Thwaites Glacier

It's really kind of a wild experience. Seeing is believing.

Useful link: https://thwaitesglacier.org

Random Thoughts

If we keep abusing nature it will collapse, and take us with it. I don't know if a new mindset will make any difference. 

United In Science: We Are Heading In The Wrong Direction

A new multi-agency report coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization, which highlights the huge gap between aspirations and reality is clear. The physical and socioeconomic impacts of climate change will be increasingly devastating. The report is a must read.

Useful link:

https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/united-science-we-are-heading-wrong-direction

Speed And Scale Tracker

A new tool looks at how the world is doing on reaching net zero emissions by 2050

Useful link: https://speedandscale.com/tracker

The Wine And Climate Change Institute

Climate change and its erratic weather patterns will change the world's wine map. Regions will disappear and others will emerge. Nature has no rules. Get to know Linda Johnson-Bell.

Useful link: https://twacci.org

WMO Climate Update

It's about us. Climate experts predict the earth is close to crossing 1.5 degrees Celsius within 5 years. 

Useful link:

https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/wmo-update-5050-chance-of-global-temperature

Art To Acres

Conservation for climate. Support for indigenous people. Biodiversity. A brilliant Galleries Commit initiative.  

Useful links:

https://art-to-acres-com.webnode.com

https://www.galleriescommit.com

IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

The latest climate change report from the IPCC makes it clear that we need to build cities differently, as part of a long list of solutions that the world needs to quickly deploy to have a chance of avoiding the worst impacts of climate change. We need more 15 minutes cities around the world. Must read.

Useful link:

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3

Irrevocable Carbon

Insightful report. The world need to do the right thing to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Take a look.

Useful link:

https://www.conservation.org/projects/irrecoverable-carbon

Random Thoughts

Climate change is a business opportunity, because it will require that virtually every segment of industry will have to be reinvented. Getting to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 (?) is going to require a revolution in the production of everything we produce, and a revolution in everything we consume. The process of creating fuel, food and construction materials, with all the needs that we have as humanity, it all has to be reinvented. And that's going to require a large amount of investment, a large amount of ingenuity and a large amount of innovation.

This Climate Does Not Exist

You can look up any address---your house, landmarks---and get a surprisingly realistic sense of what it could look like if that place was struck by flood, wildfires or smog. The website which does this by using AI trained on images of such scenes to re-imagine pictures from Google Street View, was created by researchers at Mila, an AI research institute in Montreal.

Useful links:

https://thisclimatedoesnotexist.com

https://mila.quebec/en/ai-society/visualizing-climate-change

Survive The Century

Climate change and its impacts. Get to know Sam Beckbessinger, Simon Nicholson, and Christopher Trisos. 

Useful link: https://survivethecentury.net

Picturing Our Future

Over to you.

Useful link: https://picturing.climatecentral.org

Waterplan

The new startup wants to make it easier for companies to understand risks from water (or lack thereof), starting with water accounting and evaluating the risks of water shortages. Water risk and climate change are real.

Useful link: https://www.waterplan.com

Random Thoughts

The story is simple. Climate change is happening faster than anticipated. One consequence---the loss of ice in the polar regions---is also a driver for more rapid global heating and disastrously rapid global sea level rise.

Unknown Amazon With Pedroa Andrade

Pedroa Andrade's new show, 'Unknown Amazon with Pedroa Andrade,' on VICE chronicles the Amazon's critical role in the battle against climate change and the disappearing lives of people who live in the Amazon region. Must watch.

Useful links:

https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/show/unknown-amazon-with-pedro-andrade

https://canaisglobo.globo.com/assistir/globonews/manhattan-connection

Aerial

Aerial, whose app allows users to offset their carbon emissions, has now turned to offsetting the carbon costs associated with environmentally costly NFT drops. Take a look.

Useful link: https://www.aerial.is/nft

Heard On The Street

The scariest thing about climate change isn't the weather---it's us.

Coffee x Climate Change

I love coffee. Coffee, like wine, gets some of the complexity of its flavor from slower  maturation. That's probably one of the first things that climate change will impact. You can start impacting both flavors and production qualities. Eventually, once it gets super hot enough, you might get to a situation where the plant just can't even survive anymore. Let's collaborate on solutions.

Useful links: https://www.fastcompany.com/90579241/how-to-save-coffee-from-climate-change I http://ccsi.columbia.edu/files/2018/04/Ensuring-Economic-Viability-and-Sustainability-of-Coffee-Production-CCSI-2019.pdf I https://worldcoffeeresearch.org

Deep Frozen Arctic Microbes Are Waking Up

What long-frozen organisms might wake up? We have a known known, known unknown, and unknown unknown situation. We must come up with guidelines for future Arctic research. As travel through the region increases, the likelihood of pathogen export and import rises as well. We are living in interesting times.

Useful link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep-frozen-arctic-microbes-are-waking-up