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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.
IEEE Spectrum September 2012 Prachi Patel	Predicting the Future of Drought Prediction Better instruments and models could help scientists forecast droughts years in advance
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 August 2003 Greg Peterson	Hubbard Brook: Making Watershed Links The wollastonite addition at Hubbard Brook is the latest chapter in a rich history of large scale manipulations aimed at understanding how human disturbances impact forests.
Geotimes July 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker	Watching the planet green A new generation of satellites is allowing scientists to, every week, watch the grass grow, literally. Combining data of vegetation density with digital data of global weather observations, they can see Earth's metabolism -- the rate at which plants are absorbing carbon out of the atmosphere.
Chemistry World May 14, 2013 Emma Stoye	Scientists to crowdsource power plant data US researchers at Arizona State University are enlisting the help of citizen scientists to map carbon dioxide emissions from power plants around the world.
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 November 2003 Naomi Lubick	Biosphere 2 bubble burst Next month, Columbia University will relinquish its ties to Biosphere 2. The glass bubble in Oracle, Ariz., was once a visionary Earth atmosphere with eight "terranauts" living inside its confines.
Chemistry World January 23, 2013	Chemical climate proxies With the climate change debate as heated as ever, how do scientists reconstruct what the weather was like in the past? Jon Evans looks at the detective chemistry behind such environmental forensic work
Science News August 4, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer	Math Trek: Cloudy Crystal Balls Computer models may never be able to predict climate accurately.
Geotimes August 2005 Megan Sever	Marshes Record Climate Changes Research coming out of a marsh near the mouth of the Hudson is now providing insight into how the ecosystem has evolved, based on a core that dates back 1,350 years, and could help planners better manage the system in the future.
Geotimes October 2005 Megan Sever	Carbon's Complicated River Ride Researchers recently found that carbon moves from the atmosphere, through trees, soil and water, and back into the atmosphere in fewer than five years, indicating that the landscape is not providing as much long-term storage of carbon dioxide as hoped.
Geotimes September 2004 Megan Sever	Slower Cooling in Oregon New research suggests that the climate in Oregon slowly cooled over 6 million years as a result of evolving grasslands pulling carbon dioxide out of the air and locking the carbon into the soil.
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 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.
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2004 Forest, Webster & Reilly	Narrowing uncertainty in global climate change Unknowns hamper the initiation of climate-mitigation policies.
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 February 2009 Grace V. Jean	Getting to the Bottom of Global Warming -- From Space The first of several satellites designed to monitor Earth's greenhouse gases has reached orbit and will begin collecting data in the coming months.
Science News September 29, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer	Math Trek: Beating the Bush for Patterns Landscapes lacking a fractal vegetation pattern may be vulnerable to desertification.
Geotimes April 2006 Megan Sever	Pakistan's Wetter Weather Linked to Global Warming New data from millennium-long tree-ring analyses are indicating that mountains in northern Pakistan have grown significantly wetter over the past century than they have been over the last millennium -- quite possibly due to human-induced global warming, the researchers say.
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.
Popular Mechanics December 20, 2007 Alex Hutchinson	Satellite to Measure Rain From Space, Outsmart Your Weatherman Rain precipitation is difficult to predict, so scientists are using satellites to improve predictions.
Smithsonian March 2004 Lawrence M. Small	From the Secretary - World View Panama offers an ideal vantage point for scientists to see the big picture of life on earth. The forests and coral reefs of the tropics are the world's most biologically diverse ecosystems.
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.
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.
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.
Chemistry World August 8, 2013 James Urquhart	Wealth of undiscovered volatiles found drifting above orange groves Scientists have measured the exchange of hundreds of volatile organic compounds in the air above an orange grove in California and the ecosystem below. The finding could have implications for climate and air pollution models
Geotimes December 2004 Naomi Lubick	Corroding Pipe Organs Extreme Storms as Climate Warms Hurricanes, typhoons and drought. Aspects of these extreme weather conditions may be related to global climate change, some scientists say.
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.
Geotimes December 2006 Fred Schwab	Why Fester? Let's Sequester! Instead of looking toward another fossil fuel-based energy choice, scientists need to examine carbon dioxide sequestering, the capture and storage technology that removes anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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.
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.
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 April 2004 Tim Palucka	A Climate of Your Own The largest climate modeling experiment ever devised is running on borrowed time, literally. The model is taking computing time on loan from more than 47,000 personal computers worldwide, with the full knowledge and consent of their owners.
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.
Science News May 9, 2009	Science Past From The Issue Of May 9, 1959 Scientists predict 25% increase in carbon dioxide by the year 2000.
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.
Scientific American March 2009 David Appell	Can "Assisted Migration" Save Species from Global Warming? As the world warms up, some species cannot move to cooler climes in time to survive. Camille Parmesan thinks humans should help even if it means creating invasive species
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.
Chemistry World August 2006 Mark Peplow	Editorial: Action Please, Not Reviews of Reviews Whether developing new materials for fuel cells, or contributing to the Council for Science and Technology's nano-review, chemists' voices in the UK must be heard by policy-makers. Given the current pause for further thought, now is the perfect time to chip in.
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.
Popular Mechanics November 3, 2008 Andrew Moseman	How Geoengineering Works: 5 Big Plans to Stop Global Warming Some scientists believe that now is the time to research such proposals so that in 10 or 20 years, should governments fail to act, scientists have them at the ready.
Popular Mechanics June 12, 2009 Jerry Beilinson	Climate Change Solutions: Live From World Science Festival 2009 The roundtable session, called "Carbon Conundrum," took place in front of an audience of about 150 on day two of the World Science Festival.
Geotimes December 2003 Sara Pratt	Cool Cambrian triggers life A controversial hypothesis put forth by a team of German researchers says the Cambrian explosion -- the momentous increase in biodiversity 542 million years ago that spawned most modern animal groups -- was caused by life itself.
Chemistry World May 4, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Cutting the Cost of Climate Change Scientists have welcomed a UN climate change report released on Friday that sets out a range of affordable options for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2004	Letters Reader feedback on Global warming... Spinning spheres... Hydrogen overflow... etc.
Smithsonian April 2007 Jen Phillips	Species Explosion What happens when you mix evolution with climate change?
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.
Chemistry World October 22, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Free legal help for embattled US scientists A pro bono network that will provide legal protection for US scientists in government and academia has been launched by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an environmental group based in Washington, DC.