Nobel Peace Prize

The New York Times government and political blog the Caucus was reporting Wednesday morning that President Obama will attend the United Nations global climate change summit in Copenhagen next month, where he will commit to reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

After burying skeptics under mounds of Nobel Peace Prize-worthy research, members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change push for serious government action.