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Guardian Environmental Network
By Michael Lemonick
Fasten Your Seatbelts: Climate Change Could Make for a Bumpy Flight
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April 10, 2013: Better pack an extra barf bag ... scientists find turbulence might get worse with climate change.
Will Fall Foliage Clash with Climate Change?
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September 25, 2012: Global warming brought strange weather last winter and devastating drought this summer. Will it ruin autumn, too?
How Much Will Sea Level Rise? Grab Your Towel
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June 20, 2012: There are two main reasons why sea level is rising as the world gets warmer. First, as ice sheets and glaciers melt, they send ice and water pouring into the oceans.  But another reason is that water, like most... read more >
Humanity Has a Spokesman and It's Jim Hansen
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April 9, 2012: After Al Gore, James Hansen is probably the man climate skeptics most love to hate. Unlike Gore, Hansen is an actual scientist, at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York (it’s located above the restaurant... read more >
It Don’t Mean a Thing, That First Day of Spring
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March 19, 2012: It’s that wonderful time of year again, and no, I don't mean March Madness. March 20 marks the first day of spring, which means newscasters and TV meteorologists and The Weather Channel will be making their usual fuss. But ... read more >
Filling Up with Answers to Your Pain at the Pump
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March 2, 2012: Gas prices are in the news, as the average cost for a gallon of unleaded regular keeps rising toward $4. Politicians and the general public have been increasingly vocal in their demand that President Obama do something... read more >
No, You Weren't Hallucinating: January Was Really Warm
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February 8, 2012: As it does every month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released U.S. weather stats for the month just ended, and the results will come as a huge shock -- if you've been hiding in a... read more >
Global Warming: Still Not A Hoax!
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October 24, 2011: Richard Muller is a man climate scientists love to hate. Among other things, the Berkeley physicist has questioned the professional integrity of people like Penn State's Michael Mann, one of the creators of the so-called "... read more >
Irene's Potential for Destruction Made Worse by Global Warming, Sea Level Rise
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August 26, 2011: We're now a day out from Hurricane Irene’s projected landfall in the Outer Banks of North Carolina (or near-miss, and it doesn’t make a lot of difference which it is). A day later -- sometime Sunday, that is -- the storm’... read more >
Have Chinese Coal Plants Been Keeping Global Warming in Check?
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July 5, 2011: Some popular myths about climate change are like zombies. You can stab them, shoot them, beat them about the head with a baseball bat, and they just get up and keep going. One such undead notion is the idea that if humans... read more >

Re "Have Chinese Coal Plants Been Keeping Global Warming in Check?" (July 9, 2011): I can't quite get under the layers of sarcasm to figure out what Meme Mine's point actually is. I'd be happy to try addressing it if I could, though Read More >
Weeds From Hell in a Greenhouse World
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June 3, 2011: Beekeepers love yellow starthistle. "It makes fantastic honey," says Jeffrey Dukes, an ecologist at Purdue University. "But for ranchers, it’s a real problem." That’s an understatement. Since its accidental introduction... read more >

Re "Weeds From Hell in a Greenhouse World" (June 3, 2011): I'm not enough of a botanist to know for sure, but it's certainly not implausible to me. I would never say that increased CO2 is invariably going to be harmful in all ways. Most responsible scientists say there will probably... Read More >
Rising Seas On Tap for the West Coast?
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May 5, 2011: The late House Speaker Tip O'Neill once observed famously that "all politics is local." The same, it turns out, goes for sea level. Overall, the world's oceans have been rising over the past century -- at about 2... read more >
Michael Lemonick
Mike Lemonick is the senior science writer at Climate Central. He has covered science and the environment for TIME magazine for nearly 21 years, and has also written for Discover, Scientific American, Wired, New Scientist and The... More
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