The Most Dangerous Climate Feedback Loop is Speeding Up

By Joe Romm, Climate Progress

Thawing permafrost is an especially dangerous amplifying feedback loop because the global permafrost contains twice as much carbon as the atmosphere does today .

Permafrost Thaw Unsettles the Arctic

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

Permafrost thaw and retreating Arctic ice don’t just imperil caribou and bears. People, too, may find the ground shifts beneath their feet.

2018 Was a Year of Deadly Climate Disasters and an ‘Ear Splitting Wake-Up Call’

By Sharon Kelly, DeSmog Blog

Indeed, 2018 brought some of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history — many of them linked to climate change, scientists have said.

COP24: No Response to the Crisis

By Nadja Charaby, Tadzio Müller, Socialist Project/The Bullet

The climate crisis is looming large and threatens to go beyond our capabilities. In addition, COP24 at Katowice has decided on a rulebook that in parts both lacks in substance and is unjust. The resolutions agreed are not enough to prevent disaster, by a long shot.

Once You Know

By Rachel Holman, Resilience.org

The documentary explores the devastating effect of climate change on our world, and our collective resilience in the face of its collapse. A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to complete the film, which is in the final stages of production.

Is Climate Change Taking the Food from Our Mouths?

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

Tis the seaso‘n when food is on most of our minds. What if next year or the year after some of that food was no longer available or even edible?

Trump – the Climate’s Secret Champion?

By Kevin Anderson, Kevin Anderson blog

Cut away the economic niceties and the social cost of carbon is little more than an attempt by a particular hue of economists to put a price on the global scale impacts of climate change from now, throughout this century, and on across centuries to come.

We Broke Down what Climate Change will Do, Region by Region

By Grist staff, Grist

Here’s the thing: Not all regions in the U.S. are going to experience climate change in the same way. Your backyard might suffer different climate consequences than my backyard. And, let’s be honest, we need to know what’s happening in our respective spaces so we can be prepared.

It’s Not the Economy, Stupid. Here’s why Focusing on Money Misses the Big Climate Picture.

By Eric Holthaus, Grist

Money just isn’t the appropriate frame when we’re talking about the planet. Climate change is a special problem that traditional economic analyses aren’t built to handle.

Entire Cities Evacuate as Hellish Wildfires Whip through California

By Eric Holthaus, Grist

A trio of rapidly expanding wildfires are burning in California, marking the latest in a string of harrowing climate-related disasters in America.