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No doubt human population growth is a major contributor to global warming, given that humans use fossil fuels to power their increasingly mechanized lifestyles. More people means more demand for oil, ...

With respect to global warming, or whatever it is called now to lead the propagandized sheep down the primrose socialist global government path to serfdom, something happened a few thousand years ago ...

There's a consensus among leading scientists that global warming is caused by human activity. What–if anything–should we do about it? JEFFREY BALL: Global warming is fundamentally harder than past ...

All of you deniers and flat-earthers who are exploiting the glacial temperatures and bizarre snowfall to mock global warming fears are missing the point: Weather isn’t the same as climate. Shoddy ...

Global cloud coverage appears to be shrinking and could be exacerbating the warming effects of climate change, according to research based on NASA satellite data. Earth currently receives more solar ...

No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth. Never mind what you’ve heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take ...

THE POLITICS of global warming is heating up. Activists are often taking sharply opposing sides on nearly every one of the warming issues. Trite and ad hoc political arguments intrude unapologetically ...

A growing number of people now recognize radio frequency identification’s potential to help industry and commerce increase profitability by enabling operational efficiencies. Less commonly understood ...