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The most relevant articles on arguably the biggest issue of our time. How we got here, where we‘re headed and what we can do about it. Follow along on Refind to get the most relevant new links picked for you.
9 Best Articles in 2021
Inc.
MIT Published a List of the 9 Megatrends That Will Shape the World in 2030. Here's What…Inc.
2 min read · 2020-02-25 · Climate change, transparency, and populism will be driving the workforce 10 years from now.
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New York Magazine
The Uninhabitable EarthNew York Magazine
20+ min read · From 2019 · Plague, famine, heat no human can survive. This is not science fiction but what scientists, when they’re not being cautious, fear could be our future.
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Guardian Tech
Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by botsGuardian Tech
5 min read · 2020-02-21 · Draft of Brown study says findings suggest ‘substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages’
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The New York Times
How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born?The New York Times
2 min read · From 2018 · See how days at or above 90 degrees Fahrenheit have changed in your lifetime and how much hotter it could get.
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The New York Times
The Great Climate Migration Has BegunThe New York Times
20+ min read · 2020-07-23 · New research suggests climate change will cause humans to move in unprecedented numbers. The Times Magazine partnered with ProPublica and data scientists to understand how.
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TIME
Greta Thunberg Is TIME’s 2019 Person of the YearTIME
20+ min read · 2019-12-11 · The climate activist has succeeded in turning vague anxieties about the planet into a worldwide movement calling for global change
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The New York Times
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate ChangeThe New York Times
From 2018 · We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves. A tragedy in two acts.
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ProPublica
The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try.ProPublica
~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…
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Guardian Environment
Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissionsGuardian Environment
6 min read · 2019-10-09 · New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
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5 Steps That Helped Me Figure Out My Role in the Climate Movement
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World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021
Oxford Uni Press
Opinion | Extreme Heat Is Deadly. Here’s How to Limit Its Toll.
The New York Times
Opinion | Apocalypse Right Now
The New York Times
Three degrees of global warming is quite plausible and truly disastrous
The Economist
Is climate change happening faster than expected?
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"What can I do?" Anything.Emily Atkin
9 min read · Jul 12th · The battle for a livable future is a battle against fossil fuels. Right now, it's all hands on deck.
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If the true urgency of climate change was not clear to Americans before, it should be clear by now. The mind-bending heat, drought, fire and flood sweeping the country are both nightmares and wake-up calls to the reality fossil fuels created.
The ability to participate in activism is a privilege. Many simply do not have the time, money, or emotional bandwidth to take on a global cause.
The New York Times
Opinion | It Seems Odd That We Would Just Let the World BurnThe New York Times
9 min read · Jul 15th · Where is the urgency on climate change?
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I don’t believe this reveals our true preference for the world our descendants will inhabit. I believe it reveals our deeply human inability to take the future as seriously as we take the present.
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‘No One Is Safe’: Extreme Weather Batters the Wealthy WorldThe New York Times
6 min read · Jul 17th · Floods swept Germany, fires ravaged the American West and another heat wave loomed, driving home the reality that the world’s richest nations remain unprepared for the intensifying consequences of…
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Fast Company
How an ancient design technique could help us survive extreme heat, no AC neededFast Company
5 min read · Jul 8th · Can passive design keep our houses cool?
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Passive House buildings are practically air tight and reduce the amount of temperature change inside when it’s very hot or very cold
The Guardian
Climate crisis: 50 photos of extreme weather around the worldThe Guardian
20+ min read · Jul 18th · As temperatures rise and pollution increases, wildfires, floods and extreme winds have battered many parts of the world in the last six months
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The Guardian
Our climate change turning point is right here, right nowThe Guardian
6 min read · Jul 12th · People are dying. Aquatic animals are baking in their shells. Fruit is being cooked on the tree. It’s time to act
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Nieman Lab
If you’re not a climate reporter yet, you will be: Covid-19 coverage offers lessons for reporting on…Nieman Lab
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Summary, by the author
In covering Covid-19, newsrooms have learned to process a topic that affects all of their verticals, from politics to sports. That same interdisciplinary approach is now needed to cover the climate crisis. 
For climate journalism to resonate with audiences and to give them context, news organisations should focus on a few key metrics of climate change and then keep explaining and referring to these key metrics regularly. 
Climate change is a topic that can easily make readers feel helpless. Of course, journalists should never belittle the climate crisis but report accurately. In addition, though, they should point to solutions wherever possible. 
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The New York Times
‘It Is All Connected’: Extreme Weather in the Age of Climate ChangeThe New York Times
6 min read · Jul 17th · The storm that brought flooding and devastation to parts of Europe is the latest example of an extreme weather event. More are expected.
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The New York Times
Parts of the Amazon Go From Absorbing Carbon Dioxide to Emitting ItThe New York Times
4 min read · Jul 14th · A new study analyzing hundreds of aerial readings of emissions above the forest canopy found that forest regions in the southeast were most affected.
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We Are Not Readywarzel.substack.com
~11 min read · Jul 8th · On the climate crisis and other hyperobjects
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our 21st century existence is characterized by the repeated confrontation with sprawling, complex, even existential problems without straightforward or easily achievable solutions.
Theorist Timothy Morton calls the larger issues undergirding these problems “hyperobjects,” a concept so all-encompassing that it resists specific description.
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