Tag: climate science
Stellantis Pushes for More Pollution & Climate Idiocy in EU
Some legacy automakers will never change, it seems. Or maybe most of them won’t, but some definitely stand out as the most regressive laggards. Stellantis has certainly fit that bill for as long as I’ve been covering the auto industry. Year after year after year, automakers in the US and … [continued]
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Michael Mann To Bill Gates: What World Are You Living In?
Bill Gates pictures himself as a technology and system innovator. In October, the billionaire philanthropist recontextualized climate action, global health, and development as mutually exclusive and in competition with each other in advance of the international climate summit, COP30. With his status as one of the original Silicon Valley tech … [continued]
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Why Is 1.5°C (2.7°F) Not Just An Abstract Number For Global Warming Limits?
During the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, France, in 2015, 195 parties adopted the overarching goal to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” and pursue efforts “to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.” It’s ten years … [continued]
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Dystopian Denials Of Climate Change Don’t Change The Facts
I just finished the Kamala Harris memoir about the 2024 election, 107 Days. I come away from reading it even more unsettled than ever about the dystopian state of our democracy under President Donald J. Trump and his Project 2025 backers. Private companies and US citizens are hesitant to practice … [continued]
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Risk of Atlantic Current Collapsing Much Higher Than Previously Expected
Unsurprisingly, climate risks keep growing. However, it’s not great to hear that one of the possibilities that has concerned me the most for almost two decades is getting more likely. That is the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The AMOC brings warm water from tropical parts of … [continued]
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