Society to review climate message

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.

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").

Page: Yes, global warming could mean more snow
Here's a recent headline that caused a few double takes in Washington: "Global warming hearing postponed because of snow."

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.

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.

Global Warming Overcooked?
The Academy Award received by Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" was a major coup for those who believe the current global warming phenomena the Earth is experiencing are largely caused by human creations like automobiles and industrialization. But now a prominent French scientist, who 15 years ago was on the leading edge of proclaiming that global warming was of serious concern, has reversed course. Dr. Claude Allegre, a prominent geochemist who was one of 1,500 prominent scientists to sign the letter known as "The World Scientists Warning to Humanity" detailing the threat of global warming, has recently proclaimed that science does not support predictions of calamity surrounding climate change.

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.

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 ...