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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.
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.
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Sandra Upson	U.S. Earth-Sensing Satellites Left Out In the Cold The degree of precision needed to forecast hurricanes, and the future accuracy of climate modeling as well, may be in danger if recent trends in Earth-observing satellite programs persist.
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 June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Climate Change: What Should the Pentagon Do? Among the topics that are being debated in the Quadrennial Defense Review is the impact of climate change on U.S. national security.
T.H.E. Journal November 9, 2009 Scott Aronowitz	NASA Grant To Fund Online Professional Development for Climate Change Education PBS Teacherline has announced it has received a NASA Global Climate Change Education Grant to provide professional development courses and teaching resources to encourage the teaching of climate change topics in conjunction with science, technology, engineering, and math education.
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.
Science News August 4, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer	Math Trek: Cloudy Crystal Balls Computer models may never be able to predict climate accurately.
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.
Popular Mechanics October 1, 2008 Andrew Moseman	Newest Arctic Melt Record Leaves Scientists Scratching Heads There's good news and bad news when it comes to the amount of ice in the Arctic.
Financial Advisor December 2010 Jerilyn Klein Bier	Partly Cloudy The global investment community reacts to U.S. legislative uncertainty On Climate Change.
BusinessWeek March 27, 2006 Adam Aston	No Climate For Inaction Two new books talk about why it's time to tackle global warming.
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 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.
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.
Scientific American April 2007 David Biello	Conservative Climate The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's consensus document may understate the climate change problem.
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.
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 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 December 2005 Naomi Lubick	Global Climate Affects Storms? Experts caution that drawing a direct link between climate change and hurricane behavior is not yet possible, and that the El Nino-Southern Oscillation may have more of an impact on storm intensity and occurrence.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Geotimes November 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Salting a Stagnant Ocean In its Third Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change flagged the potential sudden collapse of the thermohaline circulation in the Atlantic, which warms Europe to its current habitable climate, as a significant source of concern.
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 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.
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.
Geotimes February 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Past El Ninos Portend Future Climates A new study examining evidence of long-term variability at El Nino's source suggests the strength of the phenomenon is highly sensitive to even small changes in climate. That sensitivity could have implications for how it plays into future climate change.
Geotimes November 2003 Sara Pratt	Stuck between a rock and a cold place A stalagmite mined from an island cave in the Indian Ocean suggests that the ages currently assigned to the gold standard of ancient climate records -- the Greenland ice cores -- need revision for the period between 55,000 and 42,000 years ago.
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.
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.
The Motley Fool September 2, 2011 Alyce Lomax	Your Fiscal Forecast: Another Brewing Crisis Are insurers ignoring the long-term risks of climate change?
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 March 2010 Robert F. Keane	SEC Issues Guidance on Climate Change Disclosure The SEC has decided to provide public companies with interpretive guidance on existing SEC disclosure requirements as they apply to business or legal developments relating to the issue of climate change.
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.
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.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2012 Alyce Lomax	Investor Action Thumps Government Washington may be slacking on climate change policy, but private investors are stepping up.
Geotimes August 2007 Megan Sever	Climate Change Will Cost us According to a new report, dealing with the effects of climate change will cost both citizens and businesses, especially insurance companies, but will cost the U.S. government even more -- and before its emergency coffers are bankrupted, the government needs to take action.
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...
Geotimes September 2006 Megan Sever	Hockey Stick Climate Study Faces Scrutiny With one report recently released that criticizes the statistical methods behind the hockey stick climate analysis of the past 1,000 years, and another recent report taking a broader look at all evidence for climate change, Congress is considering how past changes fit into the climate future.
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.
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.
Geotimes November 2007 Nicole Branan	Water Pours Through Pores in Sea Ice Scientists have come up with a new model that describes how water moves through the Arctic sea ice beneath melt ponds, helping them to make better climate predictions.
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.
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.
Science News February 14, 2009 Lonnie Thompson	Receding Glaciers Erase Records Of Climate History Ice masses on the tops of mountains -- sticking out in the free atmosphere -- have been collecting climate data and storing them, in many cases for very long periods.
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.
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 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.