Climate

Bill Gates on the climate crisis: ‘I can’t deny being a rich guy with an opinion’

The Guardian: There are two numbers you need to know about climate change. The first is 51bn. The other is zero. Fifty-one billion is how many tons of greenhouse gases…

Southern water stymies the Atlantic Ocean’s overturning circulation

Physics Today: In 2019 a team of oceanographers published the first data set of continuous observations of the Atlantic Ocean’s meridional overturning circulation (AMOC)—the ocean dynamics process that brings warm, salty, tropical water to the North Atlantic where it sinks and…

Bill Gates-Backed Climate Solution Gains Traction, But Concerns Linger

Forbes: Extreme shifts in weather patterns not dissimilar to warming trends we are already witnessing. Environmentalists similarly fear that a dramatic shift in mitigation strategy will be treated as a green light to continue emitting greenhouse gases with little to…

This burp-catching mask for cows could slow down climate change

Wired UK: There are 1.6 billion cattle on Earth, and their burps and farts are becoming a big problem. Cows expel methane, a colourless and odourless gas which is approximately 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide when it comes to…