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Geotimes December 2006 Megan Sever	Climate Policy -- Wading Into Heated Politics: Q&A with Gerald North An interview with National Academy of Sciences committee chair Gerald North about his experiences examining the hockey stick climate report, testifying about climate change before Congress, and about his thoughts on the climate policy debate.
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?
Geotimes September 2005 Linda Rowan	Congressional Climate: Changing or Chilling? A flurry of discussions and compromises on aspects of the energy bill included a level of activity on climate change that has never been seen before in Congress, including a confrontation in the House on specific science results that has brought scientific peer review to the forefront of the debate.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
Geotimes October 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Error in NASA Climate Data Sparks Debate Due to an error in calculations of mean U.S. temperatures, 1934, not 1998 as previously reported, is the hottest year on record in the United States.
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.
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 January 2006 Kathryn Hansen	2005 Was Warmest Year on Record The record-breaking number of named storms during the 2005 hurricane season may have dominated weather news, but at the same time, another record was in the making: The year now stands as the warmest on record, according to some climatologists.
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.
Geotimes August 2003 Megan Sever	Climate change report reexamined One of the more controversial topics of the Bush administration's revised strategic plan for climate change research is the ongoing debate of how anthropogenic factors factor into global climate change. Discussion at a meeting this week between government scientists and the NAS proved no different.
Geotimes June 2003 Neeta Bijoor	Land use could also affect climate Scientists have traditionally called attention to heat-trapping greenhouse gases as a reason for climate change, commonly known as global warming. A new study adds to evidence that urbanization and other land-use changes may play a comparable role in climate change.
Geotimes July 2004 Sara Pratt	Recalculating the Warming Trend Over the past 15 years climate researchers have observed that while temperatures at the earth's surface have been quickly on the rise, the troposphere has been warming more slowly than expected.
BusinessWeek November 24, 2010 Snyder & Chipman	Global Warming Skeptics Ascend in Congress Cap-and-trade may be just the first casualty of the science-doubters in the House and Senate
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.
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 March 19, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Split opens up on Capitol Hill over science funding Science advocates and researchers that depend on government grants are particularly worried now that Republicans control both chambers of Congress.
AskMen.com	Global Warming: Still On The Earth is still warming, not cooling as some global warming skeptics are claiming, according to an analysis of global temperatures by independent statistics experts.
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.
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.
Geotimes August 2006 Steven Quane	It's Not Hairspray: America's Need for Science Education We are facing real and immediate energy and environmental challenges that require genuine and progressive leadership to solve. Greater public understanding of science and sound scientific processes have the potential to transform our society.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2002	NOAA Paleoclimatology Program In order to avoid future "climate surprises" (abrupt, unexpected climatic changes), the Paleoclimatology Program collects evidence of climate change that has occurred over hundreds and even thousands of years.
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.
AFP eWire January 21, 2008	Congressional Committee Suggests Fundraising Cost Disclosures Several members of Congress are calling for charities to disclose their fundraising costs and how much they spend on programs and services.
Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Sun Fuels Climate Change The recipe for global warming has changed, according to a new statistical analysis of solar output. The sun may be increasing its output and contributing to global warming more than previously thought.
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.
National Defense February 2007 Corrigan & Hickey	Contractors Should Get Ready for Scrutiny Federal contractors must be prepared for the change in political and business climate in Congress. Companies can minimize risks by assessing political dangers and self-assessing ethics and compliance programs.
Reason November 2008	Letters Letters to the Editor: Carbon: tax, trade, or deregulate?...
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.
Geotimes May 2005 Naomi Lubick	Heat Imbalance Portends Problems Results from a new assessment show that Earth is absorbing more energy than it releases into space, with implications for climate change that researchers say point to future warming with consequences for melting ice sheets and sea-level rise.
Fast Company December 1, 2006 Chuck Salter	An Inconvenient Business The Weather Channel's new Web site, One Degree, is a video-laden community devoted to educating visitors about climate change without getting mired in politics.
Geotimes April 2006 Megan Sever	Pakistan's Wetter Weather Linked to Global Warming New data from millennium-long tree-ring analyses are indicating that mountains in northern Pakistan have grown significantly wetter over the past century than they have been over the last millennium -- quite possibly due to human-induced global warming, the researchers say.
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.
Chemistry World May 25, 2010 Rebecca Trager	US scientific body seeks national climate change strategy The US National Research Council is urging its government to act immediately to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and develop a national strategy for adapting to the impacts of global warming.
Geotimes October 2005 Sara Pratt	Revisiting the Satellite Record Global warming skeptics have long pointed to satellite data showing cooling in the tropical atmosphere as evidence that either climate models or measurements of surface warming, or both, are unreliable. New research suggests, however, that it is the analysis of the satellite data that was wrong.
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.
Chemistry World January 4, 2010 Hayley Birch	Copenhagen: after the circus In an agreement forged overnight following fraught negotiations at the end of the Copenhagen climate conference, countries agreed to act to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius.
Geotimes June 2007 Allyson K. Anderson	A Political Comment On... Fire and Ice on Capitol Hill: Climate change and its impacts are being discussed with much fervor in the district these days. Nearly every congressional office has taken up the charge.
Geotimes August 2007 Lynn Persing	Down to Earth with... Gavin Smith and Michael Mann In late 2004, fed up with scientific misinformation in movies such as The Day After Tomorrow, climate scientists Gavin Schmidt of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and Michael Mann of Penn State University in University Park created the blog RealClimate.org.
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 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.
Geotimes April 2007 Semans & de Fontaine	Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: The Business World Looks at Climate Change Increasing momentum at the state and federal levels, along with the business community, is proof that we are now in the design phase for climate change legislation, and companies clearly expect regulations soon.
Scientific American April 2007 David Biello	Conservative Climate The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's consensus document may understate the climate change problem.
Popular Mechanics June 12, 2009 Jerry Beilinson	Climate Change Solutions: Live From World Science Festival 2009 The roundtable session, called "Carbon Conundrum," took place in front of an audience of about 150 on day two of the World Science Festival.
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.
Reason April 2007 Ronald Bailey	Bad Blow Hurricanes and global warming is a hotly debated area with no definitive conclusions.
Scientific American August 2009 David Appell	Stumbling Over Data: Mistakes Fuel Climate-Warming Skeptics Do minor errors erode public support on climate issues?