A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

The climate continues to deteriorate.

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

If the world were a village of 100 people, ... there would be 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, eight people from Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean, five from the U.S.A. and Canada, and one from Australia or New Zealand.

We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon's corrupt use of our tax dollars.