Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Ellen Wald writes that Canadian oil companies would be smart to be prepared to answer for their environmental and human rights abuses. But Carly…
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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- John Woodside reports on the pitiful excuse for climate finance advanced by developed countries at COP29. Kate Dooley highlights how the carbon trading…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Whizy Kim writes about the rise of the overt use of wealth and associated fame to overwhelm the U.S.' political system. Jason Sattler discusses…
Planet Earth in need of palliative care?
A knowledgeable friend believes that we have passed a threshold, beyond which our world will suffer irreversible changes in the climate system. He says Planet Earth now needs palliative care...
Only When It is Darkest Out Can You See the Stars
These are my summary notes from this excellent podcast from Andrea Pitzer on Next Comes What, "How We Survive This Mess." Pitzer previous wrote a history of concentration camps, One…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Sarah Johnson reports on Unicef's warning that children will face far more extreme heatwaves and other dangerous weather events in the decades to…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Oliver Milman reports on the warning from climate scientists that humanity has already missed the window to limit global warming to the agreed…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jeremy Appel reports on John Vailliant's warning about Alberta's addiction to oil which the UCP is looking to exacerbate. And James Wilt interviews Adam…
DeBriefed
DeBriefed is a weekly newsletter from Carbon Brief, a UK based website that publishes the work of journalists and academics. The focus is on the effects of climate change and…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- The University of California, Irvine examines the connection between air pollution and spontaneous preterm births. And Attracta Mooney and Jana Tauschinski discuss how the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Ajit Niranjan reports on Climate Action Tracker's latest assessment that we're making minimal progress toward any climate commitments, while Damian Carrington reports on…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Fiona Harvey, Damian Carrington, Ajit Niranjan and Dharna Noor report on Antonio Guterres' warning to the COP29 climate conference that 2024 has been a…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- The Guardian's This is Climate Breakdown series offers first-hand accounts of the current catastrophes arising out of the climate crisis. And Michael Mann…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- The Climate Historian writes that COP climate change conferences are now far more a matter of theatre than of action. Justin Rowlatt reports…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Michael Harris offers some lessons about the U.S.' values based on this week's election results. Rebecca Solnit opines that the largest failing of American…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Martha Gill offers a reminder that the stakes of any climate change policy are nothing less than our ultimate survival. And Julia Musto…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Pep Canadell and Gustaf Hegelius examine the carbon emissions from melting Arctic permafrost - finding that the near-term effects based on the release…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Mark Harris examines the competing pressures which will determine how a climate breakdown in progress affects our food supply, while Fiona Harvey discusses how…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Saul Elbein discusses the many ways in which the climate breakdown is affecting communities facing far more severe weather events than they've ever experienced…