PLOS ONE 15 Year Anniversary: Staff Editors’ Favorites
EveryONE,
This year, PLOS ONE celebrates its 15 year anniversary. Over this period the journal has published over a quarter of a million…
Amplifying feedbacks from land and ocean may render emission reductions insufficient
Arctic News,
by Andrew GliksonFigure 1. Comparison of atmospheric samples contained in ice cores and more recent direct measurements…
Glasgow and global warming to 2⁰C and beyond
Arctic News,
by Andrew Glikson“Burning all fossil fuels would create a different planet” (Hansen, 2016)While at present the world is…
How Biden’s Policy Could Bring Positive Changes to the American West
Counter Punch,
President Biden today issued an Executive Order outlining a broad and ambitious policy to tackle the climate crisis. It…
Where are future generations in newspaper coverage of climate change?
Sociology Lens,
Climate change is accelerating – and will impact most on children and those yet to be born. The failure to halt the relentless…
Latest Youth Climate Lawsuit Filed Against 33 European Countries Over Human Rights
DeSmogBlog,
Read time: 7 minsSix young people from Portugal have filed an unprecedented climate change lawsuit against almost all of Europe…
CO2 Levels Break Record,
Stan Van Houcke ,
CO2 Levels Break Record, Hitting New High
In Another Record 'We Should Not Be Breaking,' Daily Average of CO2 Levels Hits High of 418.12 ppm
Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community,
Jessica Corbett, staff writerClimate scientists and campaigners reiterated their demands for urgent global action to…
The portent of runaway greenhouse warming
Arctic News,
by Andrew GliksonEarth and climate scientistAustralian National UniversityCarbon, the essential element underpinning…
Climate technology primer (1/3): basics
LINK: Study demonstrates politically motivated innumeracy - Less Wrong,
Published on October 25, 2019 11:18 PM UTCThis is my first post here, cross-posted from https://longitudinal.blog/co2-series-part…
PLOS Stands with #ClimateStrike
The Student Blog,
0000-0002-6635-8182 This is a republished post in an effort to share PLOS posts relevant to early career researchers. Read the…
PLOS Stands with #ClimateStrike
Public Library of Science,
0000-0002-7455-4909“Rapid emissions reduction is required to restore Earth’s energy balance and avoid ocean heat uptake that…
Warming and the Pipelines
The Energy Collective - The world's best thinkers on energy & climate,
In the 2005 paper Earth’s Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications, a team led by James Hansen introduced the concept of…
Making a home for the Physical Sciences and Engineering in PLOS ONE
Public Library of Science,
0000-0002-9890-5451Calling all physicists, chemists, earth scientists, computer scientists and engineers: help PLOS ONE make…
Coal formation sucked so much CO2 out of the atmosphere that Earth nearly froze over 300 million years ago
ZME Science,
"It is quite an irony that forming the coal that today is a major factor for dangerous global warming once almost lead to…
Cutting emissions isn't enough, we need to start removing carbon from the atmosphere
Forum:Blog,
Studies suggest that staying within safe warming levels now requires removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Green Jobs and Intergenerational Justice: Trump’s Climate Order Undermines Both
Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community,
Dana DrugmandWith the stroke of a pen, President Trump has written off both the biggest economic development opportunity of the…
Which Latin American countries are best prepared to tackle climate change?
Forum:Blog,
How climate-resilience is Latin America? This is how countries across the region compare.
We Can’t Simply Bet on Renewable Energy to Stop Global Warming
The Energy Collective - The world's best thinkers on energy & climate,
Photo…
Guest Post: Without a longer-term view, the Paris Agreement will lock in warming for centuries
Climate Citizen,
Eelco Rohling, Australian National…
The scientist who first warned of climate change says it’s much worse than we thought
Grist,
The rewards of being right about climate change are bittersweet. James Hansen should know this better than most — he warned of th…
We’re Halfway to Global Warming’s 'Dangerous Limit'
Motherboard RSS Feed,
Scientists and climate leaders have pegged 2˚ Celsius (3.6˚ F) as the degree of temperature rise to which we must, at all costs…
All eyes on the oceans: James Hansen and sea level rise
PLOS Blogs Network » Guest Post,
By Sasha Wright Originally posted on PLOS Ecology Field Reports blog on August 10, 2015 On July 23, James Hansen and 16 co-author…
All eyes on the oceans: James Hansen and sea level rise
PLOS Blogs Network » Guest Post,
By Sasha Wright Originally posted on PLOS Ecology Field Reports blog on August 10, 2015 On July 23, James Hansen and 16 co-author…
Updated: The climate change papers most featured in the media
The Carbon Brief,
In our recent series on the top climate change papers, we brought you which ones scientists think are the most influential…
Analysis climate change papers most featured in the media
The Carbon Brief,
In this week's series on the top climate change papers, we've seen which ones scientists think are the most influential and…
Gaius Publius: The Only Solution to Climate Change — Outlaw Fossil Fuel Production
naked capitalism,
Limiting greenhouse gas production requires more radical measures to reduce fossil fuel use, and that means on production as…
Fall Schedule of PLOS /r/science AMAs Announced
Public Library of Science,
PLOS Science Wednesday is a weekly science communication series featuring live, direct chats with PLOS authors on redditscience …
A Matter Of Degrees: Why 2C Warming Is Officially Unsafe
IFLScience - Environment,
Environment Photo credit: We cross the 2C threshold at our peril. Shawn Carpenter/Flickr, CC BY-SA The goal…
Bounding the Planetary Future: Why We Need a Great Transition
Resilience,
We need an integrated approach, one that reconnects human development with the biosphere.
Forest degradation as bad for climate as deforestation, says report
The Carbon Brief,
Degradation of tropical forests could be as severe a problem as full-scale deforestation when it comes to their carbon …
Why the Miocene Matters (and doesn’t) Today
Skeptical Science,
Past climate changes are analogs, albeit imperfect ones, for our modern climate change. Despite the differences between such…
Two Weeks Into 2015, The Air Already Has A Troubling Amount Of CO2 In It
ThinkProgress » Climate Progress,
CREDIT…
Mining the Climate Data
The Energy Collective - The world's best thinkers on energy & climate,
It is confounding to understand how otherwise highly technically literate individuals can be collectively blind to the climate…
Announcing the Latest Update to the Responding the Climate Change Collection
Public Library of Science - PLoS ONE Blog,
New research added to the PLOS Responding to Climate Change Collection In December 2013 PLOS ONE published a unique article…
Meet PLOS at AGU 2014
Public Library of Science - PLoS ONE Blog,
PLOS ONE is excited to return to the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting (AGU 2014) for a third consecutive year. The…
What Is the Carbon Limit? That Depends Who You Ask
Resilience,
Scientists are offering widely varying estimates of how much carbon we can emit into the atmosphere without causing dangerous…
What Is the Carbon Limit? That Depends Who You Ask
Yale Environment 360,
Scientists are offering widely varying estimates of how much carbon we can emit into the atmosphere without causing dangerous…
Diving into the haystack to make more hay?
PLOS Tech,
Diving into the haystack to make hay is one of the most inefficient activities imaginable (as well as a figurative absurdity).
Is the Anthropocene a world of hope or a world of hurt?
Grist,
Is it possible that a world swarming with humanity, warmed by our fumes, and depleted by our carelessness could in any way be…
PLOS launches Responding to Climate Change Collection
Public Library of Science - PLoS ONE Blog,
The post PLOS launches Responding to Climate Change Collection appeared first on EveryONE.
The urgent voice who refused to be silenced on climate danger
Simple Climate,
Amid censorship controversy at NASA, arrests and providing evidence in legal cases fighting global warming, Jim Hansen revised…
The urgent voice who refused to be silenced on climate danger
Simple Climate,
Amid censorship controversy at NASA, arrests and providing evidence in legal cases fighting global warming, Jim Hansen revised…
How The U.S. Natural Gas Boom Just Caused More U.S. Coal Exports
ThinkProgress » Climate Progress,
CREDIT…
Science and the Evangelical Communities: Earnest, Imperfect Steps Forward
Communication Breakdown,
Image: Guro AspenesEditor’s Note: This is a guest post from Jen Davison, a research scientist and science communicator at the…
Dahr Jamail - Il segnapunti del cambiamento climatico
Effetto Cassandra,
Da “Tomdispatch”. Traduzione di MR Da quando un'arma nucleare e' stata lanciata su Hiroshima, abbiamo vissuto con visioni di…
This Is President Obama’s Plan To Get The World On Board The Fight Against Climate Change
ThinkProgress » Climate Progress,
CREDIT: Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty…
Connecting all the dots – looking at the research paper
PLOS Tech,
Research catalyzes research, which catalyzes more research… At PLOS, we’re connecting the dots between our publications…
Jeffrey Sachs: On climate, more ‘now’ and ‘how’ is needed
Retort,
To hear Jeffrey D. Sachs tell it, if humanity manages to avert catastrophic warming from manmade greenhouse gases, it won’t be…
PLOS ONE at AGU 2013
Public Library of Science - PLoS ONE Blog,
PLOS ONE is excited to participate in the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Fall Meeting 2013, held this week in San…
This Week in the RFF Library Blog
Common Resources,
Each week, we review the papers, studies, reports, and briefings posted at the “indispensable” RFF Library Blog, curated by RFF…
Weekend Reading: Mandela and divestment; National Academy of Sciences on "Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change"; Hansen et al. on "Assessing 'Dangerous Climate Change'"; denialists on AMS climate survey
ClimateScienceWatch,
A few highlights from our weekend reading: (1) Joe Romm at Climate Progress on "Nelson Mandela's Legacy for Climate Hawks;" (2) A…
2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #49B
Skeptical Science,
ALEC calls for penalties on 'freerider…
Is Bjorn Lomborg right to say fossil fuels are what poor countries need? | Graham Readfearn
Science news, comment and analysis | theguardian.com,
Danish author uses low-ball estimates of climate costs and ignores fossil fuel subsidiesWhat do the poorest people on the…
Top scientists propose ambitious plans to safeguard world from devastating climate change
Mongabay.com news,
Two degrees is too much: that's the conclusion of a landmark new paper by top economists and climatologists, including James…
Dangerous Global Warming Closer than You Think, Climate Scientists Say
Per Square Mile,
David Biello, reporting for Scientific American: Abrupt climate change is not only imminent, it’s already here. The rapid…
New Paper Offers Sweeping Plan to Decarbonize the Global Economy
Yale Environment 360,
Eighteen prominent international climate scientists and economists have authored a paper that seeks to answer the most vexing…
UN's 2C target will fail to avoid a climate disaster, scientists warn
Science news, comment and analysis | theguardian.com,
Global warming limit agreed is too late and dangerous as a 1C rise in temperature will trigger catastrophic events, study…
James Hansen and Colleagues Offer Evidence for a Disruptive Call to Action
Public Library of Science - PLoS ONE Blog,
The article PLOS ONE publishes today from James Hansen and colleagues, “Assessing Dangerous Climate Change: Required Reduction…
Q
Retort,
While working for NASA back in 1988, James Hansen became one of the first climatologists to sound the alarm about global…
Dangerous Climate Change, Reconsidered
Retort,
If we take the dangers of future global warming seriously, then nothing is more important for curbing them than to immediately…