Daily Climate: During the 2008 presidential campaign, a press conference was held at the National Press Club with the goal of trying to inject environmental issues into the debates. It failed miserably, but it was also informative because every question asked by a reporter was about global warming.
This single-minded focus is a mistake we make at our peril.
Then, as now, a major portion of the press and the public seems to think that "global change" and "climate change" are synonymous, and that the latter...