OPINION: Climate vs. weather - Is it warming, or is it just too darn hot?

WASHINGTON — As Washington, D.C., endures a record ninth straight day of near-triple-digit temperatures, it might be hard for the city’s residents to remember that just two years ago, when the capital was blanketed with record snowfall, Republican senator and noted climate change skeptic James Inhofe and his family were building an igloo on the national mall to mock former vice president and leading environmentalist Al Gore.

By: Joshua E. Keating , Foreign Policy