Carbon Dioxide: Not Just a Threat on Land By: Elizabeth Cherneff The idea of being suffocated by carbon dioxide seems like a distant and hypothetical climate nightmare- until you read chapter six in Mark Lynas’s ‘Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet.’ In one of Lynas’s final analyses of the effects of global climate [...]

What does history tell us? Looking back at warming trends By: Elizabeth Cherneff As we progress through Mark Lynas’s ‘Six Degrees,’ the climate predictions for the future appear more and more bleak. Between the heating up, cooling down, rainfall highs and extreme droughts, it can be difficult to keep all the changes straight, let alone [...]

Rain, Rain, Go Away? What the Northeast’s record-setting rainfall tells us about our climate’s future By: Elizabeth Cherneff The fourth chapter of Mark Lynas’s book ‘Six Degrees’ opens with a brief reference to the Egyptian city of Alexandria. In a four-degree world, Lynas writes, Alexandria’s below sea level position would leave it susceptible to unprecedented rising [...]

Three Degrees and Hurricanes: A Super Storm Surge? By: Elizabeth Cherneff Anyone who’s watched a television weather report knows that a swirling, pinwheel-shaped image is not a good omen. And in the third chapter of ‘Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet’, Mark Lynas paints an equally dark picture of what future hurricanes will look [...]

Blizzards and global warming: it’s snow joke By: Elizabeth Cherneff Sitting in my Washington D.C. apartment on my third consecutive snowed in day, I came across a blog post from Washington Post contributor Ezra Klein that addressed an interesting question: is global warming actually a concern when your city’s streets are buried underneath more than 20 [...]

From the mountains to the oceans, where is global warming taking place? By Elizabeth Cherneff When we think of the term ‘global warming’, images of sweltering summers and melting ice caps tend to come to mind. What struck me as most interesting in Mark Lynas’s book, ‘Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet’, was his [...]