Climate Change
In a sense, climate change is an opportunity for us to step up—to grow up—as a species.- Emma Marris
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Why we’ll succeed in saving the planet from climate change
My mother’s brown hair is long and parted in the center. She is sewing a eucalyptus seedpod to a dress made of pale green drapery fabric, laughing with her friends. She is 19 years old.
It is February 1970, a few months before the first Earth Day, and students at San Jose State College in California are throwing a “Survival Faire,” during which they plan to bury a brand-new yellow Ford Maverick. The Maverick and all combustion engines are to be declared dead because they belch pollutants that have helped create vile, ground-hugging smog in San Jose and cities around the world. The Maverick, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery wrote,…
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The Paris Climate Agreement
The 2015 UN climate conference in Paris (COP21) opened with the largest gathering of world leaders in history, and closed with adoption of the Paris Agreement, a new global accord on tackling climate change. The Agreement marks the first time that virtually every country on Earth has pledged to constrain its greenhouse gas emissions with a view to keeping global warming since pre-industrial times below the commonly-used ‘danger threshold’ of 2 Celsius.
The foods that reverse climate change
The way we produce food has accelerated climate change, but can sustainable production methods help to reverse it?
How Earth’s Climate Changes Naturally (and Why Things Are Different Now)
arth’s climate has fluctuated through deep time, pushed by these 10 different causes. Here’s how each compares with modern climate change.
How the coronavirus has impacted climate change – for good and bad
Global warming has become a forgotten crisis during the coronavirus pandemic. But a year that has set worrying climate records also shows how we can remake the world for the better
Climate Change Is Accelerating, Bringing World 'Dangerously Close' to Irreversible Change
Climate change and its effects are accelerating, with climate related disasters piling up, season after season.
Protecting half of the planet is the best way to fight climate change and biodiversity loss – we’ve mapped the key places to do it
The Global Deal for Nature provided a framework for the milestones, targets and policies across terrestrial, freshwater and marine realms required to conserve the vast majority of life on Earth. Yet it didn’t specify where exactly these safeguards were needed. That’s where the new Global Safety Net comes in.
The law that could make climate change illegal
One of the most robust laws on climate change yet has been created in Denmark. Can legislation really make failing to act on climate change illegal?
The tipping points at the heart of the climate crisis
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions is not a surprising or original solution. But it is our best chance to stop the warning signs flashing red.
Big Tech Versus Climate Change
How tech companies and all of us can help slow global warming.
Can Our Culture Survive Climate Change?
My community is close to the Buriticupu River. Unlike other rivers in the areas, its waters still run clean, but it’s drying out because of climate change and deforestation.
Climate change is affecting health now. Our leaders must take action
We aren’t alone in sounding the alarms of the medical community. Global warming has activated physicians to speak out about how it is affecting their patients. The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, an organization of 22 major medical societies representing more than half the nation’s doctors, along with many other medical groups, are working to alert Americans to the harm from climate change.
Has the world started to take climate change fight seriously?
You probably missed the most important announcement on tackling climate change in years. It was made at the UN General Assembly. It wasn't the big commitment to protect biodiversity or anything to do with the discussion about how to tackle the coronavirus pandemic - vitally important though these issues are.
How can we talk about heatwaves without mentioning climate change?
We aren’t going to find the solution to humanity’s greatest challenge without acknowledging the problem and its sheer scale.
The Arctic is in a death spiral. How much longer will it exist?
The region is unravelling faster than anyone could once have predicted. But there may still be time to act.
The future has arrived. These explosive fires are our climate change wakeup call
Scientists have been warning of the growing threat of climate change, and now those projections are a reality.
What Are The Costs Of Climate Change?
More frequent and severe wildfires and hurricanes have caused billions of dollars of damage in the U.S. Climate experts warn the costs to the economy and to individual families are only rising.
What Climate Change Does to the Human Body
The climate crisis is a public health issue, and we must start healing the planet in order to heal each other. Fighting against the climate crisis is one of the most patriotic things we can do right now; it will protect our health and the health of our neighbors across the country and the globe, and will allow all of us to live on this planet, the only home we have.
What has COVID-19 taught us about flattening the climate curve?
If we had known exactly what was coming a year ahead of the COVID-19 outbreak, would we have accepted that our virus testing or vaccine production capacity remains unchanged? How, then, can we tolerate the current state of affairs with regards to climate policies?
What’s Green, Soggy and Fights Climate Change?
You might be surprised: Protecting peat bogs could help the world avert the worst effects of global warming, a new study has found.
A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets
The Global Deal for Nature (GDN) is a time-bound, science-driven plan to save the diversity and abundance of life on Earth. Pairing the GDN and the Paris Climate Agreement would avoid catastrophic climate change, conserve species, and secure essential ecosystem services.
No Straws: Why Seemingly Trivial Efforts Matter in Addressing Our Most Serious Problem
Eliminating single-use plastic products has become a cause célèbre over the past few years, but some in the environmental community complain it's a distraction from the bigger issues. Here's why they're wrong.
Volcanoes show why solar geoengineering can’t save our food from climate change
Scattering aerosols in the sky would cool the planet, but it would block crucial sunlight for plants.
Why Climate Change Poses A Particular Threat To Child Health
When it comes to global health, the world has made remarkable strides over the past two decades. There has been unprecedented progress vaccinating kids, treating diseases and lifting millions out of poverty. The childhood death rate has been slashed in half since 2000. Adults are living an average 5 1/2 years longer. Now scientists say these successes are under serious threat from climate change. The warning comes in a sweeping new study in the journal The Lancet. It's the latest in an annual — and evolving — effort by researchers from more than a dozen universities as well as the World Health Organization to track the health impacts of climate change.
Yes, humans are causing climate change...
The Charney report... Although we now have hard proof—one-in-3.5 million chance-of-error certainty, known as five sigma certainty, which is about as close as science gets to a sure thing—of warming as a phenomena, a report released in 1979 "understood most of what was going to happen subsequently," Santer says.
'We Need an Energy Miracle’
Bill Gates has committed his fortune to moving the world beyond fossil fuels and mitigating climate change.
A ‘Third Way’ to Fight Climate Change
Two options for dealing with climate change — reducing greenhouse gas emissions through a global agreement, and geoengineering proposals such as injecting sulfur into the stratosphere — tend to dominate current thinking. But there is a “third way” that is almost entirely neglected in political negotiations and public debate. It involves capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it or using it to create things we need. Because of the scale of the climate problem, I believe that in coming decades third-way technologies will become a major focus of activity.
Are Volcanoes or Humans Harder on the Atmosphere?
Does one major volcanic eruption generate more climate-altering gas than that produced by humans in their entire history?
Climate Change Is Bad for Your Health
Climate change has largely been defined as an environmental issue, with the worst effects decades or centuries away. But a sobering new report from a commission convened by the medical journal The Lancet, released Monday evening, could change that assessment. The new report says that climate change is already harming human health on a vast scale.
Climate Science Is Not Settled
We are very far from the knowledge needed to make good climate policy, writes leading scientist Steven E. Koonin
Climate-Induced Migration: A Looming Crisis
Climate change is an immense and multifaceted global challenge, likely to change the planet we call home and our very way of life. In some of the most industrialized settings in the world as well as in the most vulnerable areas, people may find they can no longer live in places they have called home for generations.
Do You Believe in Mind Control or Climate Change?
I recently wrote about geoengineering as a strategy to deal with climate change and carbon dioxide emissions. That drew comments from people who confuse this scientific process with the unscientific theory of "chemtrails." Some also claimed the column supported geoengineering, which it didn't.
GeoMedicine - OK, Maybe We Should Move!
GeoMedicine will probably serve as a catalyst for future human migration from one part of the globe to another in the quest for minimizing personal health risks. And, it may be sooner than you think!
Global Warming, Explained
The world is getting hotter, and humans are responsible. That's the short version. When people say global warming, they're typically referring to the rise in average temperature of the Earth's climate system since the late 19th century.
It Is a Time to Talk About Climate Change
Those who want to lend a hand stand to do much good by acknowledging that climate change is occurring.
Maintaining a Healthy Balance of Fair and Balanced
Not all opinions are created equal. So why do news media so often go out of their way to place those hocking scientifically unsupported fringe beliefs on the same footing as those espousing the near unanimity of the scientific community?
Our Rising Oceans
VICE founder Shane Smith travels to the bottom of the world to investigate the instability of the West Antarctic ice sheet and to see first hand how the continent is melting -- and VICE follows the rising oceans to Bangladesh for a glimpse into the world's underwater future. From the UN Climate conference to the People's Climate March to the forces that deny the science of global climate change, this special extended episode covers all sides of the issue and all corners of the globe, ending with a special interview with Vice President Joe Biden.
Prehistoric clues put greenhouse accomplices in dock
Fifty million years ago, temperatures soared to unprecedented levels and the seas became a staggering 12C hotter than today. But researchers have found this massive warming had little to do with carbon dioxide, the main cause of today's climate changes. The trigger was instead rising levels of methane, ozone and nitrous oxide, gases that are accorded relatively scant attention by current climate treaties.
The diet that helps fight climate change
Do we all have to go vegan to save the world?
The Science of Irresponsibility: Why Even Republicans Shouldn't Stand for Playing Politics with Science
Very few scientists are Republicans. And it's no wonder when you consider how Republican lawmakers are walking and talking when it comes to science. But while this may be politics as usual, it's no good for any of us—including Republicans themselves.
Time for Plain Talk about Particulate Matter
Might the result of one particle—or a dozen, or a hundred—be negligible in relation to human health? Sure. But put enough particles out there, and things change.
Trump’s war on climate policy is also a war on public health
Obama’s Clean Power Plan would have averted asthma attacks. Trump wants to undo it.
Why Tom Steyer's latest fight against climate change involves raising his own cattle
Tom Steyer’s crusade to force politicians to confront climate change is well known, manifesting itself in millions of dollars of campaign funding, including the windfall he raised for Hillary Rodham Clinton recently in his San Francisco home. Less well known is the billionaire’s crusade to force farmers to confront it.
Why we’ll succeed in saving the planet from climate change
Why we’ll succeed in saving the planet from climate change. In a sense, climate change is an opportunity for us to step up—to grow up—as a species.
11,000 scientists warn: climate change isn’t just about temperature
This is the largest number of scientists to explicitly support a publication calling for climate action. They come from many different fields, reflecting the harm our changing climate is doing to every part of the natural world.
40 years ago, scientists predicted climate change. And hey, they were right
Forty years ago, a group of climate scientists sat down at Woods Hole in Massachusetts for the first meeting of the “Ad Hoc Group on Carbon Dioxide and Climate”. It led to the preparation of what became known as the Charney Report – the first comprehensive assessment of global climate change due to carbon dioxide.
9 questions about climate change you were too embarrassed to ask
Climate change and global warming, not to mention the Paris agreement, are oft-misconstrued issues. Here are the most basic answers to basic questions about them.
Climate Action Tracker
The Climate Action Tracker (CAT) is an independent scientific analysis produced by two research organisations tracking climate action since 2009. We track progress towards the globally agreed aim of holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.
Climate Communication
Climate Communication is a non-profit science and outreach project supported by grants, including from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Climate Communication operates as a project of the Aspen Global Change Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the scientific understanding of Earth systems and global environmental change.
Climate Conservative
The Climate Conservative is a website dedicated to looking at the issue of climate change through the lens of genuine traditionalist conservatism. This is the original conservatism–articulated by the likes of Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, Richard Weaver and T.S. Eliot–that promotes time-tested virtues such as prudence, humility, reverence, duty, compassion and stewardship.
ClimateChange.net
Internationally recognized for research, policy analysis and outreach in climate change, Dr. Stephen H. Schneider focused on climate change science, integrated assessment of ecological and economic impacts of human-induced climate change, and identifying viable climate policies and technological solutions.
ClimatePath
We believe fighting global warming is the most important issue of our time. Do your part by reducing your carbon footprint, and offset the rest while supporting projects that create the change you want to see in the world.
ClimatePrediction.net
Climateprediction.net is a climate modelling project that uses people's home computers to answer questions about how climate change is affecting our world.
ClimateSight
Kaitlin Alexander is a PhD student in climate science at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She became interested in climate science as a teenager on the Canadian Prairies, and increasingly began to notice the discrepancies between scientific and public knowledge on climate change. She started writing this blog at age sixteen to help address this gap in public understanding, and it slowly evolved into a record of her research as a young climate scientist.
Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit
The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit is a non-profit organisation that supports informed debate on energy and climate change issues in the UK. Climate change presents important challenges and opportunities to Britons in the decades ahead, while the choices we make on energy have implications for society, the economy and the climate system. We believe that debates on these issues should be underpinned by evidence, and involve the full range of stakeholders.
Friends of Science
Providing insight into climate change.
Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
The mission of “Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet” is to provide the public with accurate and timely news and information about Earth’s changing climate, along with current data and visualizations, presented from the unique perspective of NASA, the world’s leading climate research agency.
Inside Climate News
A Pulitzer Prize-winning, non-profit, non-partisan news organization dedicated to covering climate change, energy and the environment.
Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health
A consortium of the nation’s doctors speaking out about climate change and health.
My View on Climate Change
Bart Verheggen's weblog on climate change issues.
Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change
The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) is an international panel of nongovernment scientists and scholars who have come together to present a comprehensive, authoritative, and realistic assessment of the science and economics of global warming.
Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions
The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) pulls together the intellectual capital of the province into a dynamic knowledge network that integrates multi-disciplinary approaches to climate change.
RealClimate
RealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. We aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. The discussion here is restricted to scientific topics and will not get involved in any political or economic implications of the science.
The Australian Climate Sceptics
Exposing the flaws in the greatest hoax inflicted on the human race.
The Climate Reality Project
Today, we know climate disruption is the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced. And we know carbon pollution is to blame. But at Climate Reality, we also know that solutions are right in front of us. We can create a healthy, sustainable, and prosperous future by making a global shift from dirty fossil fuels to clean, renewable energies like solar and wind.
The Eco Guide
Stop feeling helpless, start fighting climate change today.
World View of Global Warming
World View of Global Warming, which began in 1999 with an assignment to Antarctica, is the only dedicated climate change science and action documentation project independently undertaken by a photojournalist. It is funded by donations, grants, image and book sales and assignments; donations and grants are accepted as tax-deductible contributions through Blue Earth Alliance which passes through 96 percent of all funds.
Yale Climate Connections
Yale Climate Connections, previously The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media, is an independent, nonpartisan, multimedia climate news and information service that provides original reporting, commentary, and analysis on the issue of climate change, one of the greatest challenges and stories of our time.
…and Then There's Physics
Trying – and sometimes failing – to keep the discussion
350.org
We believe in a safe climate and a better future — a just, prosperous, and equitable world built with the power of ordinary people. Help us get there!
Blue Earth
Blue Earth believes documentary photography can inspire positive change. We support visual storytelling on critical environmental and social issues through direct assistance to photographers and a collaborative community of professionals.
Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief reports on the latest developments and media coverage of climate science and energy policy, with a particular focus on the UK. We produce news coverage, analysis and factchecks, and publish a daily and weekly email briefing.
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Welcome to C2ES – the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions – an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to advance strong policy and action to address the twin challenges of energy and climate change.
ClimateChangeEducation.org
Climate Change, Global Warming, and related topics.
Conservation.org
Climate change is reshaping human civilization. How we respond will determine the future of our species.
DeSmogBlog
The DeSmogBlog Project began in January 2006 and quickly became the world’s number one source for accurate, fact based information regarding global warming misinformation campaigns. TIME Magazine named DeSmogBlog in its “25 Best Blogs of 2011” list.
Global Oneness Project
Learn how climate change is impacting individuals, communities, and other resources on the planet.
Hot Topic
Global warming and the future of New Zealand.
Maribo
The goal of this site is to maintain an open conversation about climate and global change. It is named after a Kiribati word describing the waves that crash over the reefs protecting their low-lying Central Pacific atolls from the sea.
Mark Lynas
Mark Lynas is the author of several books on the environment, including High Tide, Six Degrees, and The God Species. His most recent publication, in July 2013, was the Kindle Single ebook Nuclear 2.0: Why a green future needs nuclear power. He is a frequent speaker around the world on climate change, biotechnology and nuclear power, and was climate change advisor to the President of the Maldives between 2009 and 2011.
Open Mind
Science, Politics, Life, the Universe, and Everything.
The Heat Is Online
www.HeatIsOnline.org provides daily updates of scientific findings, political and economic impacts and the increasingly frequent extreme weather events...
Think Global Green
An educational service informing on the causes and solution for global warming.
Union of Concerned Scientists
The world's countries contribute different amounts of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. The table below shows data compiled by the Energy Information Agency (Department of Energy), which estimates carbon dioxide emissions from all sources of fossil fuel burning and consumption. Here we list the 20 countries with the highest carbon dioxide emissions.
World Resources Institute
WRI’s mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations.
A crash course on climate change, 50 years after the first Earth Day
The science is clear: The world is warming dangerously, humans are the cause of it, and a failure to act today will deeply affect the future of the Earth.
AccuWeather
Blog with links to the latest research, commentary by experts with various points of view on all aspects of global climate change
Arctic News
The Arctic-News Blog describes the situation in the Arctic, focusing especially on the threat of large abrupt methane eruptions from the Arctic Ocean seafloor. Contributors to the blog all share a deep concern about the way climate change is unfolding in the Arctic and the threat that this poses for the world at large.
Arctic Sea Ice Blog
Interesting news and data.
EPA
The Earth's climate is changing. Temperatures are rising, snow and rainfall patterns are shifting, and more extreme climate events – like heavy rainstorms and record high temperatures – are already happening. Many of these observed changes are linked to the rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, caused by human activities. EPA partners with more than 40 data contributors from various government agencies, academic institutions, and other organizations to compile a key set of indicators related to the causes and effects of climate change.
NextGen America
NextGen America acts politically to prevent climate disaster, promote prosperity, and protect the fundamental rights of every American.
NOAA
NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is responsible for preserving, monitoring, assessing, and providing public access to the Nation's treasure of climate and historical weather data and information.
SciDevNet
Bringing science and development together through original news and analysis.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
A department of UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography is one of the oldest, largest, and most important centers for ocean, earth and atmospheric science research, education, and public service in the world.
Skeptical Science
Explaining climate change science & rebutting global warming misinformation Scientific skepticism is healthy. Scientists should always challenge themselves to improve their understanding. Yet this isn't what happens with climate change denial. Skeptics vigorously criticise any evidence that supports man-made global warming and yet embrace any argument, op-ed, blog or study that purports to refute global warming. This website gets skeptical about global warming skepticism. Do their arguments have any scientific basis? What does the peer reviewed scientific literature say?
The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor is an independent international news organization that delivers thoughtful, global coverage. We want to inspire people to think about what they've read long after they've left the page. To share what they've learned with others. And to do something that makes a difference.
The Weather Channel
Daily weather news, tidbits, video and alerts from The Weather Channel.
Weather Underground
Weather Underground has challenged the conventions around how weather information is shared with the public since 1993. We're immensely proud of the unique products that our community and meteorologists have created to improve people's access to meaningful weather data from around the globe. As the Internet's 1st weather service, we consider ourselves pioneers within our field and we're constantly seeking new data sets and the next technologies that will help us share more data with more people.
World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It is the UN system's authoritative voice on the state and behaviour of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans, the climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.
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