New Scientist: Climate change just got personal - or at least, that's how President Barack Obama is selling the idea of taking action on climate change to the American people. Launching his long-awaited plan to combat climate change today, Obama explicitly linked current hardships to our planet's warming trend: "Farmers see crops wilted one year, washed away the next, and the higher food prices get passed on to you," he told an audience at Georgetown University in Washington DC. With the Republican majority in...