Scientific American: Environmentalism, like politics in general, is depressingly polarized these days. On one side, alarmists like the activist Bill McKibben, climatologist James Hansen and blogger Joe Romm warn that if we don`t cut way back on fossil fuels--now!--civilization may collapse. On the other side, deniers, including most of the current GOP candidates for president, won`t even accept a causal link between surging carbon emissions and warmer temperatures. (Newt Gingrich advocated countering global warming in...Please contiune reading at:
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