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What We're Reading
11 July 2017
Climate Change

The perils of maximal climate dystopia

Lucien Crowder

If anyone gave out an award for writing the most alarmist article about climate change, we would have our winner.

What We're Reading
6 July 2017
Climate Change
Europe/Russia

China, Germany step up as US retires from world leadership

Dan Drollette Jr

China and Germany will take the lead roles traditionally held by the United States

What We're Reading
6 July 2017
Climate ChangeNuclear WeaponsSpecial Topics
Americas

Noam Chomsky: On Trump and the State of the Union

Dan Drollette Jr

The most important issues to address are the truly existential threats we face: climate change and nuclear war

4 July 2017

Nuclear foreboding: Shadows cast by nuclear winter

R. Turco

The recollections and reflections of a nuclear winter scientist on the future threat of warfare involving atomic weaponry.

4 July 2017

Introduction: Into the aftermath

John Mecklin

In the age of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the possible use of nuclear weapons has, horrifyingly, crawled from the dustbin of history.

Analysis
3 July 2017
Climate ChangeNuclear WeaponsSpecial Topics
Americas

On the first July 4 of the Trump era, a declaration

John Mecklin

Let facts be submitted to a candid world, that its citizens may hold Donald J. Trump to account, in the courts of public opinion and relentless satire, for the endangerment of humanity:

Analysis
29 June 2017
Climate Change
Americas

Trump fact check: Climate policy benefits vastly exceed costs

Dana Nuccitelli

There’s no reason why we can’t craft smart climate policies with tremendous economic benefits that also preserve the climate of the only planet we’ve got.

Analysis
23 June 2017
Climate Change

The trouble with geoengineers “hacking the planet”

Raymond T. Pierrehumbert

Despite all the hype, geoengineering would not be simple or easy, or a one-time solution, or buy us any time. Instead, geoengineering would be a difficult undertaking that humanity would have to commit to essentially forever—and still not fix the underlying problem. Assuming it even works.

What We're Reading
19 June 2017
Climate Change
Europe/Russia

EU deepening ties with climate pact members after US withdraws

Dan Drollette Jr
What We're Reading
9 June 2017
Climate Change
Americas

When rising seas transform risk into certainty

Dan Drollette Jr
What We're Reading
9 June 2017
Climate Change
Americas

Cows, climate, and Canadian ingenuity

Lucien Crowder

Climate mitigation efforts may increasingly rely on designer bull semen.

What We're Reading
7 June 2017
Climate Change
Americas

MIT says Trump misused its research in ditching climate deal

Dan Drollette Jr
What We're Reading
5 June 2017
Climate Change
Americas

200+ mayors, 10 governors counter Trump's exit from Paris Agreement

Dan Drollette Jr
What We're Reading
2 June 2017
Climate Change
Americas

Trump pulls US out of climate accord

Dan Drollette Jr

What does the pull-out from a signed international treaty mean, and how could it be done?

Analysis
2 June 2017
Climate Change
Americas

The experts on Trump's climate decision

John Mecklin

A collection of commentary on President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change

What We're Reading
2 June 2017
Climate Change
Americas

The best of the worldwide reaction, the morning after Trump's decision

Dan Drollette Jr

Like so much that involves Trump, there’s plenty of material to choose from.

Analysis
25 May 2017
Climate Change
Middle East

NATO joins the Pentagon in deeming climate change a threat multiplier

Dana Nuccitelli

A new NATO special report concludes that climate change will make things worse in the world's most unstable regions.

What We're Reading
24 May 2017
Climate Change
Europe/Russia

Catholic groups ramp up international divestment momentum

Dan Drollette Jr
Analysis
23 May 2017
Climate Change
AmericasAsia

Clean energy and rare earths: Why not to worry

Amory Lovins

Some claim that shortages of rare earth minerals, or China’s near-monopoly over rare earths, could inhibit the West’s shift to renewable energy. It's just a long-standing myth.

What We're Reading
22 May 2017
Climate Change

Green energy’s battery explosion

Lucien Crowder

Soon, electric vehicles will be cheaper than fuel-burning models. Or maybe even sooner.

4 May 2017
Interview

Paul Hawken: “Game on” for global warming

Dawn Stover

In this interview, environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author Paul Hawken discusses Project Drawdown, “the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming.” Hawken, who leads the project and edited the just-published book Drawdown, explains why his team felt it necessary to create

What We're Reading
1 May 2017
Climate Change
Americas

A columnist walks into a climate fight

John Mecklin

Bret Stephens made his debut with “Climate of Complete Certainty,” a column that danced the border between belief and disbelief in climate science in a way that seemed almost designed to elicit outrage.

What We're Reading
29 April 2017
Climate Change
Americas

EPA buries inconvenient climate information

Dawn Stover

Climate information contradicting Trump administration polices is being purged from the EPA website.

Voices of Tomorrow
25 April 2017
BiosecurityClimate ChangeNuclear Weapons
Americas

A march through time: Historical perspective on the March for Science

Ingrid Ockert

A young historian of science reflects on the likely legacy of the March for Science.

Columnists
21 April 2017
Climate Change
Americas

What the Trump administration doesn't understand about clean air

Dawn Stover

Global warming is not a theory. It’s air pollution, plain and simple.

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