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The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes our Brains by Clayton Page Aldern
From the book review in Kirkus Reviews: “A lyrical and scientifically rigorous account of the emotional and physical toll climate change is taking on the human brain. This is your brain on climate change. In his second book, neuroscientist and environmental journalist Aldern examines the palpable effects of climate change on our brain chemistry, including…
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UN Panel on Climate Change says earth close to passing point of no-return on catastrophic global warming
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. Washington Post…
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With deterioration of U.S. – China relationship come dangers for climate change
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."
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Within three decades, most of the world’s children will live with frequent heat waves
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.
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Thawing wetlands in Siberian permafrost releasing methane from prehistoric rock
Washington Post story.
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A symbolic demotion for climate change
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.
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COVID confusion —>Climate change —>Mass migration —>Increased world conflict
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."
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Quadrennial “Global Trends” forecast sees bad things ahead
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.
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Climate risks to corporate bottom lines
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…
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The person who employed spy satellite data to monitor climate change
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.
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Why the Mediterranean fires have been so intense
Hint: It has to do with climate change. New York Times article.
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Australia wildfires increasing extinctions
Washington Post article detailing the animals killed in Australia's current fires.
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As fires rage in Australia, leaders double down
A clear-eyed opinion piece that appeared in the NY Times.
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A “hot zone” off of Uruguay
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…
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UN report concludes that changing climate imperils world’s food supply
Washington Post New York Times
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“Extinction rebellion” protests against climate change
Around the world, over 1000 people were arrested. Washington Post story.
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Climate experts concluding that carbon capture and storage will be a necessity
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. Story in the Washington Post.
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