Energy Central
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
"Not the End of the World" is the title of a fine book by Hannah Ritchie. I particularly enjoyed the discussion of how countries fixed the ozone layer. So much so that I even borrowed the poorly reproduced graph of which I could not find on reverse image search. By the 1960s scientists began to understand the.
GreenBiz
MAY 16, 2020
What continues to define these people as "deniers" in my book is their unshaken belief that climate change is simply no big deal and there is no reason to go out of our way to prevent more of it. More often, it is implicitly built into the conversation, as it was in so many other public debates, like those over leaded gas, ozone and tobacco.
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Grist
MARCH 11, 2024
The atmospheric chemist had won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for demonstrating how humanity was destroying the ozone layer, just one of the many ways people had radically altered the planet, from urbanization to releasing greenhouse gases. I was very struck that geologists were describing humanity as a geological force,” he said.
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 12, 2024
It has also yet to be determined how to account for likely leaks of hydrogen — which is considered an “indirect” greenhouse gas because it causes chemical reactions that affect concentrations of methane, ozone, and stratospheric water vapor, as well as aerosols. And how to ensure such certifications are accurate?
Business Green
JANUARY 28, 2022
Her speech to the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, which Sir Crispin had a central role in conceiving, elevated climate change, ozone depletion and other environmental issues in the international arena and helped usher in the UN climate convention in 1992. He will be much missed.".
Grist
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Her recent book Back To Earth pairs fun astronaut trivia (you can take a “shower” by “gently squeezing hot water out of the straw of a drink bag directly onto your body and watching it coat you like a second skin”) with facts about pressing environmental issues — climate change, microplastics, and the insect apocalypse.
Grist
DECEMBER 21, 2019
When women do engage on geoengineering issues, they do so largely through a governance and ethics lens, says Tina Sikka, a critical race and gender theorist at Newcastle University who published a book on solar geoengineering last year. But in terms of actually working on the science, “there are almost no women.”.
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