US Army releases its first Climate Strategy report
“Climate change threatens America’s security and is altering the geostrategic landscape as we know it. For today’s Soldiers, climate change isn’t a distant future, it is a reality.”
“Climate change threatens America’s security and is altering the geostrategic landscape as we know it. For today’s Soldiers, climate change isn’t a distant future, it is a reality.”
Some 349 plumes of methane gas are bubbling up from the bottom of the sea
A survey of 1,000 global leaders found climate and related issues as a top “risk” over short, medium and long-term time horizons.
Global temperatures in 2021 were among the highest ever observed, with 25 countries setting new annual records, according to scientists from NASA, NOAA and Berkeley Earth
Uptick is an “anomaly” driven by high natural gas prices. Shows the power of price / market incentives!
The 21st century will see more hurricanes in mid-latitude regions, which includes, e.g., New York, Boston, Beijing, and Tokyo
From MIT Review: It looks increasingly clear that we’ll at least sidestep the worst-case scenarios.
Monthly Peak for 2021 nears 420 parts per million at Mauna Loa Observatory. Nature doesn’t care about US political will.
The sea level projections for the year 2100 have been adjusted upwards again. A global rise “approaching 2 m by 2100 and 5 m by 2150 under a very high greenhouse gas emissions scenario cannot be ruled out.”
Silicon Valley VC John Doerr has published an interesting and unusual new book about it—Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now. (Much of the book is free to read on its website.)
Over the past 20 years, directors have increasingly put out movies that help viewers process a crisis of existential proportions.
This beautiful interactive, multimedia piece by the New York Times, vividly displays how climate change is impacting 193 countries. Here are some examples:
Netherlands. Skating the canals […]