New Scientist: IN 2001, at the age of 52, Richard Primack packed the records of 21 years of research on tropical rainforests into a filing cabinet.
Despite a cool reception from his colleagues at Boston University, the professor of biology had decided to leave that research behind, and see what he could do to make the threat of climate change more tangible. He wanted to find evidence of warming that would be so "up close and personal" that people could not remain unconcerned by change that is too slow for most...