Bloomberg: It's No Time for a Climate Skeptic in the White House

Here is our updated aphorism for the day: Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows a climate skeptic might be elected in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. This wasn't true last week for New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, but apparently Hurricane Sandy has brought him down from Mount Olympus. Now his mind is concentrated quite wonderfully indeed, and today he endorsed Barack Obama for president: Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienc...