Climate change is first and foremost a threat to human society. That fact has been somewhat obscured in regular discourse, in favor of a false dichotomy portraying climate policy as an upper-middle-class noblesse oblige idea for anxious birders and other environmentalist types, and hardheaded economists who think building up yet more wealth is more important. In reality, one obvious way that threat to humanity is going to be expressed is through economic damage.

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  • New research investigates how climate change amplifies severity of combined wind-rain extremes over the UK and Ireland
    Climate change will cause an increase in extreme winter storms combining strong winds and heavy rainfall over the UK and Ireland, new research has shown.
    05/3/2024 - 7:07 am | View Link
  • Climate change threatens mountain meadows by reducing humus content, finds study
    Mountain meadows are unique ecosystems. A research team led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now discovered that climate change reduces the humus content as well as the nitrogen stores ...
    05/3/2024 - 6:10 am | View Link
  • Fact Check: Melting ice claim resurfaces to cast doubt over climate change
    An old meme image showing that ice cubes melting in a jug of water do not increase its volume is being shared online to imply that rising sea levels due to climate change are a hoax.
    05/3/2024 - 1:58 am | View Link
  • Survey finds about 20% of Germans worry about climate change daily
    Around one in five people in Germany worry about climate change every day, a survey by the auditing firm PwC has revealed. According to the survey, 19.8% of Germans said climate change worried them on ...
    05/1/2024 - 10:42 pm | View Link
  • Climate change is slowing Earth’s rotation
    Reckoned by atomic seconds, however, Earth’s full journey around the sun took 31,622,401.14. As a result, two additional seconds were added: the very first “leap seconds”. One, on June 30th that year, ...
    04/24/2024 - 7:12 am | View Link
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