Climate Science can Weather a Winter Storm

News of the Great Winter Storm of 2011 arrived a day early. It was going to be bad, forecasters said. The entire Midwest and much of the Northeast was going to be hit with wind and snow, but the real story was Chicago. Chicago was to be Ground Zero for the end of the...

Climate Change is Here to Stay

Find that oil To run my yacht; And fuel my A/C When it’s hot. It wasn’t long ago that climate change was all the rage. Newspaper headlines were touting the Kyoto Protocol. Scientists and citizens alike were discussing Al Gore’s documentary An...

A Climate-Friendly Farm Bill

We’re in a rut when it comes to taking action on climate change. Congress has stalled on passing climate legislation. International negotiators failed to agree on binding emission cuts in Cancun late last year. And it’s unclear whether the EPA will have...

Our Slow-Motion Global Accident

Have you ever found yourself in the midst of a disaster–like taking a bend in the road too fast on a rainy night–where every second seems impossibly stretched? The situation unfolds in slow motion. You know exactly how it turns out, even before your car...