Study highlights combined effects of extreme heat and humidity, which are especially dangerous to human health
Our burning Earth
Archive | Greenhouse Gas
Global climate report
Confirmed: 2015 to 2019 were the five hottest years on record
Meteorologists agree that temperatures will continue to rise, and record years like 2019 are becoming the new baseline
C&C Forum
An ecosocialist case for CO2 removal technology
David Schwartzman argues that we can’t prevent catastrophic climate change without negative carbon emission technologies
Profits versus planet
Climate change, emissions, and the fat tail risk
Existing emission policies will not harm oil and gas profits. They also won’t stop global warming from rising to globally destructive levels
Climate crisis
2020 is hot, and it’s going to get much hotter
Emissions are rising. Each decade is warmer than the last. The oceans are heating up. Australia is burning. And that’s just January.
Energy debate
Reconsidering Nuclear Power
Socialists debate whether nuclear can generate the power needed to improve the economic well-being of the vast majority of people, without carbon emissions.
Metabolic Rifts
Capitalism versus the Global Carbon Cycle
Carbon cycles regulate the Earth’s temperature and provide essential elements of life. Capitalist industry and agriculture are disrupting those vital life support systems
Global heat
Atmospheric carbon dioxide level hits all-time high
Seventh consecutive year of steep increases leads to the highest greenhouse gas concentration recorded in 61 years of observations
Book review
Biofuels: A pseudo-green scam that only enriches agribusiness
Ethanol and biodiesel boost corporate profits while doing nothing to solve the world’s growing social and environmental crises
Science is clear
New study: Greenhouse gas is more dangerous than regulators thought
New evidence not only strengthens the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding, it shows that greenhouse gas impacts could be much worse than expected
Heating the Greenhouse
Global warming illustrated: 800,000 years of CO2 in one graph
This year’s increase in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry is the largest in seven years. CO2 in the atmosphere has hit a new high.
Book review
Fossil fuel production and use exploded in the 20th century. Can we stop the flow in the 21st?
In ‘Burning Up’ Simon Pirani shows why fossil fuel consumption has grown so fast, and why only radical social change can prevent climate disaster now
Climate change vs biodiversity
Greenhouse gases and mass extinctions: Speed kills
In past warming events, atmospheric CO2 rose too fast for many species to adapt. Today it is rising 10 times faster than at any time in 66 million years.
Review
Climate change in the Anthropocene: An unstoppable drive to Hothouse Earth?
Can the global climate be stabilized before runaway change creates conditions that are too hot for human civilization and deadly for most species?
Emissions rising
Energy and Climate Change: No progress in 20 years
BP statistics show we are far from meeting the emission reduction targets adopted in the Paris Agreement. In 2017, we took a step backwards.
Corporate liars exposed
Shell knew about climate threat decades ago
Secret documents reveal that the giant oil company’s scientists warned executives about the global impact of fossil fuels as early as 1981
Science is Clear
“There is no convincing alternative explanation”
The new U.S. Climate Science Special Report is unequivocal: climate change is real, it is caused by human activity, especially greenhouse gas emissions, and it is getting more dangerous every day
Hothouse World
Greenhouse gas concentrations surge to new record
‘The last time the Earth experienced a comparable concentration of CO2 was 3-5 million years ago, the temperature was 2-3°C warmer and sea level was 10-20 meters higher than now.’
Ecosocialist Debate
Memo to Jacobin: Ecomodernism is not ecosocialism
Ian Angus challenges a left-wing magazine that promotes geoengineering, nuclear power, carbon storage and other techno-fixes as solutions to climate change.
GHG Reduction
Planting trees cannot replace cutting CO2 emissions
‘Save the planet: Plant a Tree!’ It sounds good, but scientists say we can’t avoid dangerous climate change without rapid cuts in fossil fuel use, starting now.