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Switzerland’s greenhouse gas emissions are a rounding error
A recent landmark court ruling shows the limits of emissions activism
Apr 15
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Quico Toro
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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.
Apr 12
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Quico Toro
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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.
Apr 10
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Quico Toro
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March 2024
Our climate taboos aren't rational
A climatologist from Andromeda would find our climate change debate properly insane.
Mar 18
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Quico Toro
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Our climate taboos aren't rational
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It's 45 degrees in the shade in South Sudan
And nobody has air conditioning.
Mar 14
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Quico Toro
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February 2024
COVID and the Climate
An exercise in developing our intuition for climate scale
Feb 27
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Quico Toro
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Learning to Think at Climate Scale
Why intuitions fail us when thinking on a planetary scale.
Feb 23
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Quico Toro
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Emergency Brake
A parable of solar geoengineering
Feb 22
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Quico Toro
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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.
Feb 21
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Quico Toro
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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.
Feb 19
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Quico Toro
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Como derrotar a un estado mafioso
My recent article in The Atlantic, en español
Feb 17
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Quico Toro
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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…
Feb 15
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Quico Toro
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