Blogging the End of the World™
By Coral Davenport and Mark Landler 27 May 2019 WASHINGTON (The New York Times) – President Trump has rolled back environmental regulations, pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord, brushed aside dire predictions about the effects of climate change, and turned the term “global warming” into a punch line rather than a prognosis. […]
By Ben Steverman 23 May 2019 (Bloomberg Businessweek) — Gabriel Zucman started his first real job the Monday after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Fresh from the Paris School of Economics, where he’d studied with a professor named Thomas Piketty, Zucman had lined up an internship at Exane, the French brokerage firm. He joined a […]
26 May 2019 (AFP) – As nuclear explosions go, the U.S. “Cactus” bomb test in May 1958 was relatively small — but it has left a lasting legacy for the Marshall Islands in a dome-shaped radioactive dump. The dome — described by a UN chief Antonio Guterres as “a kind of coffin” — was built […]
By Jonathan Hair 26 May 2019 (ABC News) – There are fears national parks in NSW are being damaged by a revenue-making tree-planting scheme, after revegetation works were carried about in the Capertee National Park. About three hours’ drive west of Sydney, Capertee National Park was a working cattle property until 2010, when it was […]
By Christopher Flavelle and Mira Rojanasakul 15 May 2019 (Bloomberg) – Gerard Braud has no plans to leave his handsome Creole-style house with its 15-foot-high front porch on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, a short drive from New Orleans. “Peacefulness and tranquility” is how he explains the appeal of living here. Except that thanks […]
By Nick Humphrey 2 May 2019 (Patreon) – I get asked a lot about what the future holds. I discussed the projections of global average temperature and sea level rise in an upcoming interview on Radio Ecoshock (will be posted next week). However, while trying to write an article on this, I found myself frustrated […]
21 May 2019 (CBC News) – A Kitchener teenager is urging the federal government to declare a national climate emergency. Elizabeth Rose wrote a letter to her member of parliament, Raj Saini, asking elected officials to support a motion to declare a climate emergency on behalf of children in Canada. In the letter, the 15-year-old […]
By Susan Cosier 24 April 2019 (Technology Review) – In 2006, the British economist Nicholas Stern warned that one of the biggest dangers of climate change would be mass migration. “Climate-related shocks have sparked violent conflict in the past,” he wrote, “and conflict is a serious risk in areas such as West Africa, the Nile […]
29 April 2019 (PIK) – Record breaking heatwaves and droughts in North America and Western Europe, torrential rainfalls and floods in South-East Europe and Japan – the summer of 2018 brought a series of extreme weather events that occurred almost simultaneously around the Northern Hemisphere in June and July. These extremes had something in common, […]
By Carolyn Beeler 13 May 2019 (PRI) – Peter Sheehan, an oceanographer on the Nathaniel B. Palmer, was one of the first people on Earth to get this view of Thwaites Glacier — the part that juts out to sea. He’s pored over plenty of Google images of ice shelves, but there’s nothing like the […]
