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Global Warming
The idea that it’s “too late” to reduce emissions fuels cynicism and despair, putting us on an even worse trajectory.
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“I think the key point is that doesn't mean game over. That doesn't mean we're flipped into a world, and to a point of no return.”
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"It's not that I don't think these problems are big or that they're urgent, but I can start to see that these problems are solvable."
We're all entitled to our own opinions, no matter how ill-informed they are. But facts are facts; we can't just choose the ones we prefer.
The primary causes of global climate change are all due to human activity. Adding aerosols to our atmosphere only exacerbates the problem.
Make Sunsets is bringing solar geoengineering from sci-fi to reality.
The laws of physics aren't changing. But the Earth's conditions are different than what they used to be, and so are hurricanes as a result.
Thanks to the Coriolis force, hurricanes never cross the equator.
The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.
Food transport accounted for only 6% of emissions, but the production of dairy, meat, and eggs accounted for 83%
Ice harvesters once made a living from frozen lakes and ponds, but the work was strenuous and dangerous. Then refrigeration changed everything.
There may be more energy in methane hydrates than in all the world’s oil, coal, and gas combined. It could be the perfect "bridge fuel" to a clean energy future.
The nature of civilizational threats has changed in a mere decade.
Two populations that are geographically separated today once mated a very long time ago.
Capacitors, acid batteries, and other methods of storing electric charges all lose energy over time. These gravity-fed batteries won't.
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What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him.
It's on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.
Methane is a shorter-lived but more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Cleaning it up could have a quick impact on global warming.
Based on data since 2000 alone, global warming is still occurring at a whopping 7-sigma significance. How hot will planet Earth get?
An out-of-this-world idea could help reduce some of the risk of solar geoengineering.
Any alien civilization that grows to span an entire planet would spark the same effects that we have. So, what do we do about it?
A dispute marked by flags and booze has been replaced with an official land border.
This marks a historic moment in humanity’s relationship to the planet.
Best in class: Denmark and Uruguay. Worst in class: Papua New Guinea, Venezuela, and Russia.
Here’s how it works.
Volcanic activity caused the end-Triassic mass extinction 200 million years ago. The dinosaurs survived and rose to dominance.
A floating platform the size of Rome collapsed off of Antarctica.
Most “irrecoverable carbon” is concentrated in these tiny bits of the Earth’s land mass. Can we keep it there?
No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity's best tool for figuring out how things work.