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As climate change continues, the Arctic is warming more than any other part of the world. This year’s mild winter is having an effect on northern communities, by making ice roads they depend upon impassable. Now, a state of emergency has been declared:
Mild weather shut the roads down after just under a month, which cut [...]
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Given our increasingly slim chances of avoiding more than 2˚C of global warming, it makes sense to start thinking about what a world hotter than that could be like.
The University of Oxford recently hosted a conference on the subject: 4degrees International Climate Change Conference: Implications of a Global Climate Change of 4 plus Degrees for [...]
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Willa Johnson has written an interesting post about her personal experience with coal, an industry which her family works in but which she now opposes.
Much of it focuses on the apparent tension between dealing with climate change and addressing unemployment:
People say that I am ungrateful and that I don’t understand, but I do. I grew [...]
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My review of Mike Hulme’s book Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity has been published in the most recent issue of the Saint Antony’s International Review (STAIR). It is the fourth review down, starting on the eighth page of the PDF.
I found the book interesting, but too heavily focused on [...]
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One section of Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed has been haunting me a bit of late. He refers repeatedly to the person who cut down the last tree on Easter Island, effectively completing the undermining the basis of their society. He ponders what the person thought while doing it – [...]
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The Economist’s latest Technology Quarterly contains a number of articles with climatic significance:
On foldable shipping containers
Tyres made with fewer fossil fuels, and which boost vehicle efficiency
LIDAR for wind turbines (mentioned here before)
Technologies for deep sea oil and gas extraction (worrisome, given that we need to leave most fossil fuels underground)
Quantum dots for efficient screens and [...]
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