How climate change drives hotter, more frequent heat waves
Everything you need to know about the science linking global warming to extreme heat.
Tag: Paris Agreement
Global warming to bring record hot year by 2028 – probably our first above 1.5 C limit
If humanity fails to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero, increasingly worse heat records will tumble beyond this decade.
UN’s climate “Code Red” demands attention in Florida
By Rosemary O’Hara Remember Al Gore’s 2006 film, An Inconvenient Truth? Gore was the canary in the coal mine for ...
Solutions to the climate crisis are better and cheaper than ever
David Hastings, climate scientist Are we doomed? Alarming reports continue of more destructive hurricanes, extreme heat events and rising sea levels. Florida is ground zero ...
To survive, our clever but uncooperative species must both cut and capture carbon emissions
By Todd L. Pittinsky, Stony Brook University After rising steadily for decades, as the COVID-19 pandemic squashed economic activity, global ...
With Joe Biden as president, we have a unique opportunity to resolve Juliana v. United States
Mitchell A. Chester, Our Children’s Trust Shortly after noon on Jan. 20, the Biden administration will become the third administration ...
In this election, our kids’ health and future are at stake
By Melissa Meehan Baldwin, Florida Clinicians for Climate Action I’ll never forget the day I learned about climate change. My ...
The same strategies can help us recover from both the pandemic and the climate crisis
By William Coty Keller, Ph.D. Before the pandemic, in spite of growing GDP, stock market highs and low unemployment, almost ...
Thanks for the oil drilling ban, Mr. President, but you’re no Teddy Roosevelt
Palm Beach Post Editorial Board It was President Donald Trump, self-styled superhero, who descended on Jupiter last week, swooping into ...
Young Americans are determined to halt the damage caused by the warming climate
By Will Charouhis, Forces of Nature This month we celebrated the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. But it didn’t feel ...
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