Jorge E. Vinuales (Cambridge): The Paris Climate Agreement: An Initial Examination. The decisions we make about climate change today will reverberate for millennia — no pressure. David Roberts on why zero is a better climate target than 2 degrees. Jeremy Schulman on how 19 big-name corporations plan to make money off the climate crisis. Coal lobby boss says industry “will be hated like slave-traders” after COP21. Savor this moment, climate activists — this year is going to get ugly. We’ll always have Paris: The historic climate agreement struck in December has yet to be signed, and already has suffered one setback after another. Politicians aren’t talking about climate — maybe that’s good. Schools are doing a terrible job teaching your kids about global warming. Ezra Markowitz and Lisa Zaval on the secret to making people care about climate change: Make them think about their legacy.
Who politicized the environment and climate change? It wasn’t the Green Party. Wait, Harvard Law School’s leading liberal Laurence Tribe is trying to gut essential climate-change regulations? Eric Holthaus on what Scalia’s death might mean for climate change. Eduardo Porter on how the next Supreme Court Justice will be crucial to climate change. Rebecca Leber on how Antonin Scalia’s successor could determine the fate of the planet (and more). Planet on the ballot: It appears that the goal of drastically reducing emissions is within reach, but the wrong leader could still get in the way of saving the planet.
Will extreme weather events get Americans to act on climate change? New evidence shows global climate change began way back in 1610. In Zika epidemic, a warning on climate change. Our hemisphere’s temperature just reached a terrifying milestone.
