Shell knew, just like ExxonMobil knew

Shell Oil, like ExxonMobil, spent millions lobbying against action on climate change. But all along they knew of the dangers of climate change. We know because way back in 1991 they produced a video warning about the threat of global warming. They ignored their own...
THAW

THAW

Lakes and rivers on the rapidly melting Greenland ice cap, from a new collection of photographs titled “THAW” by Timo Lieber. The collection highlights the rapidly accelerating melt of the ice cap, which is losing an estimated 380 billion tons of ice...
Time is running short

Time is running short

Time is running short… 1.5C: we have only 1 year, 7 months. 2C: we have only 18 years, 11 months. Albert Bartlett, physicist and teacher, once said the greatest shortcoming of us humans is our inability to understand the exponential function (think population...
Twenty seven years ago

Twenty seven years ago

27 years ago the U.N. Environment Program said we had 10 years left to get climate change under control, before it “goes beyond human control.” We didn’t do anything about it. We’ve emitted almost as much CO2 in the past 27 years as we did in...

Planetary Bands, Warming World

A team of musicians and scientists the University of Minnesota have translated 133 years—from 1880 to 2014—of global temperature measurements from four bands of latitude—the equatorial zone, the mid-latitudes, the high latitudes, and the...