The first day of COP28 started with an historic decision to establish a Loss and Damage Fund to help countries address the irreparable impacts of ongoing climate change on tangible and intangible assets. Loss and Damage negotiations have been ongoing since COP27 in...
Tonight I attended the Interfaith Gathering in the Spirit of Talanoa Dialogue at COP28, which was held at Christ Church Jebel Ali in Dubai, UAE. Talanoa is a problem solving method that involves group discussions around three questions: Where are we? Where do we want...
The conflict between fossil fuel operators and corporations and those working for a safe climate has recently coalesced around natural gas, which was once considered a more climate-friendly option to coal. Although burning natural gas releases about 50% the amount of...
Scientists are working to understand what caused Hurricane Otis, originally forecast to make landfall on the western coast of Mexico as a strong tropical storm or minimal hurricane, to explode in intensity overnight. Most forecast models missed this change, leaving...
Scientists continue to sound the alarm that deadly climate change has arrived, and that the impacts will continue to worsen if we as a global community cannot find a way to stop emitting greenhouse gasses by producing and burning fossil fuels. This summer, the hottest...
Kim Stanley Robinson’s book “The Ministry for the Future” opens with the story of an aid worker struggling to escape an extreme heatwave that knocks out the power grid and kills thousands of people unable to escape the heat. The book is fiction, but it is based on an...
