What Can One Teenager Do About Climate Change? Adah Crandall Will Find Out
A teen climate activist in Portland is setting the tone for transportation debates for decades to come with her mission to stop highway expansion. Will anyone listen before it’s too late?
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #489
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” – Albert Einstein
Living With Climate Change: Climate change fueled 3rd costliest losses ever in 2021 — less than half of that property was insured
The world racked up $329 billion in economic losses linked to severe weather last year, and only 38% of that bill was covered by insurance, Aon says.
Would Nuclear Winter Cancel Out Global Warming?
Nuclear war was very much a front-of-mind issue during the fraught political climate of the Cold War era. Since then, atomic sabre rattling has been less frequent, though has never quite disappeare…
How It Works issue 160: what caused the world's worst catastrophes?
In the latest issue of How It Works: How we cleaned up the world's worst human-made disasters, how radar works, why we get addicted, the history of flight, and can we control the weather?
Dangerous Heat Across the Globe
The planet is heating up like never before, as “ground temperatures” hit all-time records in the Northern Hemisphere as well as the Southern Hemisphere, and ocean temperatures threaten the world’s major fisheries of the Far North, which are imperiled beyond a…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #488
When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."― Jonathan Swift
Boulder Wildfires and Media Gaslighting Over Global Warming
The recent Marshall fire in Boulder, Colorado and neighboring communities was the most destructive fire in Colorado history, moving quickly and relentlessly, destroying more than 1,000 homes, leaving an apocalyptic level of destruction in its wa...