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For a long time -- the first 15 years that we knew about global warming and did nothing -- there were no pictures. That was one of the reasons for inaction. Climate change was still "theoretical," the word that people in power use to dismiss anything for which pictures do not exist. It is the reason we don't see shots of coffins coming back from Iraq; it's the reason the only prison abuse we really know about was at Abu Ghraib. Without pictures, no uproar; not in a visual age. But now the pictures have started to come, and they will not cease.

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Physics & Society, The journal of the 46,000-member American Physical Society, just published

Meet The Press: Interview with Al Gore

Robert Grumbine has a series of posts with thoughts about climate change and what a non-expert can do to get properly informed:

Iain Murray, Senior Fellow of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, outlines his three step strategy to address global warming that he calls the conservative approach.

Former Vice President Al Gore gave a speech in Washington laying out his new approach to the entwined challenges of limiting risks from global warming and instability from rising energy prices and declining supplies of fossil fuels. He calls for the United States to produce all electricity from