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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.   |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
March 25, 2010
Eric Roston |
Engineering the Earth Jeff Goodell sizes up the silver-bullet technologies that may be needed to combat rising planetary temperatures in his new book, "How to Cool the Planet" |
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. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2010
Paul McFedries |
Technically Speaking: Hacking the Planet There's plenty of controversy swirling around the idea of climate intervention -- and no shortage of new words |
Wired
February 25, 2008
Peter Schwartz |
Humans Have Been Changing the Climate for Eons. That's Reason for Hope. Our epoch needs a new name. Scientists like Anthropocene to represent the era when people started messing up nature. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Erik Sofge |
How 4 Climate Control Plans Could Crash and Burn The term geo-engineering -- direct technological interventions to reshape the planet -- calls to mind the dark laughter of a science-fiction villain. |
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
February 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Trees Confound Global Warming The potential canceling-out effects of trees' low reflectivity for carbon sequestration raise questions as to whether tree planters should get carbon credits in North America, as outlined in the Kyoto Protocol. |
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. |
Reason
November 2008 |
Letters Letters to the Editor: Carbon: tax, trade, or deregulate?... |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2008
Monica Heger |
Q&A With: Ecologist and Geoengineering Expert Philip Boyd Ecologist Philip Boyd says we need to figure out the benefits and risks of geoengineering now |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2008
Stoss & Stoss |
Heating Up for Global Warming Research and Policy The critical actions in combating global warming call for individuals, neighborhoods, communities, and geopolitical entities to implement a concept of global warming ICE. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Chemistry World
July 21, 2009
Anna Lewcock |
Degrees of freedom The global nature of the climate change offers both opportunities and challenges. The US, for example, is keen to establish international cooperation and collaboration in climate change research |
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. |
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 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
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. |
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... |
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
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. |
Industrial Physicist
Aug/Sep 2004
Forest, Webster & Reilly |
Narrowing uncertainty in global climate change Unknowns hamper the initiation of climate-mitigation policies. |
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. |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Bjorn Lomborg |
Technology, Not Talks, Will Save the Planet There are smarter alternatives to fighting climate change than cutting CO 2 emissions. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Emily Masamitsu |
4 Geoengineering Attack Plans to Fight Climate Change As the war on global warming heats up, some scientists argue that meddling with the environment might be the only way to save it. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
Paul McFedries |
Changing Climate, Changing Language That humans are having a negative effect on the world's climate is almost universally regarded as a fact in scientific circles, but global warming stubbornly remains in the realm of fantasy in some political and business circles. |
Wired
December 2006
Pearson et al. |
Zero G, First Class See the soaring skylines of 2012... Is collective intelligence really more intelligent?... Podcasts 101: The best university lectures... Block a wiretap... On a scale of 1 to 4, you're totally dead... bacterial micromachines pull their weight... etc. |
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. |
Chemistry World
October 21, 2013
Philip Ball |
Chemistry's climate of scepticism It could be important for chemists to consider whether (and if so, why) there is an unusually high proportion of climate-change doubters in their ranks. |
Chemistry World
July 27, 2012
Phillip Broadwith |
Storm on the horizon for ozone levels Summer storms can inject water vapor high into the atmosphere and trigger processes that degrade the ozone layer, say US chemists. |
Chemistry World
April 19, 2009
Sarah Houlton |
Lead-lined clouds Lead in the atmosphere has a direct effect on how clouds form, according to research by an international team of scientists. |
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. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Peter S. Heller & Muthukumara Mani |
Adapting to Climate Change Not much talked about but still worrisome are the economic and fiscal disruptions likely to be caused by global climate change, especially for developing countries. Policymakers should take steps to minimize these disruptions, and sooner rather than later... |
Geotimes
December 2004
Sara Pratt |
Acidic Waters Threaten Sea Life High acidity in the world's oceans may be threatening coral populations, such as those in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. |
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. |
Wired
May 19, 2008 |
Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green It's high time for green causes to unite around the urgent need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Hamilton & Fay |
A Changing Climate for Development Climate finance can provide the resources developing countries need to mitigate and adapt |
Lucire
June 12, 2015 |
Women must be at the forefront of climate change solutions Susi Newborn gives a warning that our planet is facing a critical danger, and women are on the frontline |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
G. Pascal Zachary |
Why Engineers Must Try to Save the World Scientists also should heed the messianic impulse |
Geotimes
April 2007
Semans & de Fontaine |
Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: The Business World Looks at Climate Change Increasing momentum at the state and federal levels, along with the business community, is proof that we are now in the design phase for climate change legislation, and companies clearly expect regulations soon. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 6, 2012
Toffel & Schendler |
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail Many companies receiving high marks in environmental sustainability are hurting the planet in other ways. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2007
Richard Vodra |
Inconvenient Truths The economic effects of climate change and oil shortages present a unique challenge for financial planners. |
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
April 2007
Mark Peplow |
Editorial: Swindled? The bottom line is that just a few degrees increase in global average temperatures is likely to have a severe impact on human life. The silver lining of anthropogenic climate change is that, being man-made, at least we stand a chance of doing something about it. |
