Salon: We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations, President Obama announced back in January at his second-term inauguration. Thus began another year of steady climate change, continued pollution of the atmosphere and half-hearted attempts at changing the worlds dire trajectory. By many measures, 2013 wasnt particularly extreme: it it wasnt the hottest weve ever seen; its storms, by and large, werent the most...