global warming

Coca Cola Can't Go Green While Selling Drinks Cold

by Bart Elmore

If the worldwide beverage giant wants to reduce its carbon footprint, it's time for it to reverse its historical commitment to make its drinks available cold—in electric coolers—across the globe.

Could the Climate Crisis Be “The Good News of Damnation”?

by Lawrence Wittner

There is no other solution to the onrushing climate catastrophe than for people and nations to forget their tribal animosities and start behaving as part of a world society. The climate crisis, like the prospect of nuclear annihilation, really is “the good news of damnation.”  And we can only overcome it by working together.

What Australia’s Fires Should Teach the USA: Be Alarmist!

by Walter G. Moss

Most importantly in this 2020 election year, the Australian tragedy tells us we should vote out all the human-caused climate-change deniers and minimizers. 

A History of Climate Change Science and Denialism

by David Carlin

Climate science is not a new discipline and the scientific consensus on climate change is far older than many people think.

Which Would You Prefer―Nuclear War or Climate Catastrophe?

by Lawrence Wittner

A satirical examination of the threats facing the world. 

The Runway for Global Warming: The Suez Canal's 150th Anniversary

by On Barak

The largest infrastructural project of the nineteenth century annexed the Middle East into the fossil-fuels complex. Reexamining its history is indispensable for decarbonization today.

Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think

by Naomi Oreskes and Nicholas Stern

Economists greatly underestimate the price tag on harsher weather and higher seas. Why is that?

Climate Change: A Worldwide Catastrophe In The Making

by Alon Ben-Meir

The United Nations Climate Action Summit revealed how far presidents and prime ministers are willing to go avoid the terrible consequences of global warming.

How Understanding the History of the Earth's Climate Can Offer Hope Amid Crisis

by John Brooke, Michael Bevis and Steve Rissing

Our planet’s relationship to carbon dioxide has changed drastically before; it can change again. 

Does Our Climate Crisis Make the 2020 Election Our Most Crucial One Ever?

by Walter G. Moss

Youth activism like the kind currently being globally displayed also encourages us, but it also reminds us how tough the struggle ahead will be.

As Hurricane Dorian Threatens Florida, Gov. DeSantis & Trump—Who Haven't Curbed CO2 Emissions—Should Resign

by Juan Cole

If you don’t recognize the cause of a problem, you can’t fix the problem.

The Fight against Climate Change Must Become the New Abolitionism

by Erik Curren

Why has it taken so long for the climate movement to accomplish so little? And, since the clock is ticking to curb runaway global heating, how can we do better in the future?

Winter Isn’t Coming. Prepare for the Pyrocene.

by Steve Pyne

What does a full-blown fire age look like? We’re about to find out.

How the Little Ice Age Changed History

Starting in the fourteenth century, cooling temperatures disrupted our economic and social structures—and may have given rise to the modern world.

Cultural sites at risk from climate change

by Richard Moe

Climate change threatens much of our history, especially the history embodied in our “cultural sites,” the ruins and remnants of the first Americans passed down through multiple generations to the Native Americans of today.

Daniel Pipes warns that droughts in the Middle East are driving immigration

"Tens and hundreds of millions of people will want to leave the Middle East and Africa; where will they want to go to? Mostly to the West: especially Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia."

After Reading the Newest Climate Report this Is What You Should Do

by Walter G. Moss

Vote Democratic. The GOP just doesn’t seem to want to come to terms with this threat to the planet.

Capitalism’s Final Solution Is Nothing Less than Complete Ecological Collapse

by Ed Simon

Unfettered, unregulated, capricious, vampiric capitalism has brought us to the brink.

Presidents from Reagan to Obama ultimately recognized the importance of science and high-level international cooperation in addressing climate change

Contrary to the popular impression documents show that Republican presidents have pushed for the US to be an environmental leader.

Wildfire’s New Normal Looks a Lot Like the Old Normal with a Software Update

by Stephen J. Pyne

It would help if partisans stopped using wildfires to advance some other agenda.