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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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
Reason November 2008 |
Letters Letters to the Editor: Carbon: tax, trade, or deregulate?... |
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. |
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 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... |
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. |
HBS Working Knowledge May 11, 2015 Dina Gerdeman |
A Road Map to Fix America's Transportation Infrastructure Rosabeth Moss Kanter offers a road map to roadway recovery in her new book, Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead. |
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 |
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 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. |
Reactive Reports Issue 37 David Bradley |
Shipping News International shipping may be one of the largest sources of air pollutants along the Norwegian coast and in the Northern Atlantic. |
Scientific American June 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Climate Change Refugees As global warming tightens the availability of water, prepare for a torrent of forced migrations. Economists, hydrologists, agronomists and climatologists will have to join forces to take the next steps in scientific understanding of this human crisis. |
Boating March 2007 Lenny Rudow |
How I Learned to Stop Worrying... Those of us who were slow to put our boats away last fall enjoyed the longest boating season the East Coast has ever seen. Okay, so things are heating up. What does that mean to us as boaters? |
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 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. |
IndustryWeek March 14, 2012 David Blanchard |
Intermodal Transportation Strategies Offer Manufacturers a Greener Way of Doing Business Manufacturers are realigning their transportation networks to reduce both their costs and their carbon footprints. |
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. |
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. |
National Defense August 2008 Matthew Rusling |
Coast Guard Unprepared for Climate Change in Arctic The Coast Guard's fleet of only two working icebreakers is not suited to deal with the rapidly changing shifts in a region of rising importance. |
CFO September 1, 2006 John Goff |
Delayed in the USA Infrastructure woes aren't just a Third-World problem, they also pose a major "last-mile" headache for American businesses from coast to coast. |
Geotimes May 2007 Jessica F. Larsen |
A Comment on... Volcanoes in a Changing Global Climate It is highly speculative at present to predict how global climate change will transform the science of volcanology. Yet it is important that we begin to anticipate how the impacts of volcanoes will change, as population and precipitation patterns adjust to climate change during the 21st century. |
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. |
Outside February 2004 Natasha Singer |
Break On Through The dream of a Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic to the riches of Asia has driven explorers and visionary adventurers for centuries. With climate change in the air, The author braves the frigid 900-mile journey to find out if the old, mythic dream is becoming an epic new reality. |
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 November 2005 John A. Kelmelis |
The Geosciences and Future Foreign Policy The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Department of State have paired up in a project to identify emerging earth science findings that are both reliable and have foreign policy implications. |
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? |
Finance & Development December 2009 Hamilton & Fay |
A Changing Climate for Development Climate finance can provide the resources developing countries need to mitigate and adapt |
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 June 2006 Michael Glantz |
Global Warming: Whose Problem is it Anyway? Global warming is not a hoax. It actually happens naturally. Industrialization processes in rich countries and now in developing ones are abetting the naturally occurring greenhouse effect. |
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. |
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... |
Popular Mechanics May 2008 Erik Sofge |
Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix U.S. Infrastructure American infrastructure is in trouble, from collapsed bridges to leaking dams. Here are some fresh ideas, smart engineering and new technology that can be used to fix it. |
Geotimes October 2007 Josh Trapani |
Energy Independence and Climate Change: Linked but Separate Achieving increased energy independence and mitigating climate change impacts are complex but vital issues. |
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 March 2006 Powell et al. |
Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales. |
The Motley Fool September 7, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson |
In the Wake of Katrina: Transporters What does the damage from Hurricane Katrina spell for those whose business is moving energy around the world? Most good companies are prepared and able to work around the disruptions. Don't let stories about the magnitude of the damage sway your investing philosophy too much. |
Popular Mechanics February 17, 2010 Chris Sweeney |
The World's 18 Strangest Airports Locations around the world with less than ideal conditions for landing a plane. |
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 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. |
IndustryWeek March 1, 2008 David Blanchard |
A Taxing Solution to the Transportation Problem Updating the highways and surface transportation could cost $225 billion and take 50 years. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Robert Gall & David Parsons |
It's Hurricane Season: Do You Know Where Your Storm is? Souped-up satellites, supercomputers, and superior science might soon mean you really can trust the weather report. |
Popular Mechanics April 2007 Margo Pfeiff |
Voyage to the Top of the Earth (Almost) To reach the High Arctic, a Canadian coast guard icebreaker needs 17,000 horsepower, six diesel/electric engines and one slippery coat of paint. |
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. |