Two of the best in a long time:
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/opinion/krugman-loading-the-climate-dice.html
Weather variability and the road to environmental ruin.
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/opinion/sunday/were-all-climate-change-idiots.html
Our brains are wired to deny climate change?
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Worrisome indicators, tucked away in articles about other topics:
1. Off the coast of Brittany lies the French island named Ile de Sein. Inhabitants have lived through hunger, a terrible flood, two cholera epidemics, and refused to accept Nazi occupation. But:
"Today, the residents of Ile de Sein are confronted by a more existential threat. With increasingly rough storms and a global rise in sea levels of 0.14 inches per year since the early 1990's, the exisence of the island -- just five feet above sea level, on average -- seems increasingly at risk."
A big storm could virtually sink it.
2. "With Warming, Peril Underlies Road to Alaska":
" . . . But climate change is most worrisome of all [for the Alaskan Highway]. Not only is the world warming: it is warming fastest in high northern latitudes. And the problem is getting worse, with no easy solutions.
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