Works in Progress
The housing theory of everything
20+ min · · Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates. · Shared by 750, including David Wallace-Wells, Randy Deutsch, Tim, Noah Smith, Ed West, David Boaz, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Jason Crawford, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Patrick Collison, Amjad Masad, Huda Idrees, Andy Sparks, tylercowen
BBC
Climate change: World now sees twice as many days over 50C
6 min · · BBC research finds the number of days passing 50C has doubled in the past 40 years. · Shared by 35, including #StormHour, Tim
The Guardian
Race to the bottom: the disastrous blindfolded rush to mine the deep sea
20+ min · · One of the largest mining operations ever seen on Earth aims to despoil an ocean we are only barely beginning to understand · Shared by 144, including Laura Paddison, Carolyn Porco, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, William Gibson, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯, Robert Macfarlane, Tim, George Monbiot
reason
40 Ways Things Are Getting Better
10 min · · Shared by 72, including Steven Pinker, Barry Ritholtz, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, Tim, Esther Schindler, David Boaz
Visual Capitalist
All the Biomass of Earth, in One Graphic
17+ min · · Our planet supports approximately 8.7 million species, of which over a quarter live in water. But humans can hav · Shared by 199, including Mark Dittli, Tactical Tech, Brian Resnick, Cedric Paternotte, Katja Evertz, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Tim, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Randy Olson, Matteo Furia
Inside Climate News
New Research Explores the Costs of Climate Tipping Points, and How They Could Compound One Another
5 min · · Calculating the future cost of global warming is one of society’s most urgent challenges. And that math will depend on the speed of major shifts in Earth’s climate system, like the complete loss of… · Shared by 128, including Svein Tveitdal, Tim
The Guardian
Health journals make joint call for urgent action on climate crisis
2 min · · Editorial in publications worldwide urges leaders to take measures to stop ‘greatest threat to public health’ · Shared by 102, including Claudia Sommer, Thongchai suttirut, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Tim, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Greta Thunberg, Brent Toderian, Ray Monk, UN Biodiversity, Nils Hitze
nature
The mortality cost of carbon
15+ min · · Climate change is expected to have impacts on human mortality, e.g. through increases in heat waves. Here, the author proposes a new metric to account for excess deaths from additional CO2 emissions,… · Shared by 112, including Mark Lynas, David Wallace-Wells, Tim, Akshat Rathi, Jonathan Overpeck
Carbon Brief
Guest post: Why CO2 removal is not equal and opposite to reducing emissions
5 min · · An assumption that is commonly made when balancing a CO2 emission with a CO2 removal is that “one tonne in equals one tonne out” – that is, that the behaviour of the climate system in response to… · Shared by 27, including Tim, Susan Su
Eric Holthaus
The era of 'rapid' climate change has begun
8 min · · Here's what the new IPCC report says, and what it doesn't, about the most important moment of our lives. · Shared by 465, including Thomas Power, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Tim, Ines Bieler, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙
Axios
How climate change kills the future
3 min · · It will be challenging to remain optimistic about a future where the climate will get worse by the year · Shared by 207, including Svein Tveitdal, Tim, Thomas Power, Dan Primack, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Gerd Leonhard
Fast Company
This company is building a carbon calculator for every product in the world
4 min · · Carbonfact is impossibly ambitious. But impossible ambition is just what the environment needs right now. · Shared by 160, including Oliver Raduner, Marius Bleuer, Thomas Pleil, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Tim, Thomas Power
BBC News (World)
Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
6 min · · Heating from humans has caused irreparable damage to the Earth that may get worse in coming decades. · Shared by 110, including 🇬🇧 Tom Kane Author 🇺🇳 #StandWithUkriane 🇺🇦, Gregg Caruso, Mary Annaïse Heglar, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Daniel M Kammen, Gerd Leonhard, Tim, Jordi Serrano, Lisa Charlotte Muth, Fred Scharmen, UN Biodiversity, Dr. Marshall Shepherd
The Guardian
Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse
3 min · · A shutdown of the Atlantic currents would have devastating global impacts and cannot be allowed to happen, researchers say · Shared by 302, including Bruce Lawson, Joshua Benton, Matt Zoller Seitz, Antonio Vieira Santos, Greta Thunberg, Dr. Genevieve Guenther, Elrond Burrell (he/him), Gerd Leonhard, Dan Snow, Jamie Burke ⛺️, John Koetsier, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Damian Carrington, Svein Tveitdal, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Nathan Oseroff-Spicer, Massimo Pigliucci, Carla Gentry 🎶, Tom Raftery, Paul Graham
Vox
Can we save the planet by shrinking the economy?
17+ min · · The "degrowth" movement to fight the climate crisis offers a romantic, utopian vision. But it’s not a policy agenda. · Shared by 512, including Steven Pinker, Tim, Noah Smith, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Kelsey Piper, Svein Tveitdal, Gerd Leonhard, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Prof Michael E. Mann, Michael Seemann, Rutger Bregman, Thomas Power
The Guardian
Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)
17+ min · · The long read: The effects of ‘weird weather’ were already being felt in the 1960s, but scientists linking fossil fuels with climate change were dismissed as prophets of doom · Shared by 479, including Prof Steve Keen, luis antónio santos, Svein Tveitdal, Jansnet, Jane, David Wallace-Wells, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Pixel, Kate Raworth, Aral Balkan, Rico Grimm, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Stowe Boyd, Tim, Dr. Jonathan Foley, Gerd Leonhard