A running list of environment-related writing I’ve found valuable:

• Zadie Smith, Elegy for a Country’s Seasons
• Ray Pierrehumbert, Climate Science Is Settled Enough
• Chris Mooney, No, the sun isn’t driving global warming
• Ari Jokimäki, Anti-[Anthropogenic Global Warming] papers debunked [Ed.:  Many of the links to pdfs of articles are broken but the citations are good.]
• Matthew Newman, An Empirical Benchmark for Decadal Forecasts of Global Surface Temperature Anomalies
• Barton Paul Levenson, Are the [Global Climate] Models Correct?
• Eli Rabett, Need to Know
• Eli Rabett, More from Andy Lacis [On what we know about global warming and why we know it]
• Michael Tobis, Some thoughts on Climate Modeling
• G. A. Meehl, et al., Decadal Climate Prediction:  An Update from the Trenches
• Thomas Birner, Sean Davis, and Dian Seidel, The changing width of Earth’s tropical belt
• Jennifer Francis, A melting Arctic and weird weather:  the plot thickens
• MIT Climate Scientist Kerry Emanuel’s response to Roger Pielke Jr.’s article “Disasters Cost More Than Ever — But Not Because of Climate Change”
• Naomi Oreskes, Wishful Thinking About Natural Gas: Why Fossil Fuels Can’t Solve the Problems Created by Fossil Fuels
• Michael Tobis, I’m Afraid This Changes Nothing [Criticism of Naomi Klein’s book, This Changes Everything:  Capitalism vs The Climate]
• Alyssa Battistoni, Alive in the Sunshine
• MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2015 Energy & Climate Outlook
• Ray Pierrehumbert, Keystone XL:  Game Over?
• Emily Atkin, Industry Groups Are Freaking Out About Obama’s New Smog Pollution Rule
• Bill Chameides, U.S. Acid Rain Regulations: Did They Work?
• Ari Phillips, The Dangerous Hole In The Ozone Layer Is Healing, And It’s Because Of A Global Agreement
• Kerry Emanuel, Earth Under Stress: Thinking differently about climate research
• Roy Scranton (NYT), Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene
• Elizabeth Farnsworth, Is “New Conservation” Still Conservation?
• Chris Smaje, Dark Thoughts on Ecomodernism
• Jonathan Foley, The other inconvenient truth [Agriculture for the 21st century.  Current agricultural methods and production aren’t going to cut it.]
• Wil Hylton, Broken Heartland: The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains
• Natasha Geiling, California’s Drought Could Upend America’s Entire Food System
• Eli Rabett, The [West Antarctic Ice Sheet] and Resilience
• John Richardson, When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job: Among many climate scientists, gloom has set in. Things are worse than we think, but they can’t really talk about it.
• Dougald Hine, What do you do, after you stop pretending?
• Paul Kingsnorth, Dark Ecology

Last edited October 1, 2020