The evidence
The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 per cent probability) to be the result of…
Climate
Essays and ideas exploring climate, responsibility, nature, uncertainty, and how we respond to environmental change.
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Making the world whole again
“Small steps will no longer do. The biggest steps need to be taken by those with the biggest boots.” – Sauli Niinisto, President of Finland A…
Ethical dilemmas
Dilemma: I like to think that I care for the environment and for the future of the planet, and I’m concerned by the potential effects of…
Wild thinking
“Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.” – George Perkins Marsh Our classes were…
6 thinkers
What does climate change mean to humans? Here are six thinkers’ views on the climate. The Physicist Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018 “One can see from…
Changing the Earth’s atmosphere
Tim Dean: Most people are probably familiar with just one atmosphere: our own. How does Earth’s atmosphere compare to the other planets that we know about?…
When degree is shaked
When the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander, What plagues and what portents, what mutiny, What raging of the sea, shaking of earth, Commotion in…
Stories of change
Image: Blind monks examining an elephant, Hanabusa Itchō, 1652–1724. Here we present the winners of New Philosopher Writers’ Award XXVI: Change. Once more, we received a record…
Heraclitus on talk radio
Image: Democritus and Heraclitus, Richard Gaywood, ca. 1630-1680, The Met Here we present the winners of New Philosopher Writers’ Award XXVI: Change. Once more, we received…
A change in temperature
Svante August Arrhenius was a Swedish scientist who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903. Arrhenius was the first to use basic principles of physical…
Around the web
A climate of mind Anyone who cares about climate change has to be tired of the vitriolic tirades that masquerade as public debate over that issue.…
Our library
Food for thought from the New Philosopher library. We discover books that can change the way you view the world. Field Notes from a Catastrophe Elizabeth…
X-risks and Existentialism
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” - Isaac Asimov In Fear and Trembling, Søren Kierkegaard’s…
13 questions: Narda Lepes
Narda Lepes is an Argentinian TV producer, chef, and author. What is your demon? Trying to solve problems that are too big for me. But I…
