Climate Futures

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

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.

The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear? | Agriculture | The Guardian

Tess McClure • The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars

defector.com defector.com

It’s Time To Give Up Hope For A Better Climate & Get Heroic | NOEMA

Pamela Swanigan noemamag.com

Helene’s floodwaters have abated, but the risk of more potentially deadly landslides persists in the region, scientists say • Asheville Watchdog

PETER LEWIS avlwatchdog.org

Thumbnail of Helene’s floodwaters have abated, but the risk of more potentially deadly landslides persists in the region, scientists say • Asheville Watchdog

Good summary of landslide danger and reasons for it in WNC

What’s Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures? - Yale E360

Elizabeth Kolbert • What’s Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures?

‘We don’t know where the tipping point is’: climate expert on potential collapse of Atlantic circulation

Jonathan Watts theguardian.com

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

Lorenzo Tondo theguardian.com

Rebecca Solnit/joy is a strategy on X: "They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving." / X