One can only hope that these Israeli and American moves represent simply the death throes of their clearly discredited view of their enemies as distinct and independent actors.
"The IPCC has worked hard to represent the scientific findings about climate change as clearly as possible and to treat uncertainties rigorously, " she said.
Clearly China and Russia do not represent our biggest adversaries in the world today, or the nations that we perceive to pose the greatest threat in terms of their intent to harm U.S. interests.
Whether the fires that again raged across Australia represent folly by man or Acts of God will be debated, but clearly much of the region is pushing its luck with land, water and air practices.