Article in The Atlantic.
Report follows the UN Climate Change COP27 summit in Egypt: "Many experts believe that the progress necessary to repair a warming world will be extremely difficult, and perhaps impossible, without close collaboration between these two great powers."
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.
Washington Post report on findings from NOAA and Scripps Institute.
New York Times article laying it out for the climate-change-hesitant.
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."
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 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".