Capturing Climate Change – IEEE Spectrum
This is part of IEEE Spectrum’s special report: Critical Challenges 2002: Technology Takes On The government of Tuvalu, a Pacific Island nation, made a plea last summer for countries to take in Tuvalu evacuees, fearing a rising sea level will…
Fiddling while Rome burns: climate change and international relations | OUPblog – OUPblog
It is Wednesday morning, my wife and kids have left for work and school and I am sitting in my home office, which has a beautiful view of the Gudenå river valley. I have the whole day to myself, no teaching, no…
What’s the difference between 1.5 and 2 degrees of global warming? – The European Sting
(Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Sean Fleming, Senior Writer, Formative Content The risks to our climate of a rise in global temperatures of 2C over pre-industrial…
How China’s Communist Party Is Stoking Climate Alarmism At Elite Colleges
Imagine if your primary opponent in the world, a country that regularly steals high-tech military, industrial and medical secrets from you, was able to influence research in your universities solely for their benefit. Unless you had a national death wish,…
Russiaâs Nauka module en route to ISS
Russia’s Nauka module reportedly had some issues after reaching orbiting. It’s due to dock with the International Space Station on July 29.
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The Only Way to Stop Global Warming – Modern Diplomacy
One way exists to stop global warming, but the mutual feedback cycles that are now accelerating global warming might already have achieved enough speed of increasing temperature so as to prevent even that one way from working, and therefore the…
The West is burning. Climate change is making it worse. – Vox.com
California’s largest active fire continues to burn Sunday after tearing through a small community overnight. The Dixie Fire, which started earlier this month and has now burned more than 190,000 acres, forced a new wave of evacuations in Northern California…
Welcome to the Climate Apocalypse. (It will get worse.) – The Boston Globe
To put it bluntly, according to climate scientists: Yes, it is. “We are absolutely seeing the face of climate change in these extremes,” said Jennifer Francis, a senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center. Advertisement If you’ve known where…
Russia Signs Deal With Dubai Logistics Company to Navigate Thawing Arctic
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — A Russian venture that seeks to take advantage of climate change in the Far North won a key commercial backer Friday when DP World, the gigantic Dubai-based logistics and ports company, signed a deal to help…
Great Barrier Reef Escapes ‘Endangered’ Listing By World Heritage Committee
The Great Barrier Reef escaped being listed as an “endangered” UNESCO World Heritage Site during a meeting Friday to determine the reef’s environmental status, despite [some] experts’ insistence that it should be on it. The decision not to add the…
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