[Editor: This really is a very good piece on climate change and what to do about it!]

May 31, 2016

Oct. 27, 2020

Exclusive: expedition discovers new source of greenhouse gas off East Siberian coast has been triggered

Scientists have found evidence that frozen methane deposits in the Arctic Ocean – known as the “sleeping giants of the carbon cycle” – have started to be released over a large area of the continental slope off the East Siberian coast, the Guardian can reveal.

October 29th 2020

[This article might bring some comfort if it put a timeline on WHEN such risks could be quantified and then outlined how exactly that process would lead to creating a socially just and environmentally sane transition. Will knowing the investment risks make capitalists decide to do this? Will it create effective regulatory enforcement to compel capitalists to do this? Will it do anything at all that will begin the required transition SOON ENOUGH?

Oct 22, 2020

Back in 2006, when George W. Bush was president and the Paris Agreement was still a decade away, the city of Tucson, Arizona, made a modest plan to do something about climate change. It set a goal to reduce city-wide greenhouse gas emissions 7 percent below 1990 levels, and gave itself a generous 14 years to do it.