Spencer Weart on Climate Science and Its Skeptics
Spencer Weart: My most interesting conversations were with historians who have been studying the history of the tobacco companies that did their best, and quite successfully for many years, to cover up the fact that smoking kills people by the million. Some interesting parallels, but… So begins a fascinating interview of Weart on the illegally hacked emails by Capital Weather Gang's

Does Climate Change Cause Armed Conflict?
Not everyone agrees that there is a direct link between climate change and increased conflict, in an academic debate that goes all the way to the top of the United Nations. Does climate change cause conflict? It really depends on who you ask.Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa is the title of a new research paper tabled in the Proceedings of the United States National Academy of Sciences. The report claims that temper

Lancet Study: We Must Reduce Auto Dependency
by Sarah Goodyear Lots of catching up to do after the holiday weekend. Here's a sampling of what's been coming in over the network: Austin on Two Wheels threw a link up on Twitter to a very intriguing article published last week in the influential medical journal The Lancet

The Effects of Climate Change: Stories from Around the World
President Obama and other world leaders will gather in Copenhagen next week to discuss climate change. Though this is a global issue, it’s also a profoundly local one. For this reason, the Op-Ed editors asked writers from four different continents to report on the climate changes they’ve experienced close to home. Here are their dispatches. Here are snippets of the four stories that ran in the NYT this weekend, along with their illustrations:

Major Health Benefits Seen From Reduction of Greenhouse Gases
Slashing carbon dioxide emissions has the added benefit of significantly reducing air pollution and could prevent millions of premature deaths each year, according to a series of studies in the British medical journal, The Lancet. The six studies demonstrate that cutting greenhouse gas emissions will significantly reduce air pollutants such as fine particulate matter — known as black carbon — and g