Articles by Kit Stolz

A “simple remedy” for global warming

Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth has been criticized for not offering enough ideas to solve global warming. But his documentary has not only far exceeded box office expectations, grossing three times the early estimates already; it has also brought in waves of new ideas from well-known thinkers in a variety of fields.

As long as global warming was thought to be a murky scientific controversy, so-called opinion leaders could safely ignore the subject. But now that -- as science reporter Eugene Linden remarked in an interview a couple of months ago -- "the naysayers and deniers are starting to look more and more like idiots," the experts are scrambling for unclaimed ground on which to plant their flag and show their smarts.

Global warming: The spectator sport

A chunk of rock twice the size of the Empire State Building will soon fall from the Eiger, one of Switzerland's most famous peaks. Tourists from around Switzerland are flocking to the site, near the diminishing Grindenwald Glacier. Geologists blame global warming, because as the ice melts, water gets into existing cracks and opens them wider.