Jessica McKenzie

1 month ago | thebulletin.org | Jessica McKenzie

Much of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday was taken up by questions about the use of a private, encrypted messaging app by leaders of the US intelligence community to discuss the details of an upcoming attack on Yemen.

1 month ago | thebulletin.org | Toby R. Ault |Daniele Visioni |Peter Hitchcock |Jessica McKenzie

Members of NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory monitor a thunderstorm in Kansas, 2009. (Photo: Dr. Mike Coniglio, NOAA NSSL) An invisible river of information flows through our daily lives, powering American commerce and keeping all of us safe in our homes, offices, and on our roadways. Its keepers are the dutiful public servants at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service (NWS).

1 month ago | thebulletin.org | Jessica McKenzie

The following conversation with David Armstrong McKay, a lecturer and researcher at the University of Sussex and the lead author of a 2022 paper that reassessed the risk of all the tipping elements in the Earth system, is one of several interviews conducted for the March issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which is all about tipping points. You can find the other conversations here, and the rest of the magazine issue here. This interview has been lightly edited and condensed.

1 month ago | thebulletin.org | Jessica McKenzie

The following conversation with Thomas Stocker, a professor of Climate and Environmental Physics at the University of Bern and lead author of a 2024 article that argued for the necessity of a robust assessment of tipping points by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to establish much needed consensus on the topic, is one of several interviews conducted for the March issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which is all about tipping points.

1 month ago | thebulletin.org | Jessica McKenzie

The following conversation with Tim Lenton, the founding director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter and lead author of the 2008 paper that formally introduced the idea of tipping points within the Earth’s climate system, is one of several interviews conducted for the March issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which is all about tipping points. You can find the other conversations here, and the rest of the magazine issue here.