Most agree from the evidence that climate change probably began at the start of the Industrial Revolution. This is when machines were invented that ran on fossil fuels like oil, coal, and methane, and emitted greenhouse gases as waste products. These gases increase the amounts in the atmosphere that are emitted normally through the biological […]
Next on the Climate Change Hit List: The Internet.
Twenty five years ago, burying communications lines under road rights of way seemed like a great way to keep those increasingly crucial utilities protected from the elements. But as the climate has changed and sea levels continue to rise, many of those seemingly impregnable tunnels may soon fill up with seawater. That’s a huge potential […]
Documenting Iceland’s Vanishing Landscapes with Photojournalist Mich...
Michael Kienitz is a Madison-based photojournalist. He’s spent the last five years involved in a project to document vanishing ice caves and glacial formations in Vatnajokull National Park in southeast Iceland. His new body of work will be exhibited in an upcoming show at the Chazen Art Museum, with a preview reception on Thursday, September […]
The EPA’s New Coal Rules, Climate Change, and Energy Politics
Wildfires, flooding, hurricanes, drought, heat waves. “This summer is the summer where the impacts of climate change are really hitting us in the face,” says professor Michael Mann. He joins Esty today for the hour to put these record-breaking weather disasters in context and to offer critical updates on the state of energy politics globally […]
A Lost Opportunity on Climate Change
Climate change may seem like a recent concern, but we’ve known about the influence of human combustion of fossil fuels on the warming earth for at least one hundred years. The March 1912 issue of Popular Mechanics included an article warning of the impact burning coal, saying the warming effect “may be considerable in a […]
Global Wildfires Now Commonplace
The scorching of the American west shows no sign of abating, with 2018 wildfires covering almost 5 million acres and accounting for six deaths so far. Despite the U.S. Forest Service spending nearly half its diminished budget on firefighting, the fires still seem to have the upper hand. Cassandra Moseley is the Research Professor and […]
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