Yesterday, 13 U.S. Senators, including Al Franken from Minnesota, signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Reid, urging him to ensure that legislation does not weaken the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to protect human health by regulating coal-fired power plants and other global warming polluters.

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Despite recent rebuttals to the contrary, global warming is a real threat to Americans. Even the U.S. military agrees. In the new video "Climate Patriots: A Military Perspective on Energy, Climate Change and American National Security," recently released by the PEW Project, leaders of the U.S. Armed Forces weigh in on their experiences gearing up for and preventing climate change. The overall gist: climate change will increase terrorism, will require more military spending, and will create a need for a greater U.S. military presence abroad. So we need to be taking action now.

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Employed or not, jobs are on all of our minds these days. The word pops up everywhere, especially in conversations about clean energy and climate policy. But what would a climate policy actually do for American jobs? A recent update by Economics for Equity and the Environment (E3) might shed some light on the subject. The Climate Policy and Jobs: An Update on What Economists Know report highlights two main findings based on the knowledge of five leading economists. The bottom line: climate policy keeps and creates jobs.

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President Obama has voiced that "climate change is one of the defining challenges of our time." In his State of the Union, he expressed the importance of passing a comprehensive clean energy bill in order to meet this challenge and help recover the American economy. In the recently released 2010 Economic Report of the President, it was reported that "a clean energy transformation is essential."

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Today at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota, I met a man who had been a student in a higher-learning situation for the past 7 years, but had never heard how global warming would directly affect Minnesotans. I was just as surprised as he was.

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The American Corn Growers Association (ACGA) is speaking out in strong support of national energy and climate legislation. Keith Dittrich, chairman of the board of the ACGA, spoke January 15 in Chicago. A corn and soybean farmer from Nebraska, Dittrich addressed cap and trade policy as an opportunity to "save our productive environment."

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