Climate records and effective mitigation

Climate change is accelerating and the effects are getting worse. We may have already crossed a threshold to Hothouse Earth. But in the real world, it’s still the economy, stupid.

Waking up to how serious a danger climate has become would mean a full, open conversation about responsible risk management and what responsible mitigation must mean: climate is an existentially threatening emergency that needs mitigation that isn’t happening and can’t happen in political and economic business as usual, writes Bill Henderson.Photograph courtesy of Cpl. Marc-André Leclerc, DND

Opinion

BY BILL HENDERSON

July 18, 2024

GIBSONS, B.C.—It’s been 13 straight months of off-the-charts global temperature records; 12 consecutive months with temperatures exc...

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