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The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction, Volume One (2024) edited by Bill Gillard, a short story collection that makes the argument that the literature of climate change started much earlier than the critical consensus would have it, as early as the 1870s when the effects of industrialization were being explored by science-fiction writers ...
The 2019 IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate defines a tipping point as: "A level of change in system properties beyond which a system reorganises, often in a non-linear manner, and does not return to the initial state even if the drivers of the change are abated. For the climate system, the term refers to a ...
Climate change can also be used more broadly to include changes to the climate that have happened throughout Earth's history. [32] Global warming—used as early as 1975 [33] —became the more popular term after NASA climate scientist James Hansen used it in his 1988 testimony in the U.S. Senate. [34] Since the 2000s, climate change has ...
Hailed as the first truly global climate deal, it commits both rich and poor nations to reining in rising emissions blamed for warming the planet. Climate deal unveiled in Paris, a 'historic ...
Climate change, which has been building dramatically over the last 75 years, will be the impetus for the next great turning. The Observer: How climate change will shape the next great turning Skip ...
The review praised the book's ambition, but criticised it for not discussing climate change in science fiction, and was mixed on its structure. [ 1 ] Kirkus Reviews gave a positive review, calling it a "slim but certainly significant contribution to the climate crisis dialogue sure to provoke discussion and increased awareness about our ...
After division over Russia's war in Ukraine, differences about climate change goals have emerged as another stumbling block for G20 leaders to iron out at their two-day meeting in New Delhi, six ...
The time from roughly 15,000 to 5,000 BCE was a time of transition, and swift and extensive environmental change, as the planet was moving from an Ice age, towards an interstadial (warm period). Sea levels rose dramatically (and are continuing to do so ), land that was depressed by glaciers began lifting up again , forests and deserts expanded ...