Climate Futures
Various impacts of climate change on the world of our children and grandchildren.
Climate Futures
What’s Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures? - Yale E360
Elizabeth Kolbert • What’s Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures?
“Hope clouds observation.” — Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965 novel
It comes on top of more visible good news—the IEA said this weak that oil demand around the world is softening because of “surging” sales of electric vehicles. In China, demand for gasoline will peak this year or next and then decline sharply. Britain, where the coal era was born, will close it’s last coal-fired power plant at the end of this month... See more
Bill McKibben • Silent Solar
From Bill McKibben’s substack.
As Tad DeLay writes in Future of Denial, we are all, in a Freudian sense, repressing the reality of a climate changed future. It doesn’t bear thinking about, so we’d rather not. Reckoning with it leads to a daunting unravelling of the logic that structures our world.
Rebekah Diski • Rebekah Diski | Facts Not in Dispute
Helene’s floodwaters have abated, but the risk of more potentially deadly landslides persists in the region, scientists say • Asheville Watchdog
PETER LEWISavlwatchdog.org
Good summary of landslide danger and reasons for it in WNC
“I’ve been considering the response of humans to climate change through the lens of the classic five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Honestly, we’ve barely begun.”