Has anyone noticed how the topic of climate change is conspicuous by its absence in the presidential race? Not that it’s a big deal - clearly, we have all the time in the world!
Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming, researchers reported yesterday, raising the prospect of faster sea-level rise than current estimates.

If it’s any consolation, Dick Cheney’s vacation home on the Maryland
shore will be inundated quicker than originally expected.
But Dubya’s getaway estate in the Paraguayan highlands will be out
of reach, alas.