by William Rau • • Comments Off on Heat Waves — In Red & Black: Are crucial currents shutting down; is tipping point close?
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current helps regulate global temperatures; ice melt from ice sheets and decreases in salinity could create problems over course of decades, not centuries
by William Rau • • Comments Off on Heat Waves — In Red & Black: Tipping points make for a planetary emergency
A tipping point occurs when a temperature crosses a no-return threshold. Think of leaning back in a chair further and further. With better climate data, improved resolution of climate systems, and more accurate climate models, we know we have moved into the danger zone
by William Rau • • Comments Off on Heat Waves — In Red & Black: How many lifeboats were on the Titanic?
The world is just about as ill-prepared for the next climate disaster as the doomed steamship. Even serious planning will fail if we limit ourselves to standard command-and-control disaster protocols.
by William Rau • • Comments Off on Heat Waves — In Red & Black: U.S. mixing it up in War in Ukraine
Providing Ukraine with our military aid/technology also improves our own security. It allows the U.S. to restock what we send from our armories with new, often with more advanced, replacements. Have Republicans forgotten this?