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Talk of Managing Earth as an Asset Wins Over Congressional Climate Change Skeptic

In a break from years of acrimony over basic science, House Budget Committee members on Tuesday tripped over each other to agree that climate change is not only real but caused by humans. “The last decade has seen dramatic advances …

Why Conservatives’ Climate Policy Won’t Work: Flavelle

There’s a lot to like about Eli Lehrer’s argument for National Review that conservatives should stop downplaying global warming and instead try to take advantage of it. But beyond demonstrating the promise of that approach, he inadvertently shows how little …

North Carolina Lawmakers Pass 4 Year-Ban on Sea Level Policy Changes

After North Carolina lawmakers were ridiculed for their attempts to ignore a state-sponsored science panel that predicted a sharp rise in sea levels, they agreed this week to forbid any state agency to make policies on sea-level change until 2016 …