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."
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a major report indicating that the world is blowing past its chances to retain control over global warming. The situation is already dire. All hope will be lost if the industrial nations do not take immediate critical action to move away from fossil fuel usage.
A new UNICEF report states that by 2050 almost all of the world's children will be exposed to high-heat wave frequency.
From the Washington Post.
Washington Post story.
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.
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.
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.
New York Times story with graphics.
Hint: It has to do with climate change.
Washington Post article detailing the animals killed in Australia's current fires.
A clear-eyed opinion piece that appeared in the NY Times.
Washington Post story about unprecedented oceanic changes.
“We’re really playing catch-up,” said marine scientist Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Canada. “Everything we base our civilization on is based on the accumulated experience from the last 7,000 years, about how the world works, and how we can survive in this world that had an exceptionally stable climate.
“And we’re shifting away from that equilibrium at breakneck speed now. We’re living in a no-analog world that none of us has any experience with.”
Around the world, over 1000 people were arrested. Washington Post story.
As experts gather at the U.N. climate talks in Poland, they are considering measures that had been previously dismissed. Carbon capture and storage is one of them.
From the Washington Post.
And the New York Times.