Secrets and Lies

"If you were teaching a graduate seminar in public policy and challenged your students to come up with the most difficult possible problem to solve, they'd come up with something very much like climate change. It's slow-acting. It's essentially invisible. It's expensive to address. It has a huge number of very rich special interests arrayed against doing anything about it. It requires international action that pits rich countries against poor ones. And it has a lot of momentum: you have to take action now, before its effects are serious, because today's greenhouse gases will cause climate change tomorrow no matter what we do in thirty years."

CATCHING UP:
* Four prediction models weigh in on the election.
* Eyeballing the economic impact of the hurricane.
* The Supreme Court takes on drug-sniffing dogs.
* Good read on 'insider' political knowledge.
* How Canada turned its economy around.
* Examining why Republicans likely won't take the Senate on Tuesday.
* Romney's five dumbest proposed budget cuts.
* Yes, Disney buying Star Wars was a good move.
* Zen Pencils gives us Ira Glass's advice for beginners.