Climate Futures

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

Creighton

Cities Face 'Severe Degradation' Without Meaningful Climate Action, Warn Experts - Health Policy Watch

healthpolicy-watch.news

NASA satellites reveal abrupt drop in global freshwater levels

James R. Riordon phys.org

The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis

Lynn White Jr. explores the historical roots of humanity's ecological crisis, highlighting the impact of Christianity and technology on our relationship with nature, and calls for a rethinking of these assumptions.

uvm.edu

If fossil fuel dependency is a global addiction, climate activists are prophets trying to save us from our stupor | Tim Winton

Tim Winton theguardian.com

“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

How many days will you spend outside in a climate changed world?

anthropocenemagazine.org

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?

janhoglund (@janhoglund@mastodon.nu)

Sarah Kendzior mastodon.nu

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