Lauren Feldman (American): Cloudy with a Chance of Heat Balls: The Portrayal of Global Warming on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Petra Bartosiewicz and Marissa Miley (Columbia): The Too Polite Revolution: Why the Recent Campaign to Pass Comprehensive Climate Legislation in the United States Failed. Yes, Obama can tackle climate change alone. Cass Sunstein on why the U.S. should act unilaterally on climate change. An idea whose time has come: It's not just Obama — the entire world is ready to get serious about climate change. From Monthly Review, John Bellamy Foster on James Hansen and the climate-change exit strategy. Shaping the Anthropocene: Getting control of carbon emissions isn’t the end of the story — in fact, it’s just the beginning. What if climate change were sped up? Hannah Waters wonders.
