global climate change

Future Human

Human Cause, Global Effect

Pivotal study affirms that global warming is taking a toll on Earth’s land, sea, and life (and it’s our fault).

Retreating glaciers. Melting permafrost. Off-kilter bird migrations. Few of these reports are news to anyone following the global warming beat. Yet the first effort to gather thousands of scientific findings into a cohesive narrative of cause and effect has been published in the journal Nature.

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State of the Climate

Technology will undoubtedly play a role in resolving our climate crisis, but it can't do it alone

200701232_v012307db0202w772vOn page 13 of the introductory pamphlet “A Brief Guide to Alcoholics Anonymous,” the organization's famous 12 steps begin as such: “We admit we are powerless over alcohol—that our lives have become unmanageable.” Although President Bush maintains that he quit the sauce on his own, without the help of AA, he is evidently familiar with their directives, for on Tuesday night in his State of the Union address, Bush admitted that we have a problem: global warming.

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