On this 54th Anniversary of America's first Earth Day celebration‚ it is a time to reflect on how we moved from a consensus on the urgent need for environmental protection across the country to woefully underestimating the need for action about climate change. A recent study shows that most Europeans and Americans acknowledge that the climate is warming and that a warming planet will likely hurt humankind. At the same time‚ there is a distortion of the scientific consensus about the data‚...