Climate & the Environment
What is happening to the planet and why: the physics of a warming atmosphere from the molecule up, the record and the models, the impacts here and coming, the other environmental problems, where the emissions come from, the solutions winning on cost and the sectors electricity does not reach, carbon removal and geoengineering, the politics and the economics, and adaptation. Brought to October: a record-hot August and a strengthening El Niño, the repeal of the federal endangerment finding and part of the power-plant standards, the shipping carbon-price vote set for December 4, and the Antalya climate summit in November. Where the field argues, over whether warming is speeding up, solar geoengineering, the cost and pace of the transition, and adaptation against cutting emissions, each side makes its case before the evidence. Three worked examples: one tonne of carbon dioxide from the tailpipe to the temperature, an American household's tonnes by source, and what removing a billion tonnes a year would take.** **