Climate Futures

Various impacts of climate change on the world of our children and grandchildren.

“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.”

https://mastodon.green/@christineburns/113413432846625603

NASA satellites reveal abrupt drop in global freshwater levels

James R. Riordon phys.org

Home Sales Sink Across Florida Amid Hurricane Recovery, Surging HOA and Insurance Costs

Lily Katz redfin.com

‘The land is becoming desert’: drought pushes Sicily’s farming heritage to the brink

Lorenzo Tondo theguardian.com

In these latter days everybody is familiar with concepts like the carbon footprint, sustainability, and the like. Measures of the ecological cost of the things we do. One of the most irksome problems bedeviling Earth's biosphere at present is the outrageous cost of many aspects of many human lifestyles. Society is gradually and too late awakening... See more

Albert Burneko • Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars

Unsparing commentary on where we are, from the article “Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars”

The entire story of a civilization, or a community, centers around energy: its availability; its production; the uses to which it is put. Whether need outstrips them all.

janhoglund (@janhoglund@mastodon.nu)

Sarah Kendzior mastodon.nu

Climate scientists warn Nordic ministers of changing Atlantic Ocean current

reuters.com

How solar microgrids are bringing power (and quiet) to North Carolina

Elizabeth Ouzts canarymedia.com