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The late John McCain — a member of the shrinking tribe of climate-forward Republicans — once griped, “It’s always darkest before it’s totally black.” His gallows humor quip seems apt right now when it comes to the defining challenge of…

“Did you get the L?” “Did you get the O?” As science writers Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon recount in their 1996 book on the birth of the Internet, Where Wizards Stay Up Late , it took a phone call…