A little bit more focused in terms of subject is this weeks subject of some sort of climate change report. I chose to look at the report from the United States Global Change Research Program.
Before even starting to look at the report, I checked out the authors and who wrote the report. Turns out that they have a pretty wide variety of people (mostly scientists) who are all advising the report itself. Some are professors, some are professionals, but all of them seem to be experts. I'm always skeptical of sources for information, especially something as important and controversial as climate change. Although skeptical, the authors of this report appear to have a decent record in terms of experience. This information is found here: http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/first-national-assessment/national-assessment-synthesis-team
Moving onto the 163 page summary report, there is a lot of useful information to be gleaned from every page. The temperature will be increasing 5-9 degrees or more in the next 100 years. Climate patterns in terms of temperature, precipitation, and storms will all be affected. The food supply will not be secure. There's a lot of scary information found in this report.
The most important part of which I think is the fact that the real, or actual results can not be 100% predicted. That's the scary part, that we can't fully anticipate what's going to happen in the future to the entire planet. Everything will be different; organisms, the atmosphere, populations.
Here's a link to the report:
http://downloads.globalchange.gov/nca/nca-2000-report-overview.pdf
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