Global warming

In a scene from the docuseries "Meltdown: Three Mile Island," CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite reports on the pending nuclear disaster in central Pennsylvania that came shockingly close to a "China syndrome" meltdown, and required a 14-year clean-up operation.

7 May 2022

Is nuclear power safe enough to be part of our non-carbon future?

Solar- and wind-power naysayers frequently chime about gaps in energy production at night or when the wind dies down, but energy storage is gaining ground as a viable, scalable solution.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Prof. Michael Mann

Political will all we need to avert climate catastrophe, say Mann, Whitehouse

Tropical forests create year-round cooling, and collectively all forests keep Earth about 0.5 degrees Celsius cooler, according to new research.

Forests cool the planet as well as store carbon, new research finds

The nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court, Feb. 27, 2022

Climate-related regulation at risk as Supreme Court considers case lacking facts

Rising global temperatures could stabilize within 3- to 5-years if greenhouse gas emissions stopped now (dark blue line at 0.00 highlighted area above), contrary to decades of continued warming, which was previously believed.

New paradigm clarifies how global temperatures can stop rising within years, not decades

Five temperature records dating back to 1880 show how Earth's global mean surface temperature has risen and keeps rising. All show rapid warming in the past few decades, and all show the past decade has been the warmest.

Only a few degrees of global warming? So what.

A delicate balance of ocean currents transport heat around the planet and drive global weather patterns. But greenhouse gas emissions are slowing a key Atlantic Ocean current to the brink of collapse, with catastrophic global weather implications.

And now we’re changing ocean currents — threatening to disrupt and worsen global weather

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg continues her weekly "Fridays for Future" climate strike. She's been protesting for 130 weeks.

Thunberg summarizes One Planet Summit: “Bla bla bla…”

Mother Nature attempts to ease tensions between rival siblings Snow Miser and Heat Miser in 1974's "The Year Without a Santa Clause."

2020: The year without a climate conference

John Kerry at the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris. Kerry helped broker the "Paris Agreement," a global pledge to limit rising global temperatures.

26 November 2020

Climate guidance for the Biden-Harris administration

The Climate 21 Project’s guidance on ways President Biden can take immediate steps to address the climate emergency and sidestep Republican obstructionism.

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