Small Precautions

This graph from the Iowa Futures Market shows how betters are rating the Democrats' versus the Republicans' chances at the White Hou...

The Economist's description of the drought in the Murray-Darling basin (Australia's largest) provides a harbinger of how global warm...

Disturbing:

George Bush pays $275 a pop to get his face made up for public appearances.

Although his data is a bit dated, Caltech chemist Nate Lewis provides a compelling, bottoms-up analysis of the potential of non-carbon energ...

Debra Yang, who as the US Attorney in Los Angeles was leading a corruption probe into the affairs of Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) , resigned last...

In today's Times, my friend Tad Homer-Dixon breaks down the security threat posed by climate change .

John Hagedorn has an important article that explains how the collapse of the social modernist project of development is at the root of toda...

Matt Welch in today's LA Times argues that the United States, in particular the President in his annual April 24 address on "Man...

Malawi is a medium-sized, landlocked country in Southern Africa. It's not the kind of place where the impact of climate change will take...

The GAO says the U.S. government faces at least a $919 billion liability under a worst-case scenario of flood and crop losses due to global...

Global warming is literally going to shorten our days , according to a recent study: As water warms, it expands, causing sea level rise. Fel...

Amazing photo series of a single mom caring for her dying ten year old son . About as anguishing as anything I've ever seen.

Classic Gopnik : Pornography was to British writers of the fifties what the Communist Party was to French writers of the time: they didn’t e...

The Guardian today explains the point of Britain's decision to refer climate change to the U.N. Security Council : The entire point of t...

In referring climate change to the Security Council today, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett cited as a precedent the Security Coun...

Check out this video from 1958 about anthropogenic climate change. Part of a series of educational films produced by Bell Telephone Company ...

The LA Times has an article that is somewhat skeptical about the climate change/security nexus . This skepticism comes in the form of quotes...

WHO on global warming and public health : The health impacts of global climate change will depend not only on the biological consequences of...

The Wilson Center last month sponsored a very interesting discussion about how climate change (and resource scarcity more generally) may cau...