Forget gold to back up your greenbacks, how about carbon? Should the U.S. and other major emitters follow the E.U.'s lead and establish carbon markets the resulting value transfer will number in the trillions--and may even reach or surpass the scale of the international…

It hasn't taken long for the spread of mosquito-born diseases in a warming climate to reach these United States. Specifically, Texas and specifically Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S.…

When will the American auto industry start importing some of their best practices from abroad? Not that the Japanese and European companies aren't also trying to avoid greenhouse gas emission standards here in the U.S. but at least they have cleaner cars on offer. (The real shame in all this goes to Toyota, fighting regulation and benefiting from it at the same…

200 climate scientists took off their white lab coats and aired their personal views on climate change last night. (Well, they don't actually wear white lab coats but perhaps you see the metaphor I was struggling for lamely...)

The Bali Declaration notes that greenhouse gas emissions need…

You don't have to fly all the way to Bali to participate in some form of climate negotiation, you merely need an avatar and the ability to teleport him, her or it to Second Nature, the Nature journal's archipelago in …

It's time to play name the "son of Kyoto!" Will it be the Bali Breakthrough or, dare I say it, the Copenhagen Consenus (not Lomborg's but some kind of consensus treaty negotiated in that fair city in 2009)?

Who cares? Either is better than the much derided Kyoto Protocol which, I'll grant, has a certain spy thriller appeal but at this point is outpaced…

A mild winter and a cool summer—paired with a switch to burning more natural gas to produce electricity—helped drop overall U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 1.5 percent in 2006, according to the EIA. And the nation rejoiced.

The drop represents only the third drop ever…

Wedged between the IPCC wrapping up its fourth assessment and the Bali negotiations for a "son of Kyoto" (a successor treaty to curb greenhouse gas emissions globally), comes the Scientific American climate change series.

We've got an …

Not to put too fine a point on it, but so is everything else. Nothing we experience falls outside the mind, and the wonderful wetware behind it we call the brain. So looking into it to find out what's going on when we experience some of the most profound--and ancient--of human experiences is a …