Topic: Stanford University

Stanford study: Traditional farming's high production protects land, limits greenhouse gasesAdvances in conventional agriculture have dramatically slowed the flow of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, in part by allowing farmers to grow more food to meet world demand without plowing up vast ...

California: climate change law won't hurt economy

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's economy will not be damaged by the state's 2006 climate change law, a state agency said in a report on Wednesday that counters the business community's arguments that the economically troubled state will lose more jobs and ...
AP Poll: 3 in 4 people view climate change as serious problem, say Earth already warmingThree of every four Americans view climate change as a serious problem that will harm future generations if not addressed, according to an Associated Press-Stanford University poll. ...

Climate change could be even worse than feared

It seems the dire warnings about future devastation sparked by global warming have not been dire enough, top climate scientists warned Saturday. It has been just over a year since the Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a landmark report ...