Climate Forecasts for All : "Scientific" American Podcast

Global warming could transform large swathes of Africa: shifting rains, spreading malaria and other insect borne diseases, even changing the size of the Sahara Desert.

Flashback: Sahara Desert Greening Due to Climate Change?

Scientists are now seeing signals that the Sahara desert and surrounding regions are greening due to increasing rainfall.

If sustained, these rains could revitalize drought-ravaged regions, reclaiming them for farming communities.

This desert-shrinking trend is supported by climate models, which predict a return to conditions that turned the Sahara into a lush savanna some 12,000 years ago.

Northeast Passage’s “First Known Commercial Shipment”? Almost « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

I am not sure if I will ever get an answer from Revkin.

What I am sure of though is that a little less ambiguity and a little more explanation on his part would have been quite welcome. Otherwise readers might get the impression that either the Northeast Passage is ready for leisure yachts, or that it has been forever closed by giant chunks of ice for millennia…

Car dealers fight slow sales after end of Clunkers - Yahoo! News

Like many dealers across the country, the dealership in Ypsilanti Township, Mich., west of Detroit, is suffering from a Cash for Clunkers hangover, and Sales Manager Paul Grahl isn't sure when it will end.