Christian Science Monitor: Barack Obama delivered a brief video message Wednesday to the Governors’ Global Climate Summit in Beverly Hills, Calif., in which he unequivocally affirmed the scientific basis of climate change and vowed to take action on cutting carbon emissions, in spite of the troubled global economy. The president-elect declined, however, to attend next month’s climate talks in Poznan, Poland. A number of activists, including Greenpeace and 350.org have been urging him to go, arguing that his …