Kyoto, for all practical...

The greens have been so friendly with Democrats and so relentlessly hostile to all Republicans--even ones with conventionally pro-environment records--that Republicans have little reason to accommodate their views.

With complicated recycling that links the Heinz foundations to John Kerry'spresidential campaign, no wonder the H. J. Heinz Co. frets.

At a time when so many developing nations are struggling to provide decent lives for their citizens, Kyoto-style measures will prolong poverty.

Gore himself has done incalculable harm to the cause of combating global warming.

Vested interests in Europe and the United States relentlessly press for a global treaty to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.