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Geotimes May 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Ralph Cicerone: Chemistry, Baseball and Politics The head of the National Academy of Sciences has completed his first year as as the head of an institution that is a major scientific voice in Washington, D.C., with a global impact. |
Popular Mechanics February 20, 2010 Tyghe Trimble |
Do Climate Scientists Need to Be More Transparent? Scientists at AAAS 2010 talk about the need for better transparency in science, particularly for climate research. Here is what they have to say. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 William Sweet |
Climate Emergency If you're still not convinced that global warming is the most urgent and important problem facing the world today, see Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim, or if you just can't stand the man, read his book. |
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 |
2012 Holiday Lectures on Science -- Changing Planet: Past, Present, Future In HHMI's 2012 Holiday Lectures on Science, three leading scientists will explore the history of life on Earth and the forces that have shaped, and will continue to shape, our ever-changing planet. |
Outside July 2007 Amanda Griscom Little |
Brain Storm It's not nice to fool Mother Nature, but as the mercury rises, a crop of weather-changing scientists want to try. |
Wired February 25, 2008 Peter Schwartz |
Humans Have Been Changing the Climate for Eons. That's Reason for Hope. Our epoch needs a new name. Scientists like Anthropocene to represent the era when people started messing up nature. |
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. |
Chemistry World October 21, 2013 Philip Ball |
Chemistry's climate of scepticism It could be important for chemists to consider whether (and if so, why) there is an unusually high proportion of climate-change doubters in their ranks. |
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 February 2010 Erik Sofge |
How 4 Climate Control Plans Could Crash and Burn The term geo-engineering -- direct technological interventions to reshape the planet -- calls to mind the dark laughter of a science-fiction villain. |
Geotimes January 2007 Edward Derbyshire |
International Collaboration in Global Science: Price or Prize? The UN triennium 2007 - 2009 International Year of Planet Earth aims to contribute to the improvement of everyday life, especially in less-developed countries, and by promoting the societal potential of the world's earth scientists. |
Science News January 5, 2008 |
Science Safari: Focus on Our Planet The United Nations website to show communities how they can promote sustainable use of Earth's resources. |
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core. |
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. |
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 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. |
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. |
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 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. |
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. |
InternetNews November 10, 2008 David Needle |
Al Gore Weighs in on Web 2.0 Former Vice President Al Gore says the Web should be used to help save the Earth. |
AskMen.com |
Earth-Like Planet Found Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there's a firm place to stand -- if only it weren't so broiling hot. |