Kyla Tienhaara (RIN): A Tale of Two Crises: What the Global Financial Crisis Means for the Global Environmental Crisis. Today, engineers are capable of radical, large-scale climate manipulation; Erika Engelhaupt investigates the global management strategies they are designing to control temperature spikes on Earth. Only recently have economists begun thinking systematically about directed technical change as a major weapon against global warming. How fences could save the planet: As politicians get bogged down in debating complicated strategies to fight climate change, Mark Stevenson meets an Australian accountant with an amazingly simple idea. John Carey on calculating the true cost of global climate change. Thomas Schelling on the economics of global warming: Melting glaciers, rising incomes, and food. Does helping the planet hurt the poor? No, if the West makes sacrifices, says Peter Singer. From Monthly Review, John Bellamy Foster on capitalism and degrowth — an impossibility theorem; Fred Magdoff on ecological civilization; and a review of Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis by Richard Heinberg. Scientists say that 2010 topped the temperature and precipitation charts, providing fresh evidence that global warming is real. Dire prediction for the Year 3000: Even if humans stop producing excess carbon dioxide in 2100, the lingering effects of global warming could span the next millennia. Can we trust climate models? Increasingly, the answer is "yes".
