In "Ready Player One," the novelist Ernest Cline extrapolates from the ripples that rising energy prices and climate change send through the economy, and gives us a future where the suburbs die off and many people are packed into in high-rise urban trailer parks, spending their days on an increasingly addictive Internet instead of facing the quotidian squalor.
As a spokesman for Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, Mr. Morano was for years a ceaseless purveyor of the dissenting view on climate change, sending out a blizzard of e-mail to journalists covering the issue.
Organizations such as the Heartland Institute, which questions whether humans cause climate change, send out free educational materials to teachers and school boards.
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Scientists have warned that climate change has sent the health of oceans "spiralling downward" faster than previously thought.
Just when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has sent us yet another dire warning about the consequences of burning fossil fuels, when consumption is driving us off a cliff and when big American automakers are finally mainstreaming electric cars (that is, after all, what these ads were ultimately about), the brawl over this story has never been more important.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sent a strongly worded message to policymakers around the world early today: The new science of the past 6 years has only reinforced the already-confident conclusions of the 2007 IPCC assessment report.
The nation's largest business association -- which has aggressively lobbied against the passage of climate change legislation, sent a letter to bill co-sponsor Sen. Barbara Boxer, saying "Senators Kerry and Graham have set forth a positive, practical and realistic framework for legislation, one that echoes the core principles of the Chamber".
To irritate his adversaries, a software developer from Australia designed a bot that automatically responds to tweets from climate change deniers, sending them counterarguments and links to studies debunking their claims.
