The climate change evidence right before our eyes. And a note on COVID-19
The "deny this" approach to climate change persuasion.
Magazine
May 2020
Cover design by Thomas Gaulkin.
In this issue, we focus on the undeniable physical impacts of a changing climate and why that physical evidence can’t reasonably be explained, except as a result of warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
Features
Peter Davis of the British Antarctic Survey on changes in the Thwaites Glacier
A top oceanographer describes the obstacles that must be overcome to get data on climate change from the front lines.
Brian Brettschneider: How climate change has already arrived in the Arctic
An International Arctic Research Center scientist describes record-low sea ice, unprecedented wildfires, and altered tree lines, glaciers, and vegetation.
Shorter, warmer winters, less snow. What next? Q&A with biologist Pamela Templer
The record is clear: more rapid freeze-and-thaw cycles, less carbon retention by the soil, less forest productivity, more damage to tree roots, and fewer New England sugar maples
How we know the Earth is warming and humans are responsible
A summary of the evidence underlying what has been described as a “knowledge-based consensus.”
Sea level rise and beyond: Is the US military prepared for climate change?
How climate change has already played economic and physical havoc with US military bases
Reaching for the stars: The case for cooperative governance of directed energy technologies
Privately funded Breakthrough Starshot is already working on a laser propulsion system to carry nanosatellite Star Chips to the nearest star system
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