Global Warming: The Effects of Daily Life
Our Earth's ozone layer has become irreversibly damaged due to the amount of greenhouse gases that have been created and emitted over the last several hundred years, which become trapped in the atmosphere.

Speaking of Climate change
Chances are you’ve heard someone (maybe yourself) complain about the pollen lately. Did you know you can trace it to climate change? More carbon dioxide equals faster-growing plants equals record-high local pollen counts of 5,000 or more — bound to be irritating when most people are allergic to counts of 120, says James Porter, the Meigs Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia.

Is Global Warming Actually Cooling?
A change in Mars' climate might be an interesting bit of cocktail party conversation and nothing more, but for the fact that the warming on Mars has largely coincided with the surface temperature increases observed on Earth. This brings into question the prevalent "conventional wisdom" on global warming, which holds that the fact that humans are pumping carbon dioxide into the Earth's atmosphere via automobiles and industrial processes is to blame for temperature change. That was the conclusion of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which has been widely reported in vastly simplified versions. But, increasingly, scientists are risking being ostracized by asking for a hard look at the data before buying into ...

Mexico, Germany urge climate change action
KOENIGSWINTER, Germany - With the fight against global warming in serious trouble, Germany and Mexico are calling on world leaders to get international negotiations back on track and reach concrete results by the end of the year.

Climate change no tall tale for local fisherman
When it comes to fishermen, "We have a reputation as notorious liars," says Rich Rusk with a laugh. But as chairman of the Oconee River Chapter of Trout Unlimited, he along with his fellow fishermen have seen a sobering truth: during the height of the drought, young trout dying in North Georgia hatcheries, and mature trout floating up dead in the Chattahoochee River's 85-degree water.

Forum: U.S. inactive on climate change
Ten years after President Bush withdrew the United States from the Kyoto climate change agreement, the United States is still dragging its feet on global warming.

Local climate change 'denier' makes poor arguments
We are perplexed by a recent column on global climate change written by Jack Scott, identified in the Insights and Ideas section of Sunday's Banner-Herald as "a local bookbinder and restorator" who lives in Jackson County (The Big Idea, "Climate change consensus").

John Maerz: Climate column was disservice
The Banner-Herald showed poor judgment in running local writer Jack Scott's Sunday piece on climate change. Under the misleading headline "Climate change consensus," Scott offered as evidence of the falseness of climate-change science the fact that Copernicus and Galileo challenged the prevailing cosmological view that the Earth was the center of our universe, and that Soviet scientist Trofim Lysenko promoted a false scientific challenge to Mendelian genetics. Neither has anything to do with the merits of climate-change science, and is nothing more than a distraction from an informed discussion.