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Geotimes January 2006 Naomi Lubick	Volcanoes Slow Sea-Level Rise Researchers find that very large volcanic eruptions affect not only global climate, but also how sea level changes on decadal scales, which could explain previously observed fluctuations in sea-level records.
Geotimes February 2004 Sara Pratt	Volcanic forcing of El Ninos Research has begun to connect large volcanic eruptions with the onset of an El Nino. Now, climatologist Julian B. Adams of the University of Virginia and colleagues report in the Nov. 20 Nature that the events are likely linked in certain cases.
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 April 2004 Ewert & Harpel	In Harm's Way: Population and Volcanic Risk Knowing the number of people potentially at risk from volcanic activity allows non-volcanologists and emergency managers to gauge the potential adverse impact of volcanic unrest and plan accordingly.
Geotimes November 2007 Feldman & Tilling	Danger Lurks Deep: The Human Impact of Volcanoes Volcanic eruptions occur infrequently, yet have the potential to unleash some of the most destructive forces on Earth.
Geotimes March 2007 Nicole Branan	Volcanic Signatures Reveal Climate Clues Besides providing a new tool to look at the climate impact of past volcanic eruptions, a new study also brings atmospheric scientists a step closer to unraveling the chemistry that sulfur aerosols undergo while they are in the stratosphere, which could help improve climate models.
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 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 April 2007 Sally Adee	Rainfall Affected by Climate Change Global climate change will likely cause significant changes in the world's rainfall patterns, according to researchers working on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report summary.
Geotimes September 2004 Naomi Lubick	Measuring Sea-Level Rise As sea level rises, it threatens to flood the low-lying South Pacific islands that make up the 10-square-mile country of Tuvalu, none of which are higher than 4.5 meters above the ocean.
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.
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.
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.
Geotimes May 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Natural Bumps in the Atmosphere Temperatures at Earth's surface have been rising for decades, but in the upper atmosphere, the temperature is slowly dropping. In explaining this change, scientists have focused on human-related causes -- but a new study shows that nature should not be ignored.
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.
Geotimes May 2005 Naomi Lubick	Heat Imbalance Portends Problems Results from a new assessment show that Earth is absorbing more energy than it releases into space, with implications for climate change that researchers say point to future warming with consequences for melting ice sheets and sea-level rise.
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 November 2007 Toulkeridis et al.	When Volcanoes Threaten, Scientists Warn After multiple false alarms of volcanoes erupting, people may start to doubt the credibility of the alarms and not listen to them. Scientists need to better predict and communicate the dangers arising from living in the shadow of volcanoes.
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.
Popular Mechanics June 5, 2008 Bijal Trivedi	Hacking Earth Against Warming, Scientists Favor Fake Volcanoes As the Senate debates a controversial climate-change bill, meteorologists and economists alike say geoengineering solutions aren't so far-out anymore.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 August 2004 Gregory Jones	Making Wine in a Changing Climate History has shown that climate and wine are intricately linked. And many growing regions are either at or nearing their optimum climates for the varieties grown and wine styles produced.
Geotimes May 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Indonesian Volcano Ready to Erupt Spewing hot clouds of gas and bulging with lava, Mount Merapi, one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes, has rumbled to life, and a full-scale eruption is imminent, local officials warn.
Geotimes November 2006 Margaret Putney	Ice Reveals Polar Temperature Seesaw A new ice core from Antarctica directly correlates abrupt changes in Greenland's climate over the last 150,000 years with counterpart changes in Antarctica -- offering further indication that the two icy regions are connected by ocean currents in a sort of bipolar seesaw.
Geotimes September 2006 Carolyn Gramling	China's Massive Dam Alters Weather China's Three Gorges Dam is famed for its size -- and its reservoir may be large enough to change regional weather patterns.
Geotimes July 2005 Naomi Lubick	Monitoring the Most Dangerous U.S. Volcanoes An assessment of the risks and hazards associated with volcanoes has led U.S. researchers to suggest a plan of action for avoiding future disasters, including threats to airplanes and populations living around these features.
Scientific American December 2006 Jeffrey D. Sachs	The Challenge of Sustainable Water Water supplies around the world are already severely stressed. Population growth and global warming will only worsen those problems
Science News August 4, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer	Math Trek: Cloudy Crystal Balls Computer models may never be able to predict climate accurately.
Geotimes May 2004 Megan Sever	Today's Volcano Risks Active volcanoes pose a threat to commercial aircraft, engendering course diversions around potential danger spots.
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...
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.
Investment Advisor June 2009 Robert F. Keane	The Green Advisor: More On Climate Change Climate change can present some healthy investment opportunities for your clients, even if you don't believe it's real.
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.
Geotimes April 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Wallace Broecker: Changes in the Atmosphere An interview with an expert on issues of climate change about his experiences advising politicians about the consequences of climate change and his hopes for new technologies of carbon sequestration.
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2004 Forest, Webster & Reilly	Narrowing uncertainty in global climate change Unknowns hamper the initiation of climate-mitigation policies.
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 February 2005 Naomi Lubick	Virtual Climate Experiment's Results A worldwide global climate experiment that ran on tens of thousands of personal computers across the planet offered the most extreme scenario yet for global warming.
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.
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.
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.
Geotimes June 2003 Neeta Bijoor	Land use could also affect climate Scientists have traditionally called attention to heat-trapping greenhouse gases as a reason for climate change, commonly known as global warming. A new study adds to evidence that urbanization and other land-use changes may play a comparable role in climate change.
Chemistry World January 4, 2010 Hayley Birch	Copenhagen: after the circus In an agreement forged overnight following fraught negotiations at the end of the Copenhagen climate conference, countries agreed to act to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius.
Smithsonian October 2006 Anne Bolen	Life in the Field - Frozen in Time Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest have recorded hundreds of years of climate history, helping researchers plot how quickly the planet is warming.
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.
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.