Environmentalists have decided to exploit the death and devastation of Hurricane Katrina to win support for the failed Kyoto Protocol.

Throughout the news there are stories of victory and defeat from democracy in Venezuela to Notre Dame's football record.

The global warming hype is running out of (greenhouse?) gas, as it very much deserves.

The issue of hurricanes and climate change--a linkage not established in current climate science--distracts from the most significant environmental lessons of the Katrina disaster.

Perhaps the time has come to consider competition as the means of checking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's monopoly and generating more reliable climate science.

Stanley Crouch discusses a number of the year's events in the worlds of literature, politics, and popular culture in order to comment on the American condition.