America’s national parks give us the rare opportunity to see a star-filled night sky — a window on nature that most of us who live anywhere near a town or developed area have probably never truly witnessed. But even in the wilds of our national parks the experience can sometimes elude us, if the night [...]
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When Coal Cools: a Global Warming Enigma
The Dallas-Fort Worth area is currently on its thirty-ninth consecutive day of temperatures in the triple digits. The region might soon break its record of forty-two consecutive days at 100 or above, set in 1980. And according to the Weather Channel, drought now affects over a million square miles of the lower forty-eight states, or [...]
Happy Birthday, Global Warming
Happy 35th, global warming. No, I’m not implying that the earth started to warm up just 35 years ago, but that this month marks the birthday of the two-word term. On August 8, 1975, Wallace Broecker published a paper titled Climate Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming? in the journal [...]
