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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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics March 11, 2008 Jennifer Bogo |
Report Sees Dire Future for Warming's Impact on U.S. Transport Changing water levels and warmer temperatures will necessitate major adaptations from transportation officials if the United States wants to protect its systems of travel by air, land and sea. |
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. |
Smithsonian October 2006 Anne Bolen |
Life in the Field - Frozen in Time Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest have recorded hundreds of years of climate history, helping researchers plot how quickly the planet is warming. |
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. |
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. |
Finance & Development March 1, 2002 Peter S. Heller & Muthukumara Mani |
Adapting to Climate Change Not much talked about but still worrisome are the economic and fiscal disruptions likely to be caused by global climate change, especially for developing countries. Policymakers should take steps to minimize these disruptions, and sooner rather than later... |
Reason October 2005 Sallie Baliunas |
Full of Hot Air Book review: A climate alarmist takes on "criminals against humanity" in Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do to Avert the Disaster, by Ross Gelbspan. |
Geotimes December 2005 Kevin E. Trenberth |
A Warming World Climate change is with us; we cannot stop it, although we can slow it down. It behooves us therefore to track how and why the climate is changing. |
Reason November 2008 |
Letters Letters to the Editor: Carbon: tax, trade, or deregulate?... |
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. |
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. |
Salon.com October 23, 2001 Suzy Hansen |
Stormy weather Floods, droughts, hurricanes and disease outbreaks -- an expert explains why climate changes give us yet another reason to find terror in the skies... |
National Defense August 2008 Stew Magnuson |
Climate Change Fears Spill Over To The Defense Community Politicians and environmentalists who want to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions pumped into the atmosphere are using this argument to woo conservative skeptics to their side in the ongoing energy/global warming debate. |
BusinessWeek December 9, 2010 Efstathiou & Chipman |
As Temperatures Rise, Business Adapts With no deal on carbon emissions expected from Cancun, companies are looking to profit from global warming. |
Geotimes October 2004 |
The Geoscience Vote Slippery Slope for Drilling in Alaska... Managing Federal Lands... The Evolving Debate Over Teaching Evolution... Funding and the Fate of NASA... Climate Tipping Point... etc. |
Scientific American December 2006 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
The Challenge of Sustainable Water Water supplies around the world are already severely stressed. Population growth and global warming will only worsen those problems |
Geotimes April 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Wallace Broecker: Changes in the Atmosphere An interview with an expert on issues of climate change about his experiences advising politicians about the consequences of climate change and his hopes for new technologies of carbon sequestration. |
Popular Mechanics February 2007 Jeff Wise |
Building Canada's Epic Ice Road The truckers who haul 70-ton rigs hundreds of miles across Canada's frozen lakes aren't afraid of much except warm weather. |
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. |
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. |
Geotimes October 2007 Moran & Backman |
The Arctic Ocean: So Much We Still Don't Know In 2004, the Arctic Coring Expedition team took three ships to the Arctic to drill a core near the Lomonosov Ridge. The team's results are teaching us more than we ever knew about the past 65 million years in the Arctic. |
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... |
Finance & Development December 2009 Hamilton & Fay |
A Changing Climate for Development Climate finance can provide the resources developing countries need to mitigate and adapt |
Scientific American July 2008 Peter Brown |
NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict. |
Finance & Development March 2008 William R. Cline |
Global Warming and Agriculture If steps are not taken to curb carbon emissions, agricultural productivity could fall dramatically, especially in developing countries. |
Geotimes September 2007 Nicole Branan |
Strange Bedfellows? Evangelicals and Scientists Join Forces on Climate Global warming is melting permafrost around the world, but earlier this year rising temperatures also led to the thawing of the notoriously frosty relations between scientists and evangelical Christians, triggering climate change of the political kind. |
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. |
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. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2007 Richard Vodra |
Inconvenient Truths The economic effects of climate change and oil shortages present a unique challenge for financial planners. |
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. |
Smithsonian August 2005 Laura Helmuth |
Phenomena and Curiosities: Baked Alaska A unique study documents the disappearance of Alaska's glaciers, blamed on global warming. |
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. |
Geotimes January 2006 Megan Sever |
Warming Linked to Disease Outbreaks With the average global temperatures predicted to rise between 1.4 and 5.8 degrees Celsius by 2100, climate scientists, physicians and others are warning of a possible increase in heat-related deaths and disease outbreaks. |
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. |
National Defense August 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
Oil Wars and Climate Woes: Two Sides of the Same Coin If rising waters and violent storms whipped into oblivion a key U.S. military base on the island of Diego Garcia, would such a catastrophe qualify as a national security crisis or as a climate change scourge? |
Geotimes February 2005 Megan Sever |
Bugging Out with Warmer Weather If Earth continues to warm, especially in northern latitudes, insect outbreaks are more likely to occur, and potentially harm forests and affect the planet's carbon cycle. |
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 |
Salon.com November 17, 2000 Dawn MacKeen |
U.S. clash on global warming A new Department of Energy report undermines the position of U.S. negotiators at a U.N. conference on reducing greenhouse gases... |
Geotimes August 2006 Megan Sever |
From Hot to Cold in the Arctic For the first time, scientists have recovered direct evidence of what life in the Arctic has been like for the past 56 million years. A new 400-meter-long sediment core is revealing that all in the Arctic has not always been as it seems. |
Geotimes April 2003 Greg Peterson |
El Nino's future While forecasters can now predict El Nino events up to a year before they reach their peak, the impacts of long-term climate change on El Nino remain difficult to pin down. |
Geotimes October 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Greenhouse Gases Revisited Scientists say now that a new method of tracking the effects of greenhouse gases could lead to a more accurate understanding of their impact on climate change, which other scientists say the Arctic is already experiencing on a dramatic scale. |
Finance & Development March 2008 Natalia Tamirisa |
Climate Change and the Economy Policies to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases need not hobble the economy. |
Reason April 2004 Ronald Bailey |
Why Warming? The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims to have found "new and stronger evidence that most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities. |
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 September 2005 Sara Pratt |
Shrinking and Growing Arctic Lakes Now, in the latest addition to the growing body of evidence that global warming is significantly affecting the Arctic, two recent studies suggest that thawing permafrost is the cause of two seemingly contradictory observations -- both rapidly growing and rapidly shrinking lakes. |
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 |
Salon.com March 2, 2001 Dawn MacKeen |
Global warning Species from birds to butterflies are doing strange things, and a new report blames the behavior on the Earth's rising temperature... |
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. |