by faster | Dec 20, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: December 20, 2018 SNIP: Policymakers have severely underestimated the risks of ecological tipping points, according to a study that shows 45% of all potential environmental collapses are interrelated and could amplify one another. The...
by faster | Oct 9, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: October 9, 2018 SNIP: Key dangers largely left out of the IPCC special report on 1.5C of warming are raising alarm among some scientists who fear we may have underestimated the impacts of humans on the Earth’s climate. The IPCC report sets...
by faster | Aug 7, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: August 7, 2018 SNIP: A domino-like cascade of melting ice, warming seas, shifting currents and dying forests could tilt the Earth into a “hothouse” state beyond which human efforts to reduce emissions will be increasingly futile, a group of...
by faster | Jun 26, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Ars Technica DATE: June 26, 2018 SNIP: Many of the threats we know are associated with climate change are slow moving. Gradually rising seas, a steady uptick in extreme weather events, and more all mean that change will come gradually to much of the globe. But...
by faster | Sep 20, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Motherboard DATE: September 20, 2017 SNIP: A new paper in Science Advances finds that a mass extinction period mirroring ones from our planet’s ancient past could be triggered when humanity adds a certain amount of carbon to the oceans, which are home to...
