When you turn your thermostat down a few degrees despite the cold weather, purchase an energy-efficient washing machine, or replace your incandescent bulbs with LED lamps, you know you’re reducing your power bill. But are you meaningfully helping to reduce the nation’s carbon footprint? It appears so. A study published in the November issue of [...]

By now you probably know something about “Climategate,” the cleverly-dubbed controversy surrounding the recently-hacked emails of prominent British and American climate scientists. The exchanges originated from a server at the University of East Anglia and date from 1996 to November of this year.  The stolen emails are generating a good deal of debate about anthropogenic [...]