Climate crisis 🌍
A collection of links on arguably the biggest issue of our time. How we got here, where we‘re headed and what we can do about it.
Collection by David Bauer
ProPublica
The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try.
~17 min read · Jan 25th · A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no future. And nobody but him will use the outdoor…
The New York Times
Opinion | What Are the Top Climate Threats in Your Country?
3 min read · Jan 28th · Flooding, heat stress, fires? Tell us where you live and we’ll tell you the risks.
New York Magazine
After Alarmism
20+ min read · Jan 19th · The war on denial has been won. And that’s not the only good news.
The Atlantic
The Planet Could Have Catastrophic Surprises in Store
20+ min read · Feb 3rd · The geologic record carries a terrifying warning.
The New York Times
Opinion | I’ve Said Goodbye to ‘Normal.’ You Should, Too.
6 min read · Jan 25th · Climate change is upending the world as we know it, and coping with it demands widespread, radical action.
The New York Times
A Global Tour of a Record-Hot Year
3 min read · Jan 14th · Data issued Thursday by NASA confirmed that 2020 has effectively tied the hottest year on record. That means the last seven years have been the warmest since the beginning of modern record-keeping.
grist
21 Predictions for 2021
~15 min read · 2020-12-08 · As this record-settingly terrible year draws to a close, 21 visionary climate and justice leaders point the way to progress in 2021.
Datawrapper
These scatter plots of heat and rain helped me understand our changing climate
3 min read · 2020-09-24 · Using a thermo-pluvio diagram to show which months are wetter and which ones are dryer
The New York Times
Record Wildfires on the West Coast Are Capping a Disastrous Decade
6 min read · 2020-09-24 · One after another, major fires exploded across Washington, Oregon and California earlier this month. They have added up to the worst fire season on record.
The Correspondent
This is what climate change means if your country is below sea level
20+ min read · 2020-09-24 · Climate change can feel so overwhelming that it becomes abstract. If we want to understand and fight this global threat, every nation needs a national narrative. This is the Dutch story – where the…
The Atlantic
The 4-Degrees-Celsius Election
4 min read · 2020-09-18 · This November, we can choose the safer, greener path for all of us, or the path to oblivion.
Bloomberg Graphics
This Climate Simulator Lets You Decide How to Best Fight Global Warming
2020-04-22 · To continue, please click the box below to let us know you're not a robot.
Vox
These 3 supertrees can protect us from climate collapse
1 min read · 2019-12-12 · But can we protect them?
Guardian US
Where do the 2020 Democratic candidates stand on the climate crisis?
5 min read · 2020-02-29 · In California – which hosts its primary on Tuesday – voters are all too familiar with the toll of environmental disasters
The New Yorker
The Search for New Words to Make Us Care About the Climate Crisis
5 min read · 2020-02-21 · The essays collected in “An Ecotopian Lexicon” seek to expand the language we use to describe the present-day crisis and how we might meaningfully respond to life in the Anthropocene.
The New Yorker
Welcome to The Climate Crisis
5 min read · 2020-02-27 · But the name of this newsletter is also a nod to W. E. B. Du Bois, and the magazine that he founded a hundred and ten years ago, at the start of the N.A.A.C.P. The Crisis was, and is, a crucial…
