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	Resilient adaptation: Adjusting to a changing climate over time (28 April 2008)
	Food insecurity: Some ground realities in Orissa context (guest editorial by Ashutosh Mohanty) (21 March 2008)
	Food security and the surge toward biofuels … and food insecurity? (25 February 2008) (Chinese translation here in PDF)
	After the Fall: Global Warming and Disappearing Seasons (16 November 2007)
	Reversal of Fortune: Nature Is No Longer Our Hostage (12 November 2007)
	Move On dot Climate Skeptics (1 October 2007)
	Oh! What a Lovely Climate Change: Global Warming's Winners and Losers (21 August 2007)
	You say "poh-tay-to" and I say "poh-tah-to." You say "El Niño" and I say "interannual changes in the sea surface temperature in the tropical Pacific Ocean." Oh, let's call the whole thing off! (18 August 2007)
	"Pheew!" on the New York Times and Pew Center Poll about Improvement of Life in Africa (1 August 2007)
	The Emperor's New Clothes: Is President Bush America's New Emperor? (7 July 2007)
	Mr. Secretary-General Ban: Genocide in Darfur is NOT Because of Global Warming (3 July 2007)
	China's "Eco-Generation" is Alive, Well, and Concerned: H.I.T. and Climate Affairs (2 July 2007)
	USABLE Science vs. Usable SCIENCE: Scientists, Choose Your Weapon (17 May 2007)

Michael (Mickey) Glantz created the Fragilecologies website as a service for those interested in climate-society-environment interactions.

Michael Glantz is a Senior Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). He is a social scientist (Political Science PhD from the University of Pennsylvania) and NCAR’s only senior social scientist since it began 43 years ago.

Before studying the interactions between climate and society (droughts, famines, freezes) and their impacts on political systems and on economies, he was a Metallurgical Engineer. With a Master’s degree in Political Science in 1963, he studied (and visited) violent political revolutions in Africa.

In the early 1970s he was drawn to the West African Sahel as a result of devastating drought and famine in that region and in Ethiopia. At that time he was selected as a postdoctoral fellow to NCAR’s Advanced Study Program and worked for NCAR’s founder and former director, Dr. Walter Orr Roberts, on a project to assess the value of a long-range climate forecast for agriculture and range management in West Africa and for agriculture in the Canadian Prairie Provinces. This study led him to inquire about the value of forecasts of a little known (at that time in the mid-1970s) phenomenon known as El Niño. This was one of the first studies of the societal impacts of El Niño.

Glantz wrote a bi-weekly column for the Daily Camera (Boulder, Colorado) for six years (the Environmental Minute) and for the Daily Planet for a couple of years (The Last Flight Out). He created the Fragilecologies website in order to write articles for those who use the Internet in search of information on topics related to climate-society-environment interactions. Other topics are also addressed under a section called “Up close and personal.”

If so desired, you can contact Michael (Mickey) Glantz (glantz AT ucar.edu) at NCAR or visit his home page on the NCAR site at the Center for Capacity Building, a multidisciplinary group he established in April 2005.

The links below take you to some of Mickey’s most recent endeavors and to two quarterly newsletters that were edited by Mickey (the Network Newsletter and the ENSO Signal). These newsletters are currently archived and no longer updated.

Note: The views expressed on this website are those of the editor and in no way reflect the views of the National Center for Atmospheric Research or any other organization or individual, except for the editorials of the guest editors.