Due to their substantial volume, subsoils contain more of the total soil carbon (C) pool than
topsoils. Much of this C is thousands of years old, suggesting that subsoils offer …

The best way to reduce global warming is, without any doubt, cutting down our
anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. But the world economy is addict to energy …

This paper addresses key implications in momentous current global energy choices–both for
social science and for society. Energy can be over-used as a lens for viewing social …

Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little
to head off this looming catastrophe. In The Perfect Moral Storm, philosopher Stephen …

“Climate Shock could have reasonably been called But Will the People Notice? It'sa
layperson's survey of climate economics, a field that includes cost-benefit analysis and other …

The Sahelian drought of the 1970s–1990s was one of the largest humanitarian disasters of
the past 50 years, causing up to 250,000 deaths and creating 10 million refugees. It has …

What happens to be common to both the war on terror and the securitization/militarization of
climate change is the speculative preemption of future threats and dangers to justify the …

A new model for the relationship between science and democracy that spans policymaking,
the funding and conduct of research, and our approach to new technologies Our ability to act …

The risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without
fossil fuels is daunting, possibly even insurmountable. So there is an urgent need to rethink …

Solar geoengineering refers to deliberately reducing net radiative forcing by reflecting some
sunlight back to space, in order to reduce anthropogenic climate changes; a possible such …