How Climate Change May Influence Deadly Avalanches – Scientific American
Big dumps of powder snow are a precious gift in the best of times around the West, where 40 or 50 feet can fall during a winter, forming frozen mountain water towers that slowly melt and sustain the region through…
Is Bill Gates’s Climate-Change Book Worth Reading? | Outside Online – Outside
At age 65, Bill Gates continues to walk through life with all of the brashness of an algebra teacher. While his peers among the ultrarich enjoy crocodile breeding, dating pop stars, or traveling by hot-air balloon, the cofounder of Microsoft has devoted his spare…
Climate change: 5 places where global warming is a security risk – PreventionWeb
By Laurie Goering From Louisiana’s battle with two hurricanes and an icy polar vortex in the past year to Kenya’s struggle with locusts, drought and floods, climate risks are piling up – and colliding with other threats like COVID-19, making…
Biden Wants to Take On China and Climate Change at the Same Time – Slate
Global warming is, in large part, a U.S.-China problem. The two countries combined account for 43 percent of worldwide CO2 emissions. The decisions the two countries make in the coming years will shape what life is like on the planet…
As Deaths Surge, Scientists Study the Link Between Climate Change and Avalanches – InsideClimate News
Big dumps of powder snow are a precious gift in the best of times around the West, where 40 or 50 feet can fall during a winter, forming frozen mountain water towers that slowly melt and sustain the region through…
Syracuse needs to take climate change seriously – The Daily Orange
Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. The atmosphere continues to warm every year. Despite images depicting evidence of the threat of climate change caused by people, in Syracuse, seasons still seem…
Natural Gas Battles Local Climate Efforts – NPR
Tyler Hollon, who works for a construction company in Utah, says eliminating natural gas from apartment buildings can reduce costs. Hollon’s company now shares its designs and budgets with other builders. “The reason we’re giving it away is to clean…
Steady now: Unfortunate timing and rate of change may be enough to tip a climate system
(University of Copenhagen – Faculty of Science) Unpredictable, abrupt changes to Earth’s system of ocean currents could commence from rate-induced tipping, model study shows. ‘The findings point to fundamental limitations inclimate predictability,’ authors warn.
Here’s what Bill Gates is doing — and not doing — to help fight climate change – GeekWire
[embedded content] Climate change is by definition a global challenge, and in his new book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” Bill Gates describes solutions that require an all-hands response including government, companies, institutions and individuals. But as one of…
U.S. must go ‘well beyond Paris commitments’ to avert catastrophic global warming, warns scientist – CNBC
Scientist Michael Mann argued that the United States must go “well beyond those Paris commitments” as President Joe Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement Friday. “We have to ratchet up the commitments now if we are to stay on course…
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