Klimaat

Severe flooding has impacted large areas of the Southeast and Midwest United States in July 2025.

The shock by the catastrophic damage left by flooding can be felt across the country. The United States has been rocked by four one-in-a-thousand-year rainfall events in less than a week.

Verwoestende overstromingen teisteren New Mexico, en huiseigenaren in Ruidoso ervaren het ondenkbare.

What if we took out more greenhouse gases than we put into the atmosphere? This hypothetical scenario, known as "drawdown," is our only hope of averting climate disaster, says strategist Chad Frischmann. In a forward-thinking talk, he shares solutions to climate change that exist today -- conventional tactics like the use of renewable energy and better land management as well as some lesser-known approaches, like changes to food production, better family planning and the education of girls. Learn more about how we can reverse global warming and create a world where regeneration, not destruction, is the rule.

An alliance between the far right and Silicon Valley oligarchs has given rise to a form of "end times fascism," says journalist Naomi Klein, who details in a recent essay co-authored with Astra Taylor how many wealthy elites are preparing for the end of the world even as they contribute to growing inequality, political instability and the climate crisis. Klein says that while billionaires dream of escaping to bunkered enclaves or even to space, President Donald Trump and other right-wing leaders are turning their countries into militarized fortress states to keep out immigrants from abroad and ramp up authoritarian control domestically.

I chat about a very significant new paper on the atmospheric physics effect of aerosol forcing, which is known as “Global Dimming”. This paper is called “Observational Evidence of Strong Forcing from Aerosol Effect on Low Cloud Coverage”:

Dit artikel vat de recente stand van zaken samen inzake klimaatverandering en de spanning tussen wetenschap en het beleid..

De zee warmt snel op door de energieinbalans van de planeet. Elk uur drie atoombommen, miljarden elektrische haardrogers, zo probeert men de inbalans inzichtelijk te maken. Doordat er meer zonnenergie binnenkomt dan wordt uitgestraalt warmte de planeet op.

De desastreuze zware regenval en de daaropvolgende overstromingen in ons land en Duitsland, is extreem weer waarvan de intensiteit wordt versterkt door klimaatverandering. 

In het donderdag uitgebrachte rapport Van kolen tot Parijs zet Urgenda haar visie uiteen op 100% CO2-reductie in 2030. Hierbij wordt het leeuwendeel van de reductie bereikt door nieuwe zonnepanelen en energiebesparing. Opvallend is dat in het rapport gesteld wordt dat er niet veel extra windturbines op land en zonneweides nodig zijn.

Het demissionaire kabinet komt nog deze maand met een extra pakket klimaatmaatregelen. Dat is nodig om te voldoen aan het klimaatvonnis in de Urgenda-zaak, zo melden Haagse bronnen aan deze site. Boeren, bedrijven en kolencentrales moeten sneller CO2 besparen.

Interview with James Hansen, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change in 2016 jointly with Syukuro Manabe.