Here’s today’s stream of things read and considered:
- EXISTENTIAL DREAD, DISTILLED:
We read the 4000-page IPCC climate report so you don’t have to - Mark Belan’s visualization of terrestrial biomass
- Animated map of microplastics in the ocean Joshua Stevens, data from 2017-2018
- New SARS-CoV-2 variants have changed the pandemic. What will the virus do next? (Science, 19 August 2021)
- Scientists race to define Omicron threat, worried about ‘surge upon a surge (Harvard Gazette, 10 December 2021)
- If You Think Covid is Over, Think Again (Umair Haque on Why It’s Going to Be Another Long, Bleak Covid Winter)
- Sorry, I’m Not Buying The “Mild” Omicron Argument (Jessica Wildfire)
- How Big Oil Rigs the System to Keep Winning (Naomi Oreskes and Jeff Nesbit)
- A Perfect Storm: The Chocolate, Coffee, and Climate Crises (Randall Mayes)
- Syukuro Manabe, The Man Who Predicted Climate Change (Stephen Witt, New Yorker)
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