Waiting for the end, boys Correction: MoveOn.org ReprintsEven in the new culture-rich climate, running the Carnival Centre is quite a challenge.
Scientists may be reluctant to link Hurricane Sandy with climate change, but extreme events could be the tipping point that wakes America up to the seriousness of global warming, according to Tom Steyer, probably the richest climate change champion in the US, and arguably the most effective.
Four years ago, LeBron clumsily announced his departure from his home-state Cavaliers for the sunnier, talent-rich climate of the Miami Heat, where the all-star players Heat management surrounded LeBron with helped him deliver two NBA championships.
After losing their fight for Proposition 23 in California, one might have hoped the world would be safe from oil-rich climate deniers Charles and David Koch for a little while.
Steyer and Taylor are among the ultra-rich climate activists whose impatience with the impact of food production on the environment has them moving beyond writing checks for research projects and scientific institutes to personally picking up cattle prods and pitchforks.
Furthermore, air conditioners are a luxury accessible only to the richest of the rich, whereas climate change is a phenomenon that most affects the poorest of the poor.
Never mind the city's rich cultural climate that has spawned David Mamet, pop sensations like the Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair, and high-profile fashion designers like Cynthia Rowley, a local girl who moved to Manhattan and made good.
In March, developing countries, including some of the nations most vulnerable to sea level rise, called for new regulations to limit the influence of corporate lobbyists on rich countries' climate delegations.
That cut through the reality of the rich-poor "climate divide".
In today's cash-rich political climate, then, the biggest challenge for candidates may no longer be raising money, but spending it wisely.
