Tag: climate change
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Southeast Australia has been getting hotter and drier. Droughts have lengthened, and temperatures regularly soar above 95 degrees F (35 degrees C). Bush fires abound. But somehow, its woodlands keep… more ›
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When these things happen, we still call them “natural disasters.” But that’s not right. If we want to understand the landscape of brittleness that surrounds us, we must acknowledge that… more ›
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Officially, of course, the Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1, But most years, the tropics remain fairly sleepy for the first month or two, allowing coastal residents to ease… more ›
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Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C (4.5F) this century, blasting past internationally agreed targets and causing catastrophic consequences for humanity… more ›
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By a quirk of geography, the Orkney islands, located off the northern tip of Scotland, are unusually well positioned to bear witness to the ocean’s might. On the archipelago’s western… more ›
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“Rebuilding our cities, rendered imperative by a delayed response to climate change, will require a radically altered approach to managing flooding, to lessening heat exposure and to coping with drought… more ›
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Why do we keep rebuilding (and subsidizing) areas that are all but certain to flood again, to burn again, to fall into the ocean? It’s time to rethink climate adaptation,… more ›
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The German teen is the newest face of the Heartland Institute’s effort to promote what it calls ‘global warming realism.’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/02/23/meet-anti-greta-young-youtuber-campaigning-against-climate-alarmism/ more ›
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Welcome to the second part of my two-part article exploring the bull and bear cases for the net-zero transition. In September last year, I laid out the bear case, highlighting… more ›