Global Warming

U.S. President Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change

As prepared for delivery at the United Nations climate-change summit in New York.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

How High Will It Go?

How the price of oil might superspike once again.

BY THE MCKINSEY GLOBAL INSTITUTE | SEPT. / OCT. 2009

Seven Myths About Alternative Energy

As the world looks around anxiously for an alternative to oil, energy sources such as biofuels, solar, and nuclear seem like they could be the magic ticket. They're not. 

BY MICHAEL GRUNWALD | SEPT. / OCT. 2009

Running a Temperature

Climate change will soon be the world's greatest health crisis.

BY ANTHONY COSTELLO | JUNE 24, 2009

The Long Legs of the Crash: 13 Unexpected Consequences of the Financial Crisis

Last year had more than its share of vertigo-inducing headlines: major banks suddenly disappearing, the Dow plunging day after day, and billion-dollar bailouts failing to make a dent in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

BY DANIEL W. DREZNER | MARCH 1, 2009

Hope and (Climate) Change

Eileen Claussen of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change thinks Bill McKibben is too quick to dismiss efforts to stop global warming.

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The World’s Top 20 Public Intellectuals

In our last issue, we named the world's top 100 public intellectuals and asked readers to vote for those they deem most deserving of the top honors. Now, 500,000 votes later, we reveal the results of the reader poll. Plus, members of the Top 100 name the intellectuals they believe should have made the list.

JUNE 16, 2008

Czech on the Environment

BY JIRI PEHE | APRIL 10, 2008

Global Warming? No Sweat.

APRIL 10, 2008

A Chorus of Solutions

There are no easy solutions. We may have to try them all at once.

BY THOMAS HOMER-DIXON | APRIL 18, 2007

450 Ways to Stop Global Warming

There's no denying the Earth is getting hotter. Now we just have to draw a line in the sand.

BY BILL MCKIBBEN | MARCH 31, 2007

Expert Sitings: Mark Lynas

Mark Lynas is a columnist for Britain's New Statesman magazine and the author of High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis. His blog can be found at marklynas.org.

DECEMBER 27, 2006

Warm New World

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Wooden Solution

JUNE 12, 2006

In Green Company

If Kyoto is so dangerous, why is corporate America already playing by its rules?

BY STUART EIZENSTAT, RUBÉN KRAIEM | AUGUST 30, 2005

Heat-Seeking Missives

BY CHRISTA S. CLAPP | NOVEMBER 1, 2004

The Dependent Colossus

Although globalization today reinforces American power, over time it promises to have the opposite effect.

BY JOSEPH S. NYE JR. | MARCH 1, 2002

Vox Americani

What do Americans want? The U.S. public's view of the world has long been a study in what seem like maddening contradictions, at times both altruistic and paranoid, protectionist and entrepreneurial, and isolationist and multilateralist. Like many other analysts, FP's editors have worn deep furrows into our brows trying to discern how Americans see the world and their place in it. So we invited Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland and author of several groundbreaking studies of U.S. public opinion, to "interview" the American people on the most pressing global issues of the day. He created a composite of average Americans -- a virtual John/Jane Q. Public -- derived from the majority positions in extensive polling data and using the kind of language he commonly hears in focus groups. (An annotated version of this interview can be found at www.foreignpolicy.com with footnotes citing poll questions and data.) As it turns out, Americans defy simple labels, largely because they refuse to submit to simplistic choices.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2001