Yet another factor enters into the world food picture - a new and ominous phenomenon. The climate of the world seems to be changing; it may, say our best scientists, be warming up. This slight, almost imperceptible, but relentless warming of the past ten years...
global warming
See Loomis.
Jon Chait has an interesting piece in TNR on the sclerotic condition of contemporary conservative free market dogma, as it tries to parry the Obama administration's response to the financial.
...and if this is what a temporary solution to global warming is supposed to look like, my pessimism about the future of everything will earn another wry moment of vindication.Two approaches hold the most promise: injecting tons of sulfates—essentially solid particles of sulfur dioxide—into the...
Did this month-old MIT study get much attention when it was released? I don't recall hearing anything about it, and given that it more or less predicts The End of.