Missoula winery calls this harvest most unusual - Montana

Wine Maker, Andy Sponseller, says this summer has been cool and dry and each year it seems the season is lengthen because of climate change.

[But they're not even climatologists] - Climate change conference takes the pulse of Canadians

Who I am: I'm from a small town (but not THAT small) in Cape Breton. I have just started my first year in a B.A. at Dalhousie University in Halifax. I plan to major in sustainability.

I had always planned on pursuing music and the guitar, but in the past year or two my morals have forced me to turn in another direction: an environmental one.

World witnessing "greatest global disaster since the very existence of the United Nations," says San Marino - People's Daily Online

San Marino's Minister for Foreign and Political Affairs Antonella Mularoni on Monday expressed grave concern over the current world economic and financial crisis, calling it "the greatest global disaster since the very existence of the United Nations."

Our Earth and climate change

What we need to change is our understanding of climate and the Earth as a whole. The Earth is constantly changing, typically in cycles, always in fact, and as humans, we can strive to understand the processes of change. As humans, we are a change agent, as part of the complex set of systems that operate on our planet. Human effects on our environment must always be considered but within the balance of all existing natural Earth processes. However, human activities simply cannot dominate long-standing natural Earth processes. As numerous and important as we see ourselves, we pale in comparison to the large-scale, ancient processes and changes that define our planet. We must understand this in order to move forward. Our future welfare depends on it.
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Doug Wyatt is a Ph. D. geologist and geophysicist in Aiken.