Tag: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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SOLUTIONS: Coming together on CO2
By Huck Fairman As a recent Sierra Club magazine article reminded us, CO2 is an essential ingredient in our atmosphere and biosphere. It flows into plants and the oceans, into rocks and the soil through decomposition. Most of the planet’s CO2 is stored in rocks. But lately we have been changing the balance. By burning…
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SOLUTIONS 3/18: The Seas are Rising
By Huck Fairman Central New Jersey’s Sierra Club recently presented a Zoom talk on the accelerating rate of sea level rise, presented by Dr. Jennifer Walker of Rutgers University’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. With the rate of sea level rise increasing, New Jersey is particularly vulnerable to its impacts. There are a number…