The rare spots of good news on climate change
From MIT Review: It looks increasingly clear that we’ll at least sidestep the worst-case scenarios.
Climate Change
Coronavirus Response Barely Slows Rising Carbon Dioxide
Monthly Peak for 2021 nears 420 parts per million at Mauna Loa Observatory. Nature doesn’t care about US political will.
Sea level in the IPCC 6th assessment report (AR6)
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.”
A Legendary VC Has a Plan for Solving Climate Change
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.)
Here’s how filmmakers have tried to make sense of climate change
Over the past 20 years, directors have increasingly put out movies that help viewers process a crisis of existential proportions.
193 Stories
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 […]
Crucial Antarctic ice shelf could fail within five years, scientists say
Scientists have discovered a series of worrying weaknesses in the ice shelf holding back one of Antarctica’s most dangerous glaciers.
US Intelligence: These 11 countries face extreme instability from climate change
The Director of National Intelligence warned that “climate change will increasingly exacerbate risks to U.S. national security interests.”
California, Arizona and Nevada in talks on new plan to save Colorado River water
The States cut back once in 2019, but they needed to cut back even further in 2021 to keep Lake Mead from falling to dangerously low levels.
James Hansen’s Open Letter to President Biden
A powerful letter from Dr. Hansen: “The eyes of history may see 2021 as a turning point for human-made climate change. Hyperbole? Maybe not.”
COP 26: For First Time, Countries’ Pledges Could Put Warming Under Two Degrees
Want some good news? Greenhouse gas emissions pledges at COP26 imply warming or 1.9º C!
Methane and the Methane Pledge at COP26
Great summary of methane’s power as a GHG and what the “Methane Pledge” at COP 26, Glasgow, means.