The composition of the Supreme Court has varied over time, but another number is constant: without fundamental transformation to emissions by 2030, the chances of meeting the Paris climate targets are nil.
A new scenario from the International Energy Agency that tries to foresee a world in which we reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 is a step in the right direction.
In the late nineteen-eighties, I could fit every scientific report on global warming on my desk. The articles and monographs published since then would fill an airplane hangar, but what’s amazing is how little has changed.
If Donald Trump gets another ruinous term, our federal government will spend the next critical years stoking the fires that are now heating our planet.
Faced with historic wildfires on the West Coast and in Siberia, it’s tempting to simply give up. But giving up is generational aggression: it consigns the planet’s young people to an ever-grimmer planet.
We get a sense of what a warming globe feels like—each second, trapping the heat equivalent of four Hiroshima-sized bombs exploding—when we have a week like the one we just came through.