To build resilience to the impact of global warming, the United States should incorporate an adaptation agenda as well as advance technologies that allow the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

The same level of openness, transparency, and consultation in the scientific elements of the decision-making process should infuse every element of the public policy development process.

Smart grid technologies and an energy policy that creates a source-neutral framework for energy demand would bolster competition and could ultimately eliminate the need for price guarantees by state regulators.

Do global warming initiatives create jobs?

President Obama is giving yet another Big Speech next week. The White House insists this address will have nothing to do with partisan politics and everything to do with getting Americans back to work. Well, suspend your own disbelief as best you can. But one thing is certain: The president will enter the chamber "shovel ready," as it were. Here is the speech that should be given by the president:

Every day patients receive treatments that do not work properly. For many this means no relief from symptoms, but for some death is the result. Yet concerted action against such products is limited. Before we can discuss why that's the case, I will attempt to explain what kind of products don’t work, and what we should call them.

According to political scientist Alan Lichtman, one factor favoring President Obama's re-election is the absence of scandal in his administration. Lichtman may have spoken too soon. The reason can be capsulized in a single word: Solyndra.

President Obama and his team came into office insisting that they were on top of things and above mere ideological considerations. They were wrong.