President elect Barack Obama 's speech via video to the bi-partisan Governors Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles this morning renews his stand against global warming, giving it to us correctly as a national security and economic issue.

This is in sharp contrast with the Bush administration's attempts to manipulate and censor the science in order to justify inaction.

"Refreshing to have an adult as incoming president," writes Greg Sargent in his coverage of the speech at TPM.

              

Associate Washington Post Editor Eugene Robinson's blog at the offers admiring insight into Democrat Barack Obama's Road Map on Race.

Faith in Public Life covers the Man Behind the Southern Baptist Climate Initiative. He is currently a seminarian at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in North Carolina and gives an interesting interview.

Semi-Happy Seventh Birthday today to DangerBush's Faith-Based Initiatives. Bill Berkowitz is a longtime observer of the conservative movement, writes about them accurately and with clarity.

Republican soon-to-be Presidential nominee John McCain's relationship with his ultra-right pastor is covered by Mother Jones' David Corn in McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam. After reading that you may agree that McCain really wants A permanent war, as does the Bush Administration.

Changing days have of late frequently blessed the lives of politically powerful members of the Christian Right. Jeff Sharlet covers them with acid humor in This is Not a Religion Column: Christian Candidate Quiz Bowl.

              

My affair with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration began when while I was a pre-teen, Honey Hill Road farm boy, launching small rockets over the heads of Baptist, Methodist and other friends.

This data visualization of global temperature differences from 1880 to 2007. Dark blue areas show regions where the temperature was cooler then the average temperature. Red areas show regions where the temperature was warmer then the average.

It was natural for me to seek global warming information at the Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio, where an animation of the Five-Year Average Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2007 awaited.

That's global warming in animated color -- the phenomenon an influential group of Southern Baptists addressed recently, to the considerable displeasure of their Republican-enthralled brethren.