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1 month ago | 
theconversation.com | Jack Elliot Marley
Falling Tesla sales are a problem for Musk. The wider EV industry can appeal to a mass market.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
theconversation.com | Jack Elliot Marley
Academics glean grim portents – and some continuities with supposedly pro-climate presidents of the past.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
theconversation.com | Jack Elliot Marley
The fires that have engulfed Los Angeles cap the hottest decade in history. Each year in the last ten was record-warm, but 2024 was the warmest ever recorded. Last year, Earth was 1.6°C hotter than the temperature average of the late 19th century, which was before widespread fossil fuel burning had significantly altered the climate.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Jack Elliot Marley
Cop29, the 29th annual climate conference in Azerbaijan, came to an end on Sunday, and in its wake have come doubts about the UN process for negotiating a solution to global heating. “All this means we are still looking at a future with global warming above 3˚C,” say climate scientist Mark Maslin, infrastructure engineer Priti Parikh and international development expert Simon Chin-Yee at UCL.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Jack Elliot Marley
Gradually, then suddenly is how Ernest Hemingway described going bankrupt. The climate crisis could be on a similar trajectory. “It took a century for the globe to warm the first 0.3°C, but the world has warmed by 1°C in just the last 60 years,” says Ed Hawkins, a professor of climate science at the University of Reading. Read more: Cop29: How fast is Earth warming?
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Jack Elliot Marley
Donald Trump will return to lead the world’s largest historical emitter of greenhouse gas. Neither Trump nor Kamala Harris made the climate crisis a prominent feature of their campaigns, during an election cycle in which America was pounded by weather disasters. Hurricane Helene, which struck in late September was supercharged by an abnormally hot Atlantic Ocean and killed 232 people across the south-eastern US.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Jack Elliot Marley
By the end of 2024, nearly 200 nations will have met at three conferences to address three problems: biodiversity loss, climate change and plastic pollution. Colombia will host talks next week to assess global progress in protecting 30% of all land and water by 2030. Hot on its heels is COP29 in Azerbaijan. Here, countries will revisit the pledge they made last year in Dubai to “transition away” from the fossil fuels driving climate breakdown.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Jack Elliot Marley
Artificial intelligence (AI) is curating your social media feed and giving you directions to the train station. It’s also throwing the fossil fuel industry a lifeline. Three of the biggest tech companies, Microsoft, Google and Meta, have reported ballooning greenhouse gas emissions since 2020. Data centres packed with servers running AI programs day and night are largely to blame.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Jack Elliot Marley
Humanity may be no better prepared for the impacts of climate change today than in the 1970s. So says led by Stanford University researchers that compared how sensitive societies are to extreme weather now versus 50 years ago. This research has yet to be peer-reviewed, and its conclusions run counter to what many climate policy experts have long assumed.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.co.nz | Jack Elliot Marley
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jack Marley, Environment + Energy Editor, UK editionUnusually warm waters off the coast of Sicily helped spawn a “waterspout” that sank a superyacht earlier this week, leaving several people dead or missing. Tornadoes are among nature’s most terrifying spectacles. These rotating columns of air are called tornadoes when they form over land and waterspouts when they form over water, though there are subtle differences which we’ll get into.
