The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof
04/19/2021
New York Times article laying it out for the climate-change-hesitant.
New York Times article laying it out for the climate-change-hesitant.
The National Intelligence Council released a report predicting that the pandemic, along with climate change leading to mass migration, will be highly destabilizing over the coming two decades.
Washington Post story here.
Interesting Wall Street Journal article discussing pressure on companies to disclose climate-related risks to their investors.
“The big blind spot is the physical risk of climate change,” said David Victor, professor at the University of California, San Diego and co-author of the Brookings paper. He added that very few companies disclose specific risks, or what they are doing to mitigate their vulnerabilities.
The red coral of the Mediterranean, critical to the region's ecosystem, is threatened by illegal coral harvesting as well as by heat waves. Story in The Atlantic magazine.
Interesting New York Times story about Dr. Linda Zall, a CIA employee who used data from spy satellites to identify planetary change and to consider how it was likely to affect global security.
The monarch population has fallen by 75% percent in the past three decades. Although monarchs qualify for protection under the Endangered Species Act, federal officials say budgetary constraints cause them to ignore the butterfly in favor of higher-priority endangered species. NY Times story here.
Organizations around the country are working to save the monarch butterfly. Here are links to a few: Monarch Watch, Save Our Monarchs Foundation,and the Environmental Defense Fund.
The wildfires acted like a volcanic eruption, slightly cooling the globe as particles blocked sunlight.
Washington Post story here.
Another NY Times Magazine story on what is becoming increasingly obvious.
News story in the Washington Post.
Washington Post story: "Heat Is turbocharging fires, drought, and tropical storms this summer."
Sourced from NOAA data files. Find it here, with further analysis here.
New York Times story with graphics.
New York Times story.
From the Washington Post. But the reduction is seen as a temporary "drop in the bucket".
New York Times: Scientists warn that within half a century large portions of the world's population could be living in extreme heat zones. Would the result be climate migration?
From the New York Times.