Global Warming
Climate Change Crisis: Earth Might Already Be Beyond 1.5 Degrees Celsius
Global temperatures have already exceeded 1.5°C warming and may pass 2°C later this decade, according to a world-first study I led. The worrying findings, based on temperature records contained in sea sponge...
UN Chief: World Is on the ‘Highway to Climate Hell’
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a stark warning at the COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Monday, contending that the lack of progress on climate change...
Climate Solutions: What Congress Can Learn From the Dutch Farmer Protests
If Congress hopes to pass lasting climate policy, it should take care to avoid the mistakes of our European allies. In the last few weeks, Dutch farmers have taken to...
Supreme Court Limits Government Authority to Curb Power Plant Emissions
The Supreme Court has dealt a major blow to the Biden administration’s climate change initiatives, limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) available options for limiting greenhouse gas emissions from existing...
Climate Change Has Become One of the Navy’s Biggest Challenges
The U.S. Navy is becoming more acutely aware of the detrimental impact climate change could have on military preparedness. As a result, they are holding wargames to play out what...
An Invisible Enemy: Navy Sees Climate Change as National Security Threat
The U.S. Navy just released a report that identifies one of the most serious threats facing the American military today—and it is not Russia or China. Instead, the document identifies...
Climate Change May Cost the United States $2 Trillion a Year
Droughts, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires caused by climate change could potentially cost the United States roughly $2 trillion annually, according to the White House. The eye-opening analysis conducted by the...
On Climate Change, Africa Is Where the Rubber Hits the Road
It only stands to reason that the rising generation on the continent most vulnerable to climate change is the most prepared to do something about it. While global leaders make...
U.S. Army Releases Its First Climate Strategy
Melting ice in the Arctic, skyrocketing heat in strategic areas, unpredictable weather patterns, and large-scale societal disruption are all growing concerns associated with the troubling phenomenon of climate change. While...
Double Threat: Is Australia Ready to Take on Climate Change and China?
Two recent foreign policy developments in Canberra are shaping Australia’s 21st-century national security agenda. The first is the AUKUS agreement, which has at its core a deep and strategically courageous...
Climate Change Is Putting America’s Largest Navy Base In Jeopardy
Here’s What You Need to Remember: The combination of climate change and defense austerity makes the United States particularly vulnerable, as it could become difficult to protect current assets and replace...
Climate Change Is Already Disrupting US Forests and Coasts
Record-breaking heat waves and drought have left West Coast rivers lethally hot for salmon, literally cooked millions of mussels and clams in their shells and left forests primed to burn. The extraordinary severity of...