The climate continues to deteriorate.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

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

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

Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos.

What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack of college degrees. I mean lack of the basic art of democracy, the ability to seek the great truths that can come only by synthesizing the small truths possessed by each of us.