Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Catastrophe looms for the problematic puffin. The likeable comically shaped and cartoonishly colored birds that are the emblematic symbol of Iceland and are the official bird symbol for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, are definitely doomed if something isn’t done. Or so we’ve been told. Headlines scream:…
OCTOBER 5, 2018 – More than 100 leading scholars from 12 countries have issued a report contending “the global war on fossil fuels … was never founded on sound science or economics” and urging the world’s policymakers to “acknowledge this truth and end that war.” The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), an independent…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Does the world truly not care about how they feel? Climate scientists are struggling to find the right words for very bad news By Chris Mooney & Brady Dennis 6 October 2018 — 12:00am In Incheon, South Korea, this week, representatives of more than 130 countries and about 50 scientists…
Caution urged over use of ‘carbon unicorns’ to limit warming By Matt McGrath Climate scientists meeting in Korea are being urged to avoid relying on untested technologies as a way of keeping global temperature rise under 1.5C. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will shortly publish a report on how the world might stay below…