The IPCC approved and accepted Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate at its 51st Session held on 20 – 23 September 2019. The approved Summary for policymakers (SPM) was presented at a press conference on 25 September 2019. For this Special Report, more than 100 scientists from more than 30 […]
Canada’s health organizations demand action to prevent catastrophic climate change
By Kim Perrotta In an unprecedented move, five national health organizations representing doctors, nurses, medical officers, and public health professionals gathered in Ottawa to call for urgent action to prevent catastrophic climate change on Feb. 5. It is an election year and all of our organizations — the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), the Canadian Nurses […]
Life After Warming: Trump’s Climate Denial Isn’t Just a War on Our Coastlines. It’s a War on Our Brains.
By David Wallace-Wells The list of crimes Donald Trump has committed against the planet, in just two years, is already so impeachably long that his slippery-fish climate denial registers as hardly more than a footnote. “I have a natural instinct for science,” the president bragged to the Associated Press Tuesday, a week after the U.N.’s […]
Life After Warming: UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It’s Actually Worse Than That.
By David Wallace-Wells Just two years ago, amid global fanfare, the Paris climate accords were signed — initiating what seemed, for a brief moment, like the beginning of a planet-saving movement. But almost immediately, the international goal it established of limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius began to seem, to many of the world’s […]
Two Short Essays on Our Current Predicament
Here’re two short essays on our current predicament. Well, I guess the IPCC at last has stated the Earth’s predicament succinctly for life as we know it. Quit making CO2 or in 10 or 12 years the Earth will be well on the way to bing cooked, perhaps in a run away fashion. And bad […]