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Global Warming: An Exclusive Look at James Hansen’s Scary New Math
How can NASA physicist and climatologist James E. Hansen, writing in the New York Times today, “say with high confidence” that recent heat waves in Texas and ...
Billboard Likening Global Warming Believers to Unabomber is Pulled
It was a bold move — though bold may be too kind a word — to equate those who believe in global warming with Ted Kaczynski, otherwise known as the Unabomber. But...
“I suspect that over the next six months, this is going to be a debate that will become part of the campaign, and I will be very clear in voicing my belief that we’re going to have to take further steps to deal with climate change in a serious way.”
U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, speaking to Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner in a new interview. Obama went on to defend his nuanced positions on the Keystone XL...
The Weekend of 100 Tornadoes: Are Killer Storms Being Fueled by Climate Change?
It could have been so much worse. Over 100 tornadoes ripped through several Plains states in just 24 hours over the weekend. Cars were tossed through the air and...
Why Human Activity Can Make Discerning the Impacts of Climate Change So Difficult
A simplified version of the scientific method goes like this: ask a question, make a hypothesis, test the hypothesis in a controlled experiment, analyze results,...
Photo Essays
Himalayan Glaciers Under Threat
Climate change at the top of the world imperils Asia's water supply Photographs by Bharat Sikka for TIME
Global Warming Threatens Penguins
How rising temperatures and melting ice have affected the habitats of five species of the swimming birds
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The World Energy Technologies Summit
The summit will explore the role and influence of emerging energy technologies on climate change, on business, on infrastructure and, of course, on the...
Top 10 Endangered Exports
Global leaders gather in Copenhagen on Dec. 7 to discuss a new international agreement on climate change. A hotter globe will have a profound effect on how we...
Articles from Around the Web
Most mammals won't flee climate change fast enough
As the climate changes over the next century, the ranges of nearly 90 percent of mammal species will shrink -- in many cases because animals wo not be able to get to areas where...
Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse Recorded In Octopus DNA
But these retiring creatures offer a rare opportunity to help understand how this extreme part of the Earth has changed in recent geologic times and what climate change might...
Evolution and Climate Change Must Be Taught in Schools, Say States
CREDIT: Martin Cron, via Flikr One day after new test results showed that only 32 percent of U.S. 8 th graders are proficient in science, a group of 26 states has helped draft a...
Corporate giants caught in middle of climate clash
Some corporate giants are caught in the middle of a battle between a think tank skeptical of manmade global warming and an environmental group that it is trying to undermine its...
