The climate crisis has arrived at the epicentre of the global political agenda and the EU aspires to have a leading role in the efforts to deal with global warming. Along with EU climate action, the number of climate-related court cases on the European landscape, both at regional and ...
leading to sluggish sea level forecasts that are lulling policymakers into a false sense of security. We’ve come a long way since the first IPCC reports in the early 1990s, which treated polar ice sheets as completely static entities, but we’re still short of capturing...
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All these changes may make the ocean water less likely to circulate between sectors, and ocean circulation has been important in leveling the earth’s temperature. If it slows, hot areas would get torrid and cold ares could go to freezing in the short run, though of course in the long ter...
Why? Because the Hawaii government’s short-sighted incompetence contributed to the deadly fire on the island of Maui. TheWall Street Journalopinedabout its deadly blunders, most of which were driven byclimate alarmism. …one culprit that seems to be emerging is the tradeoff the local utility ...
Staying warm, or even alive, takes priority over tedious climate dogma. Energy policy related to electricity generation is exposed as pitifully inadequate when the wind dies down and the days are short. The demise of cold spells in winter has been greatly exaggerated. ...
While a profound change is necessary, what we see in plans to fight the climate crisis is a techno-optimistic position, centred on an unlimited belief in human power and ingenuity, neglecting the rather short timeframe, we have to reverse the path we are on. A full lifestyle and socio-ec...
In the letter, she congratulates the recipients on being elected to office and asks them if they will, “…do everything you must to fight the climate crisis?” She explains how climate change disproportionately affects women and girls in her country and asks, “… are you on our side?”...
Within just a week, the sheer devastation of the Los Angeles wildfires has pushed to the fore fundamental questions about the impact of the climate crisis that have been largely avoided by lawmakers, influencers and the public. Among them: What is the future of insurance when people’s homes...
Alas, it would be a short-term solution, obsolete before completed. A struggling world might think it smarter spend on adaptation efforts. But with sealed borders to India, future climate refugees would be trapped and the number of victims difficult to count. This may be the typical crisis ...