• The selections, which span from 1918 to 1980 also feature recordings that capture the political climate of the period, including Jimmie Davis' You Are My Sunshine (1940) which became Davis' campaign song while running for governor in Louisiana.

    BBC: Pink Floyd album to be preserved by US Library

  • About 14 million years ago, a period of climate change caused the formation of the Antarctic ice sheet, which averages one mile in thickness and gets up to three miles thick in some parts.

    BBC: How Antarctica works

  • In 2003 Hansen wrote a widely distributed (but not peer reviewed) paper called Can We Defuse the Global Warming Time Bomb? in which he argues that human-caused forcings on the climate are now greater than the natural ones, and that this, over a long time period, can cause large climate changes.

    FORBES: Yes! We Should Defund The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change

  • Al Gore has been "working" for climate change for an enormous period of four whole years, coincidentally discovering this new passion right when his political career was slouching to its end.

    CNN: readers sound off on Gore, Nobel Peace Prize

  • She said the publication of the Report on Proposals and Policies on Climate Change Targets marked the completion of the first period of "focused action" following the passage of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act.

    BBC: Ministerial statement: Climate change targets

  • Dr Rajendra Pachauri has been chairman of the IPCC since 2002 and was elected for a second six-year term in 2008, but the report suggested a chairman should not remain in the role for more than the period taken to produce one climate science assessment.

    BBC: IPCC chairman 'should be replaced'

  • Doubters for the most part are big fans of the medieval warm period, and see in the climate scientists' arguments an attempt to rewrite history so as to maximise the drama of today's warming and minimise the possibility that natural variation might explain the 20th-century record.

    ECONOMIST: The science of climate change

  • Such tree-ring records, along with other so-called proxy archives, can provide a wealth of information about volcanic events and their varying impacts around the globe because of resulting shifts in atmospheric circulation and other climate changes, dating for centuries prior to the period of instrumental record.

    CNN: How volcanoes can change the world

  • But he said they were consistent with the models developed to estimate climate change from the gases over a 125-year period.

    BBC: Ice records reveal warming trend

  • According to the FAO, climate change could have potentially disastrous consequences for food security in the period 2050-2100.

    CNN: , Special for

  • "For multi-decadal variability, over the historical period, the major cause was aerosols as opposed to climate change or ocean acidification, " he explained.

    BBC: Particles from fossil fuels 'affect the growth of corals'

  • The cause of this dietary adjustment may be related to climate change, with rising temperatures documented in the Bering Sea at that period perhaps driving the movements of fish populations.

    BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Birds hit by climate, diet shift

  • In the Middle East people started to build settlements as early as 15, 000 years ago, a period called the Early Natufian, but a drying of the climate made them nomadic again between 12, 800 and 11, 500 years ago.

    ECONOMIST: The earliest granaries

  • The period leading up to the domestication of cereals was one of erratic climate change, as the last ice age ended.

    ECONOMIST: The earliest granaries

  • During the intervening period between the two polls, there was a series of high profile climate-related stories, some of which made grim reading for climate scientists and policymakers.

    BBC: Climate scepticism 'on the rise', BBC poll shows

  • Mandating that entrepreneurs stay for a shorter period of time, maybe a year or so, and trying to create a business climate that will entice companies to stay, could be a better bet.

    FORBES: Immigration Reform is Critical to Economic Growth in Texas

  • The e-mails, along with other documents, covered a period dating back to 1997 and were released into the public domain just before the Copenhagen climate summit last year, with some seeing it as a political act designed to destabilise the summit.

    BBC: Science & Technology Committee

  • This is based on the way the climate behaved about 20, 000 years ago, at the peak of the last ice age, a period when carbon-dioxide concentrations leapt.

    FORBES: Climate Change Is Now Less Of a Problem. So We Need To Do Less About Climate Change

  • As the volume of properties new to the market and selling are slow due to the time of year and the economic climate, it is hard to judge the impact of the home report introduction and it will probably take a longer period of time to conclude any trends from its effects.

    BBC: Market 'not all doom and gloom'

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