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Editor’s Note:This narrative by Nathaniel Rich is a work of history, addressing the 10-year period from 1979 to 1989: the decisive decade when humankind first came to a broad understanding of the causes and dangers of climate change. Complementing the text is a series of aerial photographs and videos, all shot over the past year by George Steinmetz. With support from the Pulitzer Center, this two-part article is based on 18 months of reporting and well over a hundred interviews. It tracks the efforts of a small group of American scientists, activists and politicians to raise the alarm and stave off catastrophe. It will come as a revelation to many readers — an agonizing revelation — to understand how thoroughly they grasped the problem and how close they came to solving it. Jake Silverstein | Editor’s Note:This narrative by Nathaniel Rich is a work of history, addressing the 10-year period from 1979 to 1989: the decisive decade when humankind first came to a broad understanding of the causes and dangers of climate change. Complementing the text is a series of aerial photographs and videos, all shot over the past year by George Steinmetz. With support from the Pulitzer Center, this two-part article is based on 18 months of reporting and well over a hundred interviews. It tracks the efforts of a small group of American scientists, activists and politicians to raise the alarm and stave off catastrophe. It will come as a revelation to many readers — an agonizing revelation — to understand how thoroughly they grasped the problem and how close they came to solving it. Jake Silverstein | ||
===== 2018 takes the podium as one of the hottest years on record. Let’s look deeper. ===== | |||
[https://mashable.com/article/2018-forth-warmest-year-on-record-climate-change/?fbclid=IwAR37Z9P77Pu6RWBgYouu9EjGKEOzfI4fMXKDWO6Mk5-4gpnVqZiJdjiBrc4# Mashable- Warming Overview 12/20/2018] | [https://mashable.com/article/2018-forth-warmest-year-on-record-climate-change/?fbclid=IwAR37Z9P77Pu6RWBgYouu9EjGKEOzfI4fMXKDWO6Mk5-4gpnVqZiJdjiBrc4# Mashable- Warming Overview 12/20/2018] | ||
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Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
NY MAG article Climate Change efforts 1979-1989
Editor’s Note:This narrative by Nathaniel Rich is a work of history, addressing the 10-year period from 1979 to 1989: the decisive decade when humankind first came to a broad understanding of the causes and dangers of climate change. Complementing the text is a series of aerial photographs and videos, all shot over the past year by George Steinmetz. With support from the Pulitzer Center, this two-part article is based on 18 months of reporting and well over a hundred interviews. It tracks the efforts of a small group of American scientists, activists and politicians to raise the alarm and stave off catastrophe. It will come as a revelation to many readers — an agonizing revelation — to understand how thoroughly they grasped the problem and how close they came to solving it. Jake Silverstein
2018 takes the podium as one of the hottest years on record. Let’s look deeper.
Mashable- Warming Overview 12/20/2018
