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Outside
March 2006
Bruce Barcott |
The Heat is On New reports from global-warming hot spots explore a chilling reality: Life as we know it is changing fast. These books explain why: Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and Chasing Spring: An American Journey Through a Changing Season.   |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
Paul McFedries |
Changing Climate, Changing Language That humans are having a negative effect on the world's climate is almost universally regarded as a fact in scientific circles, but global warming stubbornly remains in the realm of fantasy in some political and business circles. |
Scientific American
May 2006
Marguerite Holloway |
What Makes a Revolution? Let's hope Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert is not just lightly compared to Silent Spring. Let's hope it is this era's galvanizing text. |
Geotimes
December 2003
Megan Sever |
Humans impact the climate, says AGU The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has adopted a new position statement on climate change that recognizes the increasing alteration of the Earth's climate by human activities. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
William B. Gail |
Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Lee Gerhard |
Testing Global Warming Hypotheses Global climate change has been a natural phenomenon driven by natural processes for 4.5 billion years. Nevertheless, cultural pressures exist to identify a human cause for current global climate change. |
Popular Mechanics
July 1, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
5 Climate Studies That Don't Live Up to Their Hype A leading climate scientist argues that overbroad claims by some researchers -- coupled with overblown reporting in the media -- can undermine the public's understanding of climate issues. |
Geotimes
November 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Past warming for the future As the Bush administration prepares for a second term, only time will tell how its climate change policy will change in the next four years. In the meantime, discussions of the science behind climate changes abound in the journals and within the scientific community. |
BusinessWeek
August 16, 2004
John Carey |
Global Warming Consensus is growing among scientists, governments, and business that they must act fast to combat climate change. This has already sparked efforts to limit CO2 emissions. Many companies are now preparing for a carbon-constrained world. |
Science News
April 11, 2009
Michel Jarraud |
Bracing For Global Climate Change Is A Local Challenge The secretary-general of the U.N. World Meteorological Organization discusses whether global climate change is real. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 32
David Bradley |
Climatic models A fundamental flaw in our models of global climate change has been exposed by Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. |
Scientific American
June 2006
Michael Shermer |
The Flipping Point How the evidence for anthropogenic global warming has converged to cause this environmental skeptic to make a cognitive flip |
Scientific American
August 2009
David Appell |
Stumbling Over Data: Mistakes Fuel Climate-Warming Skeptics Do minor errors erode public support on climate issues? |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Top Climate News Stories of 2006 A new public face for climate change... Strong debate over storms... Thawing ice shifts water cycles... Methane climate menagerie... etc. |
Lucire
June 12, 2015 |
Women must be at the forefront of climate change solutions Susi Newborn gives a warning that our planet is facing a critical danger, and women are on the frontline |
Investment Advisor
June 2009
Robert F. Keane |
The Green Advisor: More On Climate Change Climate change can present some healthy investment opportunities for your clients, even if you don't believe it's real. |
Geotimes
March 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
Climate Report Points Finger at Fossil Fuels The world is warming, and the burning of fossil fuels is very likely to blame, according to a new report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. |
Outside
April 2007 |
Canon Fodder Ten 21st-century instant classics for the savvy environmentalist's bookshelf. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2008 |
Climate Change and Its Consequences A new book -- Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change Exploring the Real Risks and How We Can Avoid Them -- is discussed. |
Geotimes
February 2007
Katherine Unger |
Climate to Blame in Cultural Collapses The Anasazi people in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest disappeared suddenly, possibly due to climate change that made food and water sources scarce. Researchers are now linking several past periods of climate change with failed civilizations. |
Chemistry World
November 5, 2014 |
Emissions must hit zero by 2100, says IPCC The International Panel on Climate Change says that carbon emissions will have to fall to zero by 2100, but that the means to achieve this are economically affordable. |
Reason
November 2008 |
Letters Letters to the Editor: Carbon: tax, trade, or deregulate?... |
Geotimes
September 2003
Megan Sever |
Climate debate in the journals, on the Hill While few people disagree that Earth's surface has warmed over the past few decades, the arguments and accusations start flying when the discussion turns to whether or not the warming is an anomalous result of human activity or part of natural climate change. |
Scientific American
March 2009
David Appell |
Can "Assisted Migration" Save Species from Global Warming? As the world warms up, some species cannot move to cooler climes in time to survive. Camille Parmesan thinks humans should help even if it means creating invasive species |
Chemistry World
April 3, 2014
Maria Burke |
Latest climate report sees a bigger role for adaptation The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that science can offer ways to adapt to climate change and reduce risk -- something that should be used in combination with cutting emissions. |
Geotimes
June 2007
Fred Schwab |
Plunging into the Debate on Climate Change Debate continues about whether the warming effects of greenhouse gases are overshadowed by natural events. |
Geotimes
April 2005
Michael Glantz |
What Makes Good Climates Go Bad? Climates are constantly changing in both linear and nonlinear ways and over the course of life on Earth, organisms have either adjusted to those changes or perished. |
Geotimes
August 2006 |
Geomedia On exhibit: The Traveling Smithsonian... Books: Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology... The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather and the Destruction of Civilizations... |
Chemistry World
April 2007
Mark Peplow |
Editorial: Swindled? The bottom line is that just a few degrees increase in global average temperatures is likely to have a severe impact on human life. The silver lining of anthropogenic climate change is that, being man-made, at least we stand a chance of doing something about it. |
BusinessWeek
September 24, 2009 |
Feuding Over Climate Change Which corporations are for, and which against, a climate bill? Read on to see. |
Chemistry World
July 21, 2009
Anna Lewcock |
Degrees of freedom The global nature of the climate change offers both opportunities and challenges. The US, for example, is keen to establish international cooperation and collaboration in climate change research |
Geotimes
July 2006
Megan Sever |
Climate Resolution A resolution on global warming, stating that the House of Representatives recognizes that warming is real and caused by excessive greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, reached the floor of the House, but was blocked from a vote. |
BusinessWeek
July 17, 2006
John Carey |
Business On A Warmer Planet Rising temperatures and later winters are already costing millions. Here's how some companies are adapting to the new reality. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2008
Stoss & Stoss |
Heating Up for Global Warming Research and Policy The critical actions in combating global warming call for individuals, neighborhoods, communities, and geopolitical entities to implement a concept of global warming ICE. |
Science News
August 4, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Cloudy Crystal Balls Computer models may never be able to predict climate accurately. |
Geotimes
November 2006
Megan Sever |
Conveyor Belt Shutdown Not Imminent As the climate warms and ice on Greenland melts, freshwater pours into the North Atlantic, which new research suggests is unlikely to cause a shutdown in global ocean circulation. |
Popular Mechanics
December 1, 2009
Peter Kelemen |
What East Anglia's E-mails Really Tell Us About Climate Change What stolen e-mails from climate scientists corresponding with East Anglia University tell us about global warming and what they don't. |
Geotimes
April 2005 |
Geomedia Arctic Climate Change in Photos... Book review: Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages by Doug Macdougall... Mapping Sinkhole Risk in Maryland... |
Scientific American
April 2007
David Biello |
Conservative Climate The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's consensus document may understate the climate change problem. |
Salon.com
January 26, 2001
Dawn MacKeen |
Overwhelming evidence of global warming Experts hope a startling new report will be enough to persuade President Bush to take action... |
Chemistry World
February 12, 2010
Ned Stafford |
Belief in climate change plunges Recent polls suggest the public in the UK and US are becoming increasingly sceptical about climate change. |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Hamilton & Fay |
A Changing Climate for Development Climate finance can provide the resources developing countries need to mitigate and adapt |
Geotimes
August 2005
Megan Sever |
Marshes Record Climate Changes Research coming out of a marsh near the mouth of the Hudson is now providing insight into how the ecosystem has evolved, based on a core that dates back 1,350 years, and could help planners better manage the system in the future. |
Outside
July 2007
Symmes & Williams |
The Gods of War They stared combat in the face and lived to enlighten us, 2,500 years apart. Two books detail the lives of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski and Australian paleontologist Tim Flannery. |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Bjorn Lomborg |
Technology, Not Talks, Will Save the Planet There are smarter alternatives to fighting climate change than cutting CO 2 emissions. |
Chemistry World
October 9, 2013
Angeli Mehta |
Australian climate body saved by crowd sourced donations Backing from the Australian public has helped resurrect a body set up to provide independent information on climate change to government and citizens. |
Scientific American
October 2006
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Fiddling While the Planet Burns Will the Wall Street Journal's editorial writers accept a challenge to learn the truth about the science of global climate change? |
Finance & Development
March 2008
Mohan Munasinghe |
Rising Temperatures, Rising Risks Global warming is already taking its toll internationally. Making development more sustainable will help address climate change. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 15, 2014
Carmen Nobel |
Calderon: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change Former President of Mexico Felipe Calderon says the United States Congress and Chinese coal plants are the biggest obstacles to fixing climate change. |
Salon.com
March 7, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
"Jurassic Park," eat your heart out Ecological historian Tim Flannery describes the days of megafauna, when 13-ton elephants and shoulder-height armadillos clomped around among humans... |
