Today a hodgepodge, starting with an editorial of Edward Felsenthal, editor-in-chief and CEO of  Time  magazine from the latest 8-15November2021 issue on COP26: Educated at Princeton and Tufts, with a Harvard law degree. 55-year-old has been chief editor now for four years. Today, as 20,000 delegates from 196 countries   head to Glasgow   for the most important global gathering on climate change in years, it’s easy to be cynical about the world’s commitment to addressing its existential crisis. President Xi Jinping of China, which recently announced plans for 43 new coal-fired power plants, as well as leaders of some nations that have shown the most hesitancy for change, including Brazil, Mexico and Russia, are skipping the conference.   And yet there has been considerable progress over the past couple of years. Before COP21 in 2015, the world was on track to be more than 4°C hotter by the end of this century than at the dawn of the industrial era; that number has since come down to ju