Thanks for an engaging and informative post, Katharine, and the introduction of your amazing colleague, Fredi Otto.
I'd like to share something with you and your readers that blew me away: "The planet-warming emissions generated during the first two months of the war in Gaza were greater than the annual carbon footprint of more than 20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations, new research reveals." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/emissions-gaza-israel-hamas-war-climate-change
I wonder if more people would want peace if they realized how terrible the effects of war are on our climate and environment.
Love the call to action being about solarpunk and the ability to imagine better futures - that's why I write climate fiction. Also makes me think about Ezra Klein's new book Abundance. We need to have an agenda to build all the things we need - and a conversation about what kind of future we deserve!
Thank you Fredi. Yes the NASA Arctic Ice Melt 2024 animated video shows the melt not beginning on the shores but where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Arctic. This indicates a stronger turning of the AMOC strengthen by more stormwater, warmed on the land, reaching the sea. In addition to reducing Fossil fuel emissions, we must also restore more vegetation and soils replacing hard scapes and urban heat islands. With more vegetation, more carbon sponges, comes more cumulus cloud formation to restore the global balance back to 50% cumulus cloud cover reflecting sunlight to cool the planet.
When a man who is not a climate scientist explains climate science to two women who are climate scientists, that's called "mansplaining." Please avoid it in the future. Thank you!
You do not have to be a climate scientist. Physics is the laws of the universe and global warming was spotted by a layman over 100 years ago who predicted then from the laws we would overheat the atmosphere.
There are neither realistic proposals for reducing increasing warming gas output never mind removing the huge amount we have put out there in the last 100 years.
And attacking a physicist because of their gender was rife in the past but I thought we had grown past that.
I have studied physics and global warming information textbooks for over 65 yrars.
It was obvious over 15 years ago that devasting climate change was here and getting worse every year. There are many tipping points that are imminent. Physics is immutable. Do you still believe in newtons apple theory? We are pumping more than enough greenhouse gases out to create runaway change. And actually not only more each year but due to policy changes re mitigation intend to pump even more. 2035 to 2040 is when newly weds will not have children…
Climate scientists have my ear not the geoengineers.
Stop burning fossil fuels. Let's move on to greener pastures not more chemical pollutants entering our soil, our air our oceans.
Thanks for an engaging and informative post, Katharine, and the introduction of your amazing colleague, Fredi Otto.
I'd like to share something with you and your readers that blew me away: "The planet-warming emissions generated during the first two months of the war in Gaza were greater than the annual carbon footprint of more than 20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations, new research reveals." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/emissions-gaza-israel-hamas-war-climate-change
I wonder if more people would want peace if they realized how terrible the effects of war are on our climate and environment.
Love the call to action being about solarpunk and the ability to imagine better futures - that's why I write climate fiction. Also makes me think about Ezra Klein's new book Abundance. We need to have an agenda to build all the things we need - and a conversation about what kind of future we deserve!
A Half-Built Garden is another novel that imagines hopeful possibilities for addressing climate crises!
Thank you Fredi. Yes the NASA Arctic Ice Melt 2024 animated video shows the melt not beginning on the shores but where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Arctic. This indicates a stronger turning of the AMOC strengthen by more stormwater, warmed on the land, reaching the sea. In addition to reducing Fossil fuel emissions, we must also restore more vegetation and soils replacing hard scapes and urban heat islands. With more vegetation, more carbon sponges, comes more cumulus cloud formation to restore the global balance back to 50% cumulus cloud cover reflecting sunlight to cool the planet.
I really enjoyed Psalm for the Wild Built
One study shows amoc ok until 2100.others show collapse by 2050 and even before then. Your optimism is misplaced.
When a man who is not a climate scientist explains climate science to two women who are climate scientists, that's called "mansplaining." Please avoid it in the future. Thank you!
You do not have to be a climate scientist. Physics is the laws of the universe and global warming was spotted by a layman over 100 years ago who predicted then from the laws we would overheat the atmosphere.
There are neither realistic proposals for reducing increasing warming gas output never mind removing the huge amount we have put out there in the last 100 years.
And attacking a physicist because of their gender was rife in the past but I thought we had grown past that.
I have studied physics and global warming information textbooks for over 65 yrars.
It was obvious over 15 years ago that devasting climate change was here and getting worse every year. There are many tipping points that are imminent. Physics is immutable. Do you still believe in newtons apple theory? We are pumping more than enough greenhouse gases out to create runaway change. And actually not only more each year but due to policy changes re mitigation intend to pump even more. 2035 to 2040 is when newly weds will not have children…