While the world burns | Michael Tomasky

Via Yglesias I see that David Leonhardt of the NYT has a great column today on our wonderful Senate and climate change:

[Washington:] just endured its hottest June since records began in 1872, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. So did Miami. Atlanta suffered its second-hottest June, and Dallas had its third hottest...

...Yet when United States senators and their aides file into work on Wednesday, on yet another 90-degree day, they may be on the verge of deciding...