[Should third-year law students be setting international economic policy, based on their belief in the greatest scientific fraud in history?]

Following on the heels of organizing an internationally-renowned climate change conference of their own, two UW School of Law students were invited to present at an international conference on climate change in Shanghai, China. Third-year law students Jen Marlow and Jeni Krencicki Barcelos coordinated Three Degrees: The Law of Climate Change and Human Rights Conference last May, a law student-led effort to develop a legal system addressing the impacts of climate change on human rights.
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Marlow and Krencicki Barcelos will return to campus in the fall to finish their third year of law school and draft recommendations to present to international policy makers at the United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009 (COP 15) later this year.

[Try to guess whether this story is accompanied by a picture of cracked mud]: Fertile Crescent 'will disappear this century' - environment - 27 July 2009 - New Scientist

Is it the final curtain for the Fertile Crescent? This summer, as Turkish dams reduce the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to a trickle, farmers abandon their desiccated fields across Iraq and Syria, and efforts to revive the Mesopotamian marshes appear to be abandoned, climate modellers are warning that the current drought is likely to become permanent. The Mesopotamian cradle of civilisation seems to be returning to desert.

The Fertile Crescent in ancient times

...unlike the land and water to the southwest, the Fertile Crescent was an unforgiving part of the world, a place where three continents came together, two rivers flooded inconsistently and one fate marked their lot: death. Both drought and flood were common