With only a few minor adjustments to account for dates and sports utility vehicles, this NY Times article on recent car buying trends could have been written thirty years ago. Start with the headline: As Gas Costs Soar, Buyers Flock to Small Cars I have childhood memories of such headlines. Change the price-a-gallon and replace [...]

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According to a recent scientific study, as reported in Science Daily, the water crisis in the Western United States is the result of human-induced climate change and will continue to get worse at current levels of global warming. The team scaled down global climate models to the regional scale and compared the results to observations [...]

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