Climate Futures
Various impacts of climate change on the world of our children and grandchildren.
Climate Futures
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 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.
Climate scientists warn Nordic ministers of changing Atlantic Ocean current
reuters.com
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
Can You Even Survive a Global Famine?
Jessica Wildfire • Can You Even Survive a Global Famine?
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?
