Most recent 40 articles: Time Magazine
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Capitalism can't solve climate change - Time Magazine (Mar 20) |
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Mar 20 · Amidst the gathering gloom about climate change and continuing growth in global greenhouse-gas emissions, the one bright spot appears to be clean energy development. 2023 saw another, much-trumpeted record for renewables installations worldwide, with an estimated 507 GW of new generating capacity being nearly 50 percent higher than 2022’s figure.
The positivity is misplaced. Even on the transition from dirty to clean power, the world is still failing. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has estimated that both electricity generation from coal and gas, and total power-sector CO2 emissions, continued to grow in 2023, to all-time highs of 17,252 TWh and 13,575 Mt CO2, ... Read more ...
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Reintroducing wild jaguars to Argentina is a love story for the planet - Time Magazine (Mar 20) |
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Mar 20 · Recently I visited El Impenetrable National Park in Northeast Argentina, a 500-square-mile expanse of rugged dry forest that's roughly the size of Los Angeles, Calif. El Impenetrable is part of the Gran Chaco, a sprawling region shared by Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay, with 3400 types of plants and hundreds of mammals. Its size and astonishing biodiversity makes the forest only second to the Amazon in South America, but could be a galaxy away, for few have ever heard of it.
Yet, for the first visitors to this emerging nature destination, and local communities working to build a regenerative economy based on wildlife watching, the national park is an island of biodiversity, ... Read more ...
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2024 must be the year for exponential climate action - Time Magazine (Jan 16) |
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Jan 16 · Tubiana is the CEO of the European Climate Foundation and France’s Climate Change Ambassador and Special Representative for COP21, and as such a key architect of the landmark Paris Agreement.
Welcome to 2024 - or T minus 6. 2030, a critical milestone in the fight against climate change is now clearly in view.
And yet the world is not on track for where it needs to be.
A course correction is urgently needed to limit warming to the 1.5 degrees Celsius set out in the Paris Agreement. Yet our current trajectory of between 2.5 and 2.9 degrees Celsius ensures the prospect of catastrophic climate change.
The U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres put it succinctly: ... Read more ...
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The 3 myths propping up the fossil fuel industry - Time Magazine (Dec 7) |
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Dec 7 · Fossil fuels contribute over 75% of global emissions. Every person at the COP28 climate change summit knows we need to rapidly slash the use of fossil fuels to keep global warming anywhere near the goal of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels determined in the Paris meetings of 2015.
Nevertheless, if just 20 of the world’s major fossil-fuel-producing countries stick to their current plans, they will combine to produce double the amount of fossil fuels than those goals allow. And that doesn’t account for the other 175 or so nations in the world. Meanwhile oil-and-gas companies are profiting more than ever, and investing billions annually to keep fossil fuels going.
The ... Read more ...
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what we're missing when we talk about climate change - Time Magazine (Oct 25, 2023) |
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Oct 25, 2023 · On April 22 (Earth Day) of 1998, the warmest year that had yet been observed, my co-authors and I published the now famous “hockey stick” curve. It was featured on the pages of the New York Times and other leading newspapers, helping it garner worldwide attention.
Here was a simple graph, derived from sources of “proxy” climate data such as tree rings, ice cores, coral, and lake sediment, depicting the average temperature of the northern hemisphere over the past six centuries. It resembled an upturned hockey stick, with the “handle” corresponding to the relatively constant temperatures over the pre-industrial era, and the “blade” corresponding to the dramatic subsequent ... Read more ...
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The tension in climate science between mitigation and adaptation - Time Magazine (Oct 03, 2023) |
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Oct 03, 2023 · Recently a climate scientist named Patrick Brown posted on Twitter, and then in an op-ed, and in an interview with journalist Robinson Meyer, about a paper he had co-authored in the prominent journal Nature about the impact of global warming on wildfires. He described how, rather than write the paper as he thought best, he had tailored its message to what he thought the journal editors wanted. He excluded other factors relevant to wildfire risk - land use, forest management, to what extent fires are ignited by humans - even though those other factors might, he claimed, play bigger roles in the present and near-future risk than climate change.
Brown argued that science journals ... Read more ...
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The air was hot this year, but it's nothing compared to the ocean - Time Magazine (Sep 14, 2023) |
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Sep 14, 2023 · The news is full of record high temperatures. Phoenix broke 110 degrees for 31 straight days. July 3 was the hottest day on Earth since record keeping began, until July 4, then July 6, and then July as a whole. It is anomalously hot - at least if you look at air temperatures 2 meters (about 6 and 1/2 feet) above the surface, which is how it's usually reported by government agencies. But if you look a little more broadly, the heat is not an anomaly - and that's an even bigger problem.
As earth system scientists, we've learned it's sometimes more helpful to look at Earth as, well, a system. In this case, the system of the air and the oceans. Understanding how they interact is ... Read more ...
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Animals don't have AC - Time Magazine (Sep 07, 2023) |
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Sep 07, 2023 · You haven’t been imagining the heat; well over 100-million Americans have been subject to dangerous heat warnings and advisories this sweltering summer, and every day sees yet more maximum temperature records smashed across the Northern Hemisphere. Meteorologists have calculated that July 2023 was the hottest month on record, and that the Earth’s average surface temperature is the highest it’s been in at least 120,000 years.
There’s no shortage of advice for people in hotter-than-normal regions: Wear a sunhat. Drink water. Stay in the shade. Don’t exert yourself outdoors in the middle of the day. Walk your dog before sunrise or in the evening. And when all else fails, go ... Read more ...
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The Inflation Reduction Act took US climate action global - Time Magazine (Aug 16, 2023) |
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Aug 16, 2023 · When the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed a year ago, some of our international allies greeted it with a level of concern if not consternation given the IRA’s focus on expanding U.S. clean energy markets. But in fact, the IRA was not intended to be, nor is it, protectionist. Its mission, coupled with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the CHIPS and Science Act, was to spark private- and public-sector investment across the U.S. - in red and blue states - and beyond, while restoring U.S. leadership on the global stage.
In its first year of implementation, the IRA has been a game changer. It spurred a race to the top. The world’s major economies rushed to develop ... Read more ...
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How a former oil guy is using fracking tech to boost geothermal energy - Time Magazine (Aug 07, 2023) |
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Aug 07, 2023 · Of all the technological progress of the past few decades, there is a good argument to be made that a series of fossil fuel industry innovations that helped spark the U.S. shale oil boom have had the single largest effect on the course of global geopolitics, and the world’s biosphere. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracking shifted the U.S. from being a net fuel importer to exporter - a realignment of the world’s strategic chessboard currently being demonstrated in the fleets of American oil and natural gas tankers helping circumvent Russia’s energy blockade of Europe. At the same time, all that new, cheap fuel helped prolong the U.S.’s carbon addiction for years, with incipient ... Read more ...
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While Texas heats up, its climate denying politicians seek federal help - Time Magazine (Jun 29, 2023) |
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Jun 29, 2023 · Audacity. Effrontery. Temerity. Whatever word you choose, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, and the state’s two senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, are setting the new standard for chutzpah when it comes to juggling climate adaptation with denial and promotion of fossil fuels.
Texas is now in the third week of a record-setting heat wave, exacerbated by climate change, but Abbott and the legislature are doing everything they can to slow the shift to renewables and promote fossil fuels. And, despite their dismissal of the threat of global warming, Abbott, Cornyn, and Cruz have been lobbying vigorously for the federal government to pay the lion’s share of hugely expensive ... Read more ...
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The IRA is our best shot at tackling climate change—but only if we don't squander it - Time Magazine (Jun 27, 2023) |
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Jun 27, 2023 · I grew up watching Schoolhouse Rock, the animated shorts that educated American children of the seventies while we zoned out in front of the TV. The most memorable segment was the one where an adorable singing bill—literally a piece of paper rolled up and tied with red ribbon—started out bored and neglected on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. When he finally made it through the many steps of the legislative process and became a law, everyone would cheer, and then Tom and Jerry or Land of the Lost would come back on. After years of Saturday mornings with “I’m Just a Bill,” the lesson was burned into my young brain: when you want to make change, pass a law. ... Read more ...
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We need to take climate injustice to court - Time Magazine (Mar 29, 2023) |
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Mar 29, 2023 · Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its latest report, the last one while we still have a slender chance of preventing the worst. Such was its existential significance that the United Nations Secretary-General called it “a survival guide for humanity.”
For us Pacific islanders, there is no place to hide from the climate crisis, no denying the reality we are facing. In Vanuatu, we are trying to recover from unprecedented back-to-back cyclones battering our island. With frequent and intense cyclones becoming the new normal, we are in a perpetual state of crisis and recovery. The ocean around us is changing in terrifying ways. Our ... Read more ...
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How El Niño may test the limits of our climate knowledge - Time Magazine (Mar 17, 2023) |
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Mar 17, 2023 · After three years of La Niña, the pattern is forecast to weaken in the coming months, and the start of an El Niño is possible in summer or fall 2023, according to seasonal forecasters. Such a transition would likely have multifarious impacts on weather worldwide, as past El Niños have. But the increasing impact of human-induced climate change places the possibility of an El Niño now into a new context—and raises some new questions.
El Niño and La Niña are the opposite phases of the so-called El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, in which the normally cool waters of the equatorial eastern Pacific ocean warm up (El ... Read more ...
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Ayisha Siddiqa on climate change, human rights, and activism - Time Magazine (Mar 02, 2023) |
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Mar 02, 2023 · When Ayisha Siddiqa talks about poetry, her face lights up. For the 24-year-old Pakistani human rights and climate defender, poetry represents hope—a way to bring humanity back into the staid, high-level conversations that increasingly occupy her time. At the annual U.N. Climate Conference in Egypt in November, she shared an original poem titled “So much about your sustainability, my people are dying” as an unvarnished rebuke of leaders’ failure to act on climate change.
Siddiqa felt the effects of this lack of action viscerally last year as she witnessed from afar the life-altering impacts of Pakistan’s floods, likely made more extreme by global ... Read more ...
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These Indigenous women are fighting Big Oil—and winning - Time Magazine (Dec 15, 2022) |
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Dec 15, 2022 · We are two Indigenous women leaders writing from the frontlines of the battle to save our oceans, our forests, and our planet’s climate. We have good news to share: We know how to beat Big Oil.
From the Amazon rainforest to the shores of the Indian Ocean in South Africa, we have led our communities to mighty victories against oil companies who hoped to profit off our territories. In September 2022, we succeeded in getting a court to revoke a permit that would have allowed Shell to despoil Indigenous farming communities and fishing grounds along the pristine Wild Coast of South Africa. Just a few years earlier in April 2019, we organized Indigenous communities deep in the ... Read more ...
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I lost my home to climate change. I'm fighting so others won't - Time Magazine (Oct 27, 2022) |
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Oct 27, 2022 · I was 10 years old in 2008 when flash flooding displaced 400 people, including my family, from the Butaleja District of Eastern Uganda—a region where illegal sand mining along riverbanks has exacerbated flooding already made worse by climate change. We lost our farm and home, so we moved over 130 miles away to the village of Luzira in Kampala, Uganda’s capital city, where we knew only one person, my maternal grandma, who we lived with.
But her home quickly became too crowded and we had to move to a one-room rental—much smaller and less beautiful than our old home. My mother raised my siblings and I after our father left us soon after moving. She often ... Read more ...
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Egypt isn't qualified to host COP27 - Time Magazine (Oct 27, 2022) |
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Oct 27, 2022 · Climate change has no regard for state borders. Nor does a nation’s wealth or power immunize it from the annual rise in temperatures exacerbating extreme flooding, droughts, and storms. This reality is bringing together nearly 200 nations for COP27, to be held in Egypt—a nation highly vulnerable to climate change but antagonistic toward an essential stakeholder in the climate conversation: independent civil society. Indeed, the Egyptian government has given summit access only to local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that support the regime.
With only 3.4% of its land arable and more than 30% of its population living in poverty, Egypt cannot afford contractions ... Read more ...
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The world can't afford world bank inaction on climate change - Time Magazine (Oct 20, 2022) |
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Oct 20, 2022 · When David Malpass, president of the World Bank, was asked point-blank in September if he accepts the scientific consensus that the burning of fossil fuels is dangerously warming the planet, he dodged the question multiple times before finally responding “I am not a scientist.”
These days you don’t have to be a scientist to recognize the clear connection between burning coal, oil, and gas and the climate-fueled flooding this summer in Pakistan that killed nearly 1,500 people, displaced hundreds of thousands, and fueled an outbreak of waterborne illness. Or the catastrophic flash floods Hurricanes Fiona and Ian unleashed on Puerto Rico and Florida in the past ... Read more ...
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The climate crisis is making the Pacific Islands uninhabitable - Time Magazine (Sep 28, 2022) |
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Sep 28, 2022 · The climate crisis is creating an increasingly uncertain future for people in most parts of the world. Paradoxically in my region, the Pacific, it is making our future increasingly certain—but not in a way that gives any kind of comfort.
During this century, several Pacific Island nations will become uninhabitable. For my country Tuvalu, which sits halfway between Hawaii and Australia, this could happen in the next two to three decades. Other Pacific Island countries on the climate change frontline may have a few decades longer, but our final destination is no longer a matter of guesswork.
Most societies see climate change as mainly about cutting carbon emissions ... Read more ...
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Margaret Atwood doesn't think we're doomed - Time Magazine (Sep 15, 2022) |
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Sep 15, 2022 · Margaret Atwood, the author of more than 60 books, graphic novels, and poetry collections, did not attend a full year of school until she was 12. Her father’s job as a forest entomologist meant the family spent the spring, summer, and fall seasons in the woods of northern Quebec. Today a devotion to nature inspired by that time is a key part of her dynamic storytelling. “That’s my whole experience, growing up amongst the biologists,” Atwood, now 82, said on a September afternoon in Toronto, the city she has called home for decades. “You cannot have the illusion that nature is separate from you.”
Recognition of the environment’s ... Read more ...
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THEY'RE - Time Magazine (Aug 30, 2022) |
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THEY'RE - Time Magazine (Aug 30, 2022) |
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Aug 30, 2022 · For years, outrage over the high-carbon consumption of the rich and famous in the face of climate change has stirred passionate outrage and accusations of hypocrisy, from Leonardo DiCaprio’s private jet rides to Bill Gates’s yacht. This summer the outrage has hit a fever pitch.
First, social media buzzed over reports of wild private jet usage—celebrities taking flights so short that they could have driven in less than an hour—and, later, with a report of almost-comical water usage violations in a part of California experiencing drought. Article after article jumped on these stories to point out just how badly these behaviors harm the planet and everyone ... Read more ...
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Trees are the Secret weapon of America's historic climate bill - Time Magazine (Aug 26, 2022) |
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Aug 26, 2022 · The Inflation Reduction Act is a tectonic shift for America. At a moment of true peril, this legislation pushes aside decades of political paralysis to choose climate action, and the financial stimuli it provides for diverse climate solutions will advance them farther and faster than ever before. While you probably have already heard how this will change the game for clean energy, you might not know the IRA will also power up the world’s oldest climate-fighting technology—nature.
There are two good reasons that lawmakers put nature in this historic legislation. The first is the urgent need for carbon removal, which is anything that can actually pull carbon out of ... Read more ...
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Why Extreme Heat Plus Pollution Is a Deadly Combination - Time Magazine (Jul 28, 2022) |
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Jul 28, 2022 · Two climate-related health risks are converging with alarming frequency: record high temperatures, and air pollution from things like car exhaust and wildfire smoke. Separately, these conditions can make people acutely sick and exacerbate existing health problems. But what happens when they coincide?
Recently, researchers at the University of Southern California set out to answer that question. Their results, based on mortality data from California between 2014 and 2019 and published at the end of June in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, indicate that the combined mortality risk of extreme temperatures and thick pollution is significantly more ... Read more ...
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The increasing death toll in the US from extreme heat - Time Magazine (Jul 20, 2022) |
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Jul 20, 2022 · Last summer, in the Pacific Northwest, record temperatures melted power cables and buckled roads. Seattle reached a record high of 108 degrees and millions of area residents struggled under the weight of unprecedented heat. Just this year, New York and Boston experienced their earliest heat advisories on record and heat waves are again hitting the U.S. I am a cardiologist – you might wonder why am I so concerned about heat?
During the heat wave last summer in the Northwest, approximately 600 additional people died over a week in Oregon and Washington. As climate increases the frequency of extreme weather events like heat waves, my patients and many others will face ... Read more ...
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How the universal language of music can help us solve our planetary problem - Time Magazine (Jun 24, 2022) |
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Jun 24, 2022 · As the climate changes, it’s not too late to save ourselves. There is cause for both optimism and pessimism—salvation could take the form of easy technological fixes or cataclysmic climate events that force us to work together. Barring a groundbreaking technological breakthrough, one of the most likely pathways to climate action is via social movements. Activism through nonviolent protest has been found to be successful in achieving its goals if a critical mass of 3.5% or more of the population is mobilized, In other words, if 11.5 million Americans march in the streets and stay engaged, they can help bring about the radical social and political transformation needed to ... Read more ...
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The motion of the ocean could be the next big source of green energy - Time Magazine (Jun 23, 2022) |
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Jun 23, 2022 · In 1851, Charles Babbage, the English mathematician and inventor, found himself preoccupied with what might happen should coal mines—then and now one of the primary sources of usable energy—become depleted. He concluded that “the sea itself offers a perennial source of power hitherto almost unapplied.” Babbage was talking about tides, those lunar-guided movements of the world’s oceans, and the very synonym of dependable constancy. But while his Difference Engine, a mechanical calculator seen as a seminal fore-runner to the computer, would essentially go on to remake our world, Babbage’s ideas about tidal power drifted in the undercurrent for the ... Read more ...
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Oil companies posted huge profits. Here's where the cash will go - Time Magazine (May 11, 2022) |
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May 11, 2022 · As consumers grapple with high fuel prices and politicians scramble to knock them down, oil companies are not making any sudden moves. That’s because, after years of low fuel prices, they are now enjoying a financial upswing, as demonstrated by lucrative first quarter earnings reports released in late April and early May.
Oil prices started to creep up in late 2021 due to supply constraints, but then turbocharged after Russia invaded Ukraine in February. For Chevron, the upshot was $6.3 billion in profits last quarter, up from $1.4 billion a year ago. For Exxon Mobil, profits more than doubled in the same period, to $5.5 billion. The numbers were also rosy for European ... Read more ...
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Climate change became politicized in the 1990s - Time Magazine (Apr 22, 2022) |
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Apr 22, 2022 · Here’s the situation as it now stands: Even with the Paris Accords on climate change, temperatures are expected to rise by between 2.7 degrees Celsius to 3.7 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2100. To put this in perspective, the last time global temperatures were that high was 2.6 million years ago. There was plenty of life back then, but no humans. It’s highly doubtful that a world that overheated could feed the 7.8 billion people alive today, much less the additional billions that will be added in the coming decades. Indeed, global population has grown by 2.5 billion people since the first international efforts to address global warming began in the early ... Read more ...
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Now is not the time to give in to climate fatalism - Time Magazine (Apr 12, 2022) |
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Apr 12, 2022 · We are at an agonizing moment in world history. The combined stresses of the war in Ukraine, the climate crisis, and economic troubles stemming from spiking oil and gas prices, inflation, and growing global inequality have pushed us to our limits— geopolitically, environmentally, and psychologically. After centuries of colonialism, intensive resource extraction, and narrow, short-term thinking, the chickens have come home to roost. But what if we could feed three birds with one scone?
Following the release of climate reports, such as the recent IPCC assessments, we often observe a surge of doomism. When headlines proclaim it’s “now or never” to limit ... Read more ...
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The war on drugs was a failure. It's not too late for the war on oil - Time Magazine (Feb 09, 2022) |
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Feb 09, 2022 · Can the war on oil be won? The future is uncertain, but we should look to another “war” lessons on this one. For fifty years, the United States has fought an “all-out offensive” on another commodity and been utterly defeated—drugs. Ever since Richard Nixon declared illegal narcotics “public enemy number one,” presidents of both parties have faced a paradox. The harder they fought the criminal enterprises behind the trade, the larger the market for drugs became.
Is there a lesson to be learned by climate change activists? If we are going to win the war on fossil fuels, we need to avoid the total failure of the war on drugs.
The ... Read more ...
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Costs could rise even more in 2023—and thousands of CEOs blame climate change - Time Magazine (Feb 03, 2022) |
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Feb 03, 2022 · What’s behind the most significant inflation in decades? Read most news articles and you’ll hear a variation on a standard answer: a combination of supply chain challenges caused by the quick ramp up of the economy after COVID-19 lockdowns and substantial spending driven by consumers who saved up—and collected money from the government—while businesses were closed.
There’s no question that these two interrelated factors are driving prices higher, but beneath the headlines economists say that extreme weather events tied to climate change are also contributing to inflation. Across the world, climate-linked disasters have killed crops, disrupted ... Read more ...
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Imagine if the rich countries that caused climate change actually took responsibility - Time Magazine (Jan 06, 2022) |
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Jan 06, 2022 · Typically, much of the climate change discussion refers to it as a “threat.” But the reality is, for many on earth, the crisis is already here. Many small-island developing states have already suffered climate-related losses of livelihood, security, and welfare. My country, Palau, has been ravaged by the climate crisis, suffering two major typhoons that resulted in a loss of more than half of our national GDP.
Our lives have been engulfed by sea-level rise for two decades. King tides habitually flow into our homes. Mudslides are common along the only road to our hospital and main business center during increasingly frequent and intense storms. It is only a matter ... Read more ...
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There's a way to end energy poverty—and it has the side effect of making fossil fuels obsolete - Time Magazine (Jan 06, 2022) |
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Jan 06, 2022 · You bring your feverish baby to the hospital in the middle of the night. The nurse asks you to go home to get a flashlight. When the flashlight batteries give out, she resorts to a flickering candle to guide the insertion of an IV needle, delivering malaria medicine, into your baby’s hand.
Maybe you don’t have a baby. Maybe you travel 14 miles a day by public bus to buy fresh fish to sell in your village. Every day, you must sell the fish before your ice melts and your inventory becomes worthless.
In much of Africa, this is the norm. Almost half of the continent’s 1.3 billion population live without electricity, which destroys opportunities for ... Read more ...
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I traveled the world to witness the end of winter - Time Magazine (Nov 05, 2021) |
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Nov 05, 2021 · For a century and a half, melting snow and ice have been the most recognizable visual evidence of climate change. You can see it in the Arctic Ocean, where the first ice-free summer in two and a half million years is predicted by 2035; in the Alps, where half of the range’s iconic glacial ice has vanished; and in the Rockies, Great Lakes and even Northeastern backyards—which were once layered with snow all winter long but now show bare earth throughout the dark months.
Even now, at this late stage in the warming crisis, the unambiguous message that the Great Melt is sending is being obscured. The resulting delay in human action has delivered a new threat: if ... Read more ...
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We can beat climate change if we do one thing fast - Time Magazine (Nov 04, 2021) |
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Nov 04, 2021 · Now, finally, much of the world has become convinced, first-hand, that global warming is not only real but heating up more rapidly than we expected, unleashing irreversible impacts. Many people feel despair and helplessness in the face of doomsday predictions already in evidence. And yet, I’m optimistic that we can solve this problem in time to keep our planet livable for future generations.
I have to be optimistic. I’m the father of young children and I want them to not only survive what humanity has done to our planet, but experience the awe of the natural world that I enjoyed as a child. But I’m also a scientist, and I approach the problem like an ... Read more ...
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An open letter to the global media - Time Magazine (Oct 29, 2021) |
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Oct 29, 2021 · Nakate is a Ugandan climate-justice activist and founder of the Rise Up Movement. Thunberg is a Swedish climate activist and co-founder of the Fridays for Future movement.
Dear media editors around the world,
Melting glaciers, wildfires, droughts, deadly heatwaves, floods, hurricanes, loss of biodiversity. These are all symptoms of a destabilizing planet, which are happening around us all the time.
Those are the kind of things you report about. Sometimes. The climate crisis, however, is much more than just this. If you want to truly cover the climate crisis, you must also report on the fundamental issues of time, holistic thinking and justice.
So what does ... Read more ...
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An open letter to the global media - Time Magazine (Oct 29, 2021) |
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Oct 29, 2021 · Nakate is a Ugandan climate-justice activist and founder of the Rise Up Movement. Thunberg is a Swedish climate activist and co-founder of the Fridays for Future movement.
Dear media editors around the world,
Melting glaciers, wildfires, droughts, deadly heatwaves, floods, hurricanes, loss of biodiversity. These are all symptoms of a destabilizing planet, which are happening around us all the time.
Those are the kind of things you report about. Sometimes. The climate crisis, however, is much more than just this. If you want to truly cover the climate crisis, you must also report on the fundamental issues of time, holistic thinking and justice.
So what does ... Read more ...
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Climate Chaos Helped Spark the French Revolution—and Holds a Dire Warning for Today - Time Magazine (Oct 20, 2021) |
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Oct 20, 2021 · Historians have long observed the links between the natural environment and the fate of civilization. Natural emergencies like droughts, floods and crop failure regularly plunge people into chaos. Long term changes in the earth’s climatic conditions lead flourishing societies like the Roman Empire to wither and fade. But perhaps there is no greater example of the explosive intersection of climate disruption and political upheaval than the period surrounding the French Revolution of 1789.
Starting in the mid-13th century, the northern hemisphere entered a period of prolonged cooling known as the Little Ice Age. This extended chill was not smooth and uniform, however, but ... Read more ...
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IEA Says Lots Of Progress Being Made, A Whole Lot More Progress Needed - Time Magazine (Oct 13, 2021) |
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Oct 13, 2021 · Even if you follow these things closely, it can be hard to understand where the world’s fight against climate change stands. On the one hand, news abounds of the clean energy revolution, as wind farms and solar panels pop up in communities across the globe and automakers promise to go electric. On the other hand, scientists continue to warn that fossil fuels have placed the planet and everyone who lives on it on an unavoidable collision course with catastrophe.
A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) published Wednesday explains the dynamic in sharp detail: the world has begun a momentous shift in how we power the economy that will touch virtually every ... Read more ...
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