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:
- 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
- IPCC finds the world has its best chance yet to slash emissions – if it seizes the opportunity
- Climate change: greener lifestyles linked to greater happiness – in both rich and poor countries
- Can nuclear power secure a path to net zero?
- Planting trees can help the climate, but only if we also stop burning fossil fuels
- How a deluge of lockdown volunteers rescued UK’s hidden weather history
- Will war in Ukraine hasten the end of fossil fuels?
- Record-smashing heatwaves are hitting Antarctica and the Arctic simultaneously. Here’s what’s driving them, and how they’ll impact wildlife
- In a rush to replace Russian gas, the EU has damaged its own climate change strategy
- Individual climate action – the free and instant way to help Ukraine
- As sea levels rise, coastal megacities will need more than flood barriers
- What your T-shirt reveals about ‘carbon colonialism’ and the global economy’s vast hidden emissions
- How to keep buildings cool without air conditioning – according to an expert in sustainable design
- Tyre Extinguishers: activists are deflating SUV tyres in the latest pop-up climate movement
- The original climate crisis – how the little ice age devastated early modern Europe
- Is the Amazon rainforest on the verge of collapse?
- IPCC report: how politics – not climate change – is responsible for disasters and conflict
- Mass starvation, extinctions, disasters: the new IPCC report’s grim predictions, and why adaptation efforts are falling behind
- Climate change is warping our fresh water cycle – and much faster than we thought
- Climate change: effect on forests could last millennia, ancient ruins suggest
- Low-technology: why sustainability doesn’t have to depend on high-tech solutions
- Climate crisis and the dangers of tech-obsessed ‘long-termism’
- Ferns: the houseplants that reveal how tropical rainforests are responding to climate change
- We’re all radioactive – so let’s stop being afraid of it
- We reconstructed Britain of millions of years ago to see what climate breakdown will involve
- Trying to cool the Earth by dimming sunlight could be worse than global warming
- Natural gas is a fossil fuel, but the EU will count it as a green investment – here’s why
- How climate change is washing away precious evidence of our distant past
- Three reasons why climate change models are our best hope for understanding the future
- Coffee may become more scarce and expensive thanks to climate change – new research
- Methane in the atmosphere is at an all-time high – here’s what it means for climate change
- Radical overhaul of construction industry needed if UK to have any chance of net zero by 2050 – new research
- Four surprising ways climate change is affecting people’s health in England and Wales
- Ireland has the wind and seas to become an offshore superpower
- Ocean heat is at record levels, with major consequences
- Technology has made buildings less climate-friendly: but we can look back in time for solutions
- Unusually calm and cloudy weather led to resurgence in fossil fuel use in 2021
- Deforestation is causing more storms in west Africa, finds 30-year satellite study
- Energy prices are unlikely to fall in 2022 or beyond – not until major importers get serious about green transition
- Africa faces an uphill battle against western emissions to combat climate change
- Don’t Look Up shows bashing people over the head with facts does not work
- UK net zero strategies are overlooking something vital: how to cool buildings amid rising temperatures
- Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier: how its collapse could trigger global floods and swallow islands
- COP26 agreed rules on trading carbon emissions – but they’re fatally flawed
- How climate change and extreme weather may lead to food shortages and escalating prices
- Here’s what it would take to end emissions from fossil fuels
- Carbon capture and storage: where should the world store CO₂? It’s a moral dilemma
- Floods are going to get worse: we need to start preparing for them now
- Government must back UK train travel or risk long-term retreat to cars
- Why increased rainfall in the Arctic is bad news for the whole world
- Electric cars aren’t enough to hit climate targets: we need to develop better public transport too
- Canada’s flood havoc after summer heatwave shows how climate disasters combine to do extra damage
- Coal: why China and India aren’t the climate villains of COP26
- Electric cars could one day power your house – here’s how to make it happen
- COP26 deal: how rich countries failed to meet their obligations to the rest of the world
- Embodied carbon: why truly net zero buildings could still be decades away
- COP26: what the draft agreement says – and why it’s being criticised
- Claims of COP26’s success have been unpicked – but political journalists have repeated the spin
- COP26: how the world’s militaries hide their huge carbon emissions
- COP26: meat eating is a big climate issue – but isn’t getting the attention it deserves
- If we don’t learn from past climate disasters, they will claim more lives in the future
- Shipping emissions must fall by a third by 2030 and reach zero before 2050 – new research
- Global emissions almost back to pre-pandemic levels after unprecedented drop in 2020, new analysis shows
- Why climate change poses a threat to central banks
- COP26: what would the world be like at 3°C of warming and how would it be different from 1.5°C?
- Why tackling deforestation is so important for slowing climate change
- COP26: here’s how much progress the UK has made on three key net zero pledges
- We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning
- Young climate activists have far more power than they realise
- Climate change: how economists underestimated benefits of action for decades
- Electric boilers: a green alternative to heat pumps that no one is talking about
- Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future – not skyscrapers
- How to know if a country is serious about net zero: look at its plans for extracting fossil fuels
- What Europe’s exceptionally low winds mean for the future energy grid
- The term ‘Anthropocene’ isn’t perfect – but it shows us the scale of the environmental crisis we’ve caused
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