Sublime

But even when the fog is pointed out, we’re no better at navigating through it.

The human race, Saul Griffith has estimated, currently consumes energy at an average rate of approximately 16 trillion watts, or sixteen terawatts—the equivalent of 160 billion hundred-watt lightbulbs burning all the time. Capping atmospheric greenhouse gas at 450 parts per million—a level that’s 15 percent higher than today’s and that climatologis

The list of these critical biospheric boundaries includes nine categories: climate change (now interchangeably, albeit inaccurately, called simply global warming), ocean acidification (endangering marine organisms that build structures of calcium carbonate), depletion of stratospheric ozone (shielding the Earth from excessive ultraviolet radiation

A United States congressman had asked her why the taxpayer needed to fund the National Weather Service when he could get his weather from AccuWeather. Where on earth did he think AccuWeather—or the apps or the Weather Channel— got their weather? Where was AccuWeather when winds of two hundred and something miles per hour were churning through an Am

"Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course," and then continued,"Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, a

No one can say exactly how hot the world can get before out-and-out disaster—the inundation of a populous country like Bangladesh, say, or the collapse of crucial ecosystems like coral reefs—becomes inevitable. Officially, the threshold of catastrophe is an average global temperature rise of 2°C (3.6°F). Virtually every nation signed on to this fig