The world has warmed 1.5 °C, according to 300-year-old sponges

From Nature, 5 February 2024: The planet has already passed 1.5 °C of warming, according to a new measuring technique that goes back further in time than current methods. At the 2015 Paris Climate Accords, nations agreed not to exceed 1.5 °C, a guardrail of climate change. “We have an alternate record of global warming,” Continue reading The world has warmed 1.5 °C, according to 300-year-old sponges

Climate freeloaders are destroying the planet

From WIRED UK, 23 March 2023: Alaska isn’t supposed to be an inferno—but its summers are now so warm that apocalyptic wildfires are almost inevitable. In June 2022, lightning strikes set the drought-stricken land ablaze, winds whipped up flames, and long curtains of fire soon ripped through previously untouched tundra, pushing plumes of thick smoke Continue reading Climate freeloaders are destroying the planet