Time Magazine November 30, 2012 by Bryan Walsh

IMAGE COURTESY OF IAN JOUGHIN

November 26, 2012 by Karl Ritter Associated Press

DOHA, Qatar — The U.S. defended its track record on fighting climate change on Monday at U.N. talks, saying it's making "enormous" efforts to slow global warming and help the poor nations most affected by it.

Christian Science Monitor November 15, 2012 by David J. Unger (environmental reporter for Medill News Service)

In response to a reporter's question during his first press conference after reelection, President Obama says he aims to curb the effects of climate change while growing the economy.

Politico by Alex Guillen

Climate change will likely lead to more frequent extreme weather events as well as droughts and floods, triggering serious social and political disruption that poses a potential threat to U.S. national security, a National Research Council report shows.

(see Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis, by the Committee on Assessing the Impacts of Climate Changer in Social and Political Stresses, edited by John D. Steinbruner, Paul C. Stern, and Jo L. Husbands)

PBS News Hour October 18, 2012

On Thursday, after nine months of record-breaking high temperatures and a scorching drought, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced their prediction that the winter of 2012/2013 is likely to follow the same trend. This year could be the warmest in the 118-year record in the continental United States, said Deke Arndt, chief of climate monitoring at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. 

New York Times Environment section (19 SEP 2012), by Justin Gillis

A view of the east coast of Greenland, where the ice sheet meets the sea.

examiner.com September 19, 2012

Recent polls show that the tide is definitely shifting in favor of those who believe in climate change. A Gallup poll in March of this year showed that 55% of Americans worry about climate change, and a recent poll by the University of Texas (UT) shows that 70 percent of Americans now believe that we are going through a period of climate change.

The term global warming has even evolved into a new term “climate change”, with the battle over the climate even taking to the courts.