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Climate Change Has Helped Bring Down Cultures

Humanity has weathered many a climate change, from the ice age of 80,000 years ago to the droughts of the late 19th century that helped [...]

Scientific American (David Biello | January 30, 2012)

A dangerous shift in Obama’s ‘climate change’ rhetoric

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A dangerous shift in Obama’s ‘climate change’ rhetoric
By Maxwell T. Boykoff, Friday, January 27, 12:29 PM
What happened to “climate change” and “global [...]

Maxwell T. Boykoff (The Washington Post | January 27, 2012)

It’s Climate Change, Stupid

I watched the two Republican presidential candidate debates in South Carolina last week, and although the contenders spent quite a bit of time bickering over [...]

Elliot Negin (The Huffington Post | January 23, 2012)

Weaker sun will not delay global warming: study

A weaker sun over the next 90 years is not likely to significantly delay a rise in global temperature caused by greenhouse gases, a report [...]

Nina Chestney (Reuters | January 23, 2012)

U.S. drafts climate change road map

The U.S. government has published its first draft of a national strategy that provides a road map for authorities responding to climate change.
U.S. Interior Department [...]

Staff Writer (UPI | January 20, 2012)

Climate Change Causes Heated Battles For Science Teachers

Prior to taking Mr. Visco’s high school science class, Keith Hogan did not believe humans had had any hand in climate change.
“I thought the media [...]

Lynne Peeples (The Huffington Post | January 20, 2012)

The New Science Classroom Battleground: Climate Change

The National Center for Science Education has been defending the teaching of evolution since before Edwards vs. Aguillard, the 1987 Supreme Court decision that declared [...]

John Timmer (Wired | January 17, 2012)

Climate Change Ripples Through Mountain Ecosystems

Like dominoes given one nudge, climate change in the form of reduced winter snowfall on mountaintops has subtle but powerful cascading effects felt throughout entire [...]

Jospeh Castro (LiveScience | January 17, 2012)

Scientists Say Cut Soot, Methane to Curb Warming

An international team of scientists says it’s figured out how to slow global warming in the short run and prevent millions of deaths from dirty [...]

Seth Borenstein (AP | January 13, 2012)

2012’s Not-Quite Hopeless U.S. Climate Policy

Some of my climate scientist colleagues at Columbia University’s Earth Institute are frustrated about the inability of the U.S. Congress to enact new legislation on [...]

Steven Cohen (The Huffington Post | January 9, 2012)