EcoWatch: It is often said that travel broadens horizons. Such was the case when Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges left the City of Lakes for Rome this week. About half-way through her second day at the Vatican, attending an international conference of mayors organized by Pope Francis that began Tuesday, Hodges had an epiphany: climate change isnt up for debate in the rest of the world.
[I] just realized that climate change deniers cast a pall on the conversation in the United States," Hodges, a Democrat,...