Climate Futures
Various impacts of climate change on the world of our children and grandchildren.
Climate Futures
“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.”
But the big uncertainty that determines whether 2100 is a happy place or a less happy place is our decisions on what we do with emissions. And they dwarf the uncertainties that we’re talking about here. We’re talking 0.1, 0.2 degrees. Well, the difference emissions make is 1 degree, 2 degrees, 3 degrees. So it’s an order of magnitude larger. And... See more
“Every part of our financial and legal system at this point is devoted, singularly devoted, to keeping the status quo in place,” Harvard Law School professor Susan Crawford said in the webinar. “It will be difficult for us to adapt.”
Mark Gongloff • A $1 Trillion Time Bomb Is Ticking in the Housing Market - Bloomberg
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.
How many days will you spend outside in a climate changed world?
anthropocenemagazine.org
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
Can You Even Survive a Global Famine?