/block-inner, /block /#pre-page Skip to Navigation Skip to Content Mother Jones /#logo-title /block-inner, /block /#header-blocks /#header-inner, /#header Home Politics Environment Culture Photo Essays Blogs Political MoJo Kevin Drum Blue Marble Tom Philpott Mixed Media Subscribe Donate /#primary Script for SUPERFISH /#navbar-inner, /#navbar Search this site: /block-inner, /block Must Reads: Inside the Mammoth Backlash to Common Core | What It's Like to Be an NFL Wife .truncate_less /node-inner, /node /block-inner, /block /block-inner, /block Environment → Climate Change , Climate Desk /#content-header —By Eric Holthaus | Tue Sep. 30, 2014 6:00 AM EDT node header data Tweet Email Rex F/AP This story originally appeared in Slate and is republished here as part of the Climate Desk col...