Novel uses for “green roofs” in cities include weather stations and bee keeping

Understanding ice ages seen as a “great mystery” of our time.

Columbia University climate expert says Wall Street Journal columnist still doesn’t understand global warming

Wall Street Journal editorial page accused of spreading “misinformation and confusion” on climate change.

Climate Change exhibit at American Museum of Natural History gets unjustified criticism from New York Times

Danish writer Bjorn Lomborg says that the world should hear about a slight decline in sea levels in the past 2 years — but Stuart Gaffin argues that it is deceptive to suggest that sea levels have stopped rising.

Republican weekly gives wrong-minded diatribe against inventor Buckminster Fuller

Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, is doubtful about global warming: breaking with the concern expressed in the past by John McCain. Sound familiar?

Some commentators who doubt global warming wrongly say that carbon dioxide is not a greenhouse gas: their arguments are often nonsense, writes Stuart Gaffin of Columbia University.

Stuart Gaffin is a climate researcher at Columbia University and a regular contributor with his blog “Exhausted Earth”. ThomsonReuters is not responsible for the content – the views are the author’s alone.
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A new exhibit in New York about the life of the late iconoclastic architect, inventor, engineer, and philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller raises questions about the type of ideas he might have used to confront global warming