NY Times columnist Paul Krugman, in Why Republicans Turned Against the Environment, Aug.15.
President Biden’s fist bump with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman turns one’s stomach. This humiliation should inspire all of us to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy as soon as possible.”
Letter to editor by Tom Miller of Oakland, Calif., published in New York Times, July 19.
The E.P.A. decision may feel like a back breaker, but the policy path to responsible, aggressive emissions reductions looked pretty broken yesterday.”
New York Times columnist David Wallace-Wells, in The Supreme Court’s E.P.A. Decision Is More Gloom Than Doom, July 1.
Whatever else this court may know about, it does not have a clue about how to address climate change.”
Justice Elena Kagan, commenting on the 6-to-3 Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. EPA, quoted in Supreme Court Limits E.P.A.’s Ability to Restrict Power Plant Emissions, by Adam Liptak, in The New York Times, June 30.
Already, the link between greenhouse-gas emissions and sweltering temperatures is so clear that some researchers say there may soon no longer be any point trying to determine whether today’s most extreme heat waves could have happened two centuries ago, before humans started warming the planet. None of them could have.”
Raymond Zhong, How Extreme Heat Kills, Sickens, Strains and Ages Us, New York Times, June 13.
Global warming has made the severe heat wave that has smothered much of Pakistan and India this spring hotter and much more likely to occur, climate scientists with World Weather Attribution, a collaborative effort among scientists to examine extreme weather events for the influence, or lack thereof, of climate change, said Monday. They said that the chances of such a heat wave increased by at least 30 times since the 19th century, before widespread emissions of planet-warming gases began. The relentless heat, with temperatures soaring beyond 100 degrees Fahrenheit for days, particularly in Northwestern India and Southeastern Pakistan, has killed at least 90 people, led to flooding from glacial melting in the Himalayas, contributed to power shortages and stunted India’s wheat crop, helping to fuel an emerging global food crisis. The study found that a heat wave like this one now has about a 1 in 100 chance of occurring in any given year. Before warming began, the chances would have been at least about 1 in 3,000. And the chances would increase to as much as 1 in 5, the researchers said, if the world reaches 2 degrees Celsius of warming, as it is on track to do unless nations sharply reduce emissions.”
New York Times climate reporter Henry Fountain, in Climate Change Fuels Heat Wave in India and Pakistan, Scientists Find, May 23.
Continued reliance on nuclear power going forward now is part of the price of our collective past failures.”
Drew Keeling, commenting on CTC post, For Climate’s Sake, Don’t Shut U.S. Nukes.
This is a fossil fuel war. It’s clear we cannot continue to live this way, it will destroy our civilization.”
Svitlana Krakovska, leader of the 11-member delegation from Ukraine to the 2022 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), quoted in ‘This is a fossil fuel war’: Ukraine’s top climate scientist speaks out, The Guardian, March 9, by Oliver Milman.
Some survivors of the Indian heat wave become ecoterrorists and use swarms of drones to crash passenger planes; no one can figure out how to stop the drones, and everyone gets scared. People fly less. They teleconference, or take long-distance trains, or even sail. They work remotely on transatlantic crossings. It’s not how we want change to happen. But, in the end, the jet age turns out to have been just that — an age.”
Joshua Rothman, “Can Science Fiction Wake Us Up to Our Climate Reality?,” a portrait of Kim Stanley Robinson and his 2020 novel, “The Ministry For The Future,” New Yorker magazine, Jan. 31, 2022 issue.
Breaking a long-standing national temperature record is hard (Canada’s old high-temperature record dated to 1937); surpassing it by eight degrees Fahrenheit is, in theory, statistically impossible. It was hotter in Canada that day [Tuesday, June 29, 2020] than on any day ever recorded in Florida, or in Europe, or in South America.”
The Year in Climate: A summer that really scared scientists, by Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, Dec. 16.
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