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Switzerland’s greenhouse gas emissions are a rounding error
A recent landmark court ruling shows the limits of emissions activism
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Why the best climate solutions don't get a hearing
You can't win an argument if you sound like a Bond villain.
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Introducing 1% Brighter
If the earth was 1% brighter, it would stop warming. If we were 1% brighter, we'd make it so.
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Our climate taboos aren't rational
A climatologist from Andromeda would find our climate change debate properly insane.
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It's 45 degrees in the shade in South Sudan
And nobody has air conditioning.
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COVID and the Climate
An exercise in developing our intuition for climate scale
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Learning to Think at Climate Scale
Why intuitions fail us when thinking on a planetary scale.
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Emergency Brake
A parable of solar geoengineering
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The Basketcase Exception
Some developing countries have bucked the trend and reduced their greenhouse gas emissions. You wouldn't want to live there.
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Honing your greenhouse gas intuition
To have a minimally well thought out climate debate, you need some sense of where the problem is. No, it's not about Taylor Swift's damn plane.
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Como derrotar a un estado mafioso
My recent article in The Atlantic, en español
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Why Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are Going to Keep Rising
We could be mobilizing our awesome resources to help the developing world get off of fossil fuels. But we aren't. Because we're not over our nuclear…
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1% Brighter
1% Brighter
A substack on how to stop global warming with science, not guilt.
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