Inferno
As wildfires are transformed into year-round challenges, the carbon they release only further contributes to emissions from other sources, making it that much more difficult to halt rising temperatures.
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Putting the Land Back In Climate
What if there’s another side to climate change, one less concerned with what we put in the atmosphere than what we do to the land, a side which, despite four decades of climate education, has yet to be explained to us?
Europe’s disappearing rivers illustrate multiple converging catastrophes
We no longer have the luxury of facing one catastrophe at a time. And the underlying cause is our slavish devotion to perpetual growth.
Rain, rain go away? Climate change and Death Valley’s deluge
Climate change is more about increasing extremes than one-way changes. Drought and deluge can go together as seen in Death Valley last week.
The “we’ll-just-adapt-to-climate-change” team takes drubbing
Adaptation to climate change alone is already a failed strategy.
How change happens: Lessons from Australia’s bombshell election
After nine long years of an increasingly far-right, climate change denying Liberal National Party coalition (LNP) government, the citizens of Australia voted for change.
Climate change, energy, and an unstable grid: The mainstream belatedly gets the connections
I enter summer with a sense of foreboding, not only about a simmering war in Ukraine, but also the stability of basic energy infrastructure and our ability to function if the lights, computers, and the water, sewer and gasoline pumps go out for an extended period.
Meanwhile elsewhere on planet Earth…drought and heat get a lot worse
All eyes are on Russia and Ukraine. But the calamitous changes we humans have wrought in the Earth’s climate and other major systems are making our societies more fragile by the day whether we are paying attention or not.
Fuel Poverty, the Cost of Living Crisis, and Climate Change: A Data Blog
Though often depoliticised by compartmentalising different problems, across society decisions on energy and the environment are innately tied to lifestyle and consumption.
Fossil fuels vs climate action: A not-so-hidden dilemma
We waited too long to begin the inevitable transition away from fossil fuels.
“Don’t Look Up” (part 2) – What I learned
The climate movie Don’t Look Up has a lot to teach activists, in fact anyone concerned about our future.
Climate Mitigation: ’21 into ’22
Climate wise it’s clear that as we limp from ‘21 to ‘22 those who want to protect the economy from needed climate mitigation are still firmly in control.
