Comment, news and reviews on the climate crisis
Climate Commentary is a collection of links, articles, news and opinions concerned with climate change, global warming and the climate crisis. It is a digital “commonplace book”: a collection of items found elsewhere in the media.
Recent articles:
- Degrowth isn’t the same as a recession – it’s an alternative to growing the economy forever
- How we stop floating wind turbines the size of skyscrapers from drifting away
- Methane must fall to slow global heating – but only 13% of emissions are actually regulated
- Hottest days are warming twice as fast as average summer temperature in north-west Europe – new research
- Climate change first ‘went viral’ exactly 70 years ago
- Drought recedes in Britain after a wet spring – but much of Europe is parched
- How to make your next holiday better for the environment
- ‘Statistically impossible’ heat extremes are here – we identified the regions most at risk
- Replacing methane with hydrogen to heat homes is a bad idea – here’s why
- Shakespeare’s environmentalism: how his plays explore the same ecological issues we face today
- How extreme weather threatens to bring down UK’s power lines and halt supply to homes
- Cooking pollutes your home and increases your health risks – but better ventilation will help
- El Niño is coming, and ocean temps are already at record highs – that can spell disaster for fish and corals
- Climate change: multi-country media analysis shows scepticism of the basic science is dying out
- Hundreds of rivers and lakes cross international borders – countries need to commit to sharing the water
- Seven ways to recycle heat and reduce carbon emissions
- Torrents of Antarctic meltwater are slowing the currents that drive our vital ocean ‘overturning’ – and threaten its collapse
- The UK’s first climate refugees: why more defences may not save this village from rising sea levels
- Why a serious climate strategy is almost impossible in the UK’s current political system
- IPCC’s conservative nature masks true scale of action needed to avert catastrophic climate change
- UK food shortages: how growing more fruit and veg in cities could reduce the impact of empty supermarket shelves
- Intense downpours in the UK will increase due to climate change – new study
- Countries are relying on forests and soil to absorb their remaining carbon – it’s a risky way to reach net zero
- Extreme wildfires are turning the world’s largest forest ecosystem from carbon sink into net-emitter
- Economic growth is fuelling climate change – a new book proposes ‘degrowth communism’ as the solution
- La Niña is finishing an extremely unusual three-year cycle – here’s how it affected weather around the world
- Environmental activists on trial barred from citing climate crisis in their defence
- Global inequality must fall to maintain a safe climate and achieve a decent standard of living for all – it’s a huge challenge
- Planting more trees could reduce premature deaths in European cities by a third – new research
- Four possible consequences of El Niño returning in 2023
- Extreme storms and flood events cause damage worth billions to ports – and they are most disruptive to small island developing states
- Desalination could give the Middle East water without damaging marine life – but it must be managed carefully
- Green hydrogen: why low-carbon fuels are not benefiting from high fossil fuel prices
- Wind turbines are already skyscraper-sized – is there any limit to how big they will get?
- Skiing in the Alps faces a bleak future thanks to climate change
- 1.5°C: where the target came from – and why we’re losing sight of its importance
- The days of the hydrogen car are already over
- Our US$10 trillion global energy bill dwarfs what’s needed to limit global heating
- Pakistan floods: ancient grains like millet could be key to rebuilding food systems
- Global carbon emissions at record levels with no signs of shrinking, new data shows. Humanity has a monumental task ahead
- Climate change: carbon offsetting isn’t working – here’s how to fix it
- COP27: a year on from the Glasgow climate pact, the world is burning more fossil fuels than ever
- These air conditioner alternatives are cheaper – and better for the planet
- The Horn of Africa has had years of drought, yet groundwater supplies are increasing – why?
- Glaciers in the Alps are melting faster than ever – and 2022 was their worst summer yet
- To address climate change, lifestyles must change – but the government’s reluctance to help is holding us back
- Coastal erosion is unstoppable – so how do we live with it?
- Climate tipping points could lock in unstoppable changes to the planet – how close are they?
- Climate change: the fairest way to tax carbon is to make air travel more expensive
- Hurricane Ian: how climate change is making North Atlantic tropical storms worse
- ‘Dark data’ is killing the planet – we need digital decarbonisation
- ‘Decarbonisation is too expensive’ – how to sell climate change action to bean counters
- Direct air capture: how advanced is technology to suck up carbon dioxide – and could it slow climate change?
- ‘Too afraid to have kids’ – how BirthStrike for Climate lost control of its political message
- Fracking: if Liz Truss wants a major shale gas industry, she is 280 million years late
- Net zero: Copenhagen’s failure to meet its 2025 target casts doubt on other major climate plans
- Why the aviation industry must look beyond carbon to get serious about climate change
- Desalination may be key to averting global water shortage, but it will take time
- A climate scientist on the planet’s simultaneous disasters, from Pakistan’s horror floods to Europe’s record drought
- Why we should abandon the concept of the ‘climate refugee’
- What could we do to cool the Arctic, specifically?
- The world’s biggest ice sheet is more vulnerable to global warming than scientists previously thought
- Britain’s notoriously wet and cold climate is changing – you won’t like what replaces it
- Fast fashion: why your online returns may end up in landfill – and what can be done about it
- Heatwave-proofing your home could save your life – and shrink your carbon footprint
- Three reasons concrete doesn’t live up to its environmental claims
- Heatwaves: why ethnic minorities in the UK are more vulnerable, and what to do about it
- How likely would Britain’s 40°C heatwave have been without climate change?
- Why UK railways can’t deal with heatwaves – and what might help
- If we want to build truly sustainable cities, we need to think about how women use energy and space
- Energy charter treaty makes climate action nearly illegal in 52 countries – so how can we leave it?
- The UK urgently needs to cut its methane emissions by 2030: cows and sheep hold the key to success
- Methane emissions reach new highs despite pandemic – they are four times more sensitive to climate change than first thought
- Here are the most effective things you can do to fight climate change
- Climate change: wildfire risk has grown nearly everywhere – but we can still influence where and how fires strike
- Insulate Britain or miss net zero
- Human disruption to Earth’s freshwater cycle has exceeded the safe limit, our research shows
- Eco-friendly tech comes with its own environmental costs: that’s why it’s vital to cut energy demand now
- Sustainable investment: want a green place to start putting your money away? Here’s what you need to know
- Gas prices: as cooking fuels become more expensive, people are turning to dirtier alternatives
- The ‘carbon footprint’ was co-opted by fossil fuel companies to shift climate blame – here’s how it can serve us again
- Climate change: efficiency labels really do encourage less energy use – but there’s a better way of using them
- Climate change: UK’s net zero target is under threat because there’s no plan to pay for it
- Cryptocurrency price collapse offers hope for slowing climate change – here’s how
- Climate change isn’t just making cyclones worse, it’s making the floods they cause worse too – new research
- Climate breakdown: even if we miss the 1.5°C target we must still fight to prevent every single increment of warming
- Climate change: carbon labels and clever menu design can cut the impact of dining – new study
- Electric car supplies are running out – and could drastically slow down the journey to net-zero
- India heatwave: why the region should prepare for even more extreme heat in the near future
- Relying on carbon capture to solve the climate crisis risks pushing our problems into the next generation’s path
- How to survive a heatwave
- Here’s one way to burn less fossil fuel – use human energy to heat buildings instead
- Climate change triggering global collapse in insect numbers: stressed farmland shows 63% decline – new research
- Here’s why UK tides are soon going to play a much bigger part in powering your home
- 12 best ways to get cars out of cities – ranked by new research
- Slow fashion: saving the planet with style
- Why UK’s ‘treasured free-market economy’ will not achieve net zero
- No space for a heat pump? Here’s how your whole street could get off gas heating
- Oceans and their largest inhabitants could be the key to storing our carbon emissions
- Any plans to dim the Sun and cool the Earth must be led by those most affected by climate change
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