Let’s Try Cap-and-Trade on Babies
Population growth is the real driver for higher greenhouse gas emission, so why don't more mainstream solutions start there?
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War Games Start to Include Climate Change
U.S. military and intelligence officials are factoring the symptoms of climate change into their estimates of where and what kind of conflicts are in store.
Climate Change Gridlock
Emission standards will help manage rising temperatures, but the time to act is now.
Planetary Boundaries? Go Ask the Romans
Scientists propose guardrails for how far mankind can push the planet tomorrow, while others examine how far collapsed civilizations pushed it yesterday.
Buy ‘Climate Change’ — Now With Added Warming Power
Overcoming inertia on climate change is unlikely to take place through the time-honored methods of hectoring and lecturing. Perhaps a little salesmanship and psychology is called for.
Triaging the Train Wreck of Climate Change
Biologist Brian Helmuth has observed firsthand the devastation wrought by climate change, but he's also seen how ecological forecasting can prepare us.
Let’s Just Rejigger the Globe to Cool it Off
Serious scientists are mulling geoengineering — from space sunshades to planetwide aerosols — as reduced-sacrifice methods to address global warming.
Saving Fuel But Melting Ice Faster
Sailing from the Atlantic to the Orient across the roof of the world has been the dream of Arctic explorers and world traders for centuries. It saves fuel, too, so what's not to like? Well ...
Surely Some Flora Out There Can Fuel My Car
While the corn ethanol bubble has pretty much popped, serious efforts to find an economically sound and carbon-smart biological-based fuel continue.
Reality Pricks Corn Ethanol’s Bubble
Cost and carbon have chopped down the high hopes America's Midwest had for growing the nation off climate-changing foreign oil.