The political method has not worked so well. In fact it’s lurching toward something between abject and embarrassing failure. Let’s try something else.
I didn’t make the trip to Thailand for the pre-Copenhagen negotiating session last week, and I’m glad I didn’t. For one thing, the weather was doing its best to remind delegates what global [...]

Arctic Land And Seas Account For Up To 25 Percent Of World’s Carbon Sink
In a new study in the journal Ecological Monographs, ecologists estimate that Arctic lands and oceans are responsible for up to 25 percent of the global net sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Under current predictions of global warming, this Arctic sink could [...]

ABOVE ANTARCTICA — Hoping to better understand how a melting Antarctica could swamp the planet, a NASA plane outfitted with lasers and ground-penetrating radar made its first flight over the icy continent on Friday.
The DC-8 left Punta Arenas, Chile, on a mission to fly as low as 1,000 feet (300 meters) over Antarctica. Like the [...]