Climate Change
Big Oil's efforts to swing public opinion on climate change
04/20/2022
Disturbing Frontline program "The Power of Big Oil".
Salmon stock disruptions linked to marine heat waves
03/30/2022
Researchers in Alaska are trying to understand warming ocean's consequences for salmon. Washington Post story.
Impacts of Climate Change Now Severe and Widespread, U.N. Panel Says
03/01/2022
From the Wall Street Journal.
U.N. warns of global wildfire crisis
02/25/2022
NY Times story on UN report.
Climate panel warns: Some temp increases inevitable but there's still a mitigation window
08/10/2021
"U.N. Secretary General António Guterres called the findings 'a code red for humanity'."
Links to stories in the Washington Post and New York Times.
Thawing wetlands in Siberian permafrost releasing methane from prehistoric rock
08/03/2021
Washington Post story.
Climate change threatens Chicago's drainage system
07/07/2021
A symbolic demotion for climate change
07/06/2021
President Macron of France had wanted to add to his country's constitution an amendment spelling out a commitment to protect the environment and fight climate change, but political infighting led to abandonment of the measure. From the New York Times.
Pandemic slowdown did not stop buildup of atmospheric CO2 levels
06/07/2021
Washington Post report on findings from NOAA and Scripps Institute.
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.
COVID confusion —>Climate change —>Mass migration —>Increased world conflict
04/09/2021
Quadrennial Global Trends Report of the National Intelligence Council.
It's hard to think of a headline more stark than the one in the Washington Post: "Intelligence forecast sees a post-coronavirus world upended by climate change and splintering societies."
Quadrennial "Global Trends" forecast sees bad things ahead
04/08/2021
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.
Climate risks to corporate bottom lines
03/14/2021
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.
Mediterranean red coral at risk
02/27/2021
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.
The person who employed spy satellite data to monitor climate change
01/07/2021
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.
Surprise effect of Australia's 2019-20 wildfires
12/12/2020
The wildfires acted like a volcanic eruption, slightly cooling the globe as particles blocked sunlight.
Washington Post story here.
Global warming causing changes in storm behavior
11/18/2020
How climate migration will shape America
09/15/2020
Another NY Times Magazine story on what is becoming increasingly obvious.
As two Atlantic glaciers break away, sea ice reduces and water levels rise
09/14/2020
News story in the Washington Post.