Climate Scientists Hampered in Study of 2011 Extremes – NYTimes.com

At the end of one of the most bizarre weather years in American history, climate research stands at a …

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Climate change: Good news at last? | The Economist

CLIMATE science is famously complicated, but one useful number to keep in mind is “climate sensitivity”. This measures the amount of warming that can eventually be expected to follow a doubling in the

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Here Comes Solar Energy – NYTimes.com

“Our mastery of the material world, on the other hand, has advanced much more slowly. The sources of energy, the way we move stuff around, are much the same as they were a generation ago.

But that may be about to change. We are, or at least we should be, on the cusp of an energy transformation, driven by the rapidly falling cost of solar power. That’s right, …”

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Climate change: The heat is on | The Economist

FOR those who question whether global warming is really happening, it is necessary to believe that the instrumental temperature record is wrong. That is a bit easier than you …

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Climate change: The heat is on | The Economist

FOR those who question whether global warming is really happening, it is necessary to believe that the instrumental temperature record is wrong. That is a bit easier than you …

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