The world is increasingly close to the atmospheric limit for carbon dioxide. Failure to drastically and urgently reduce CO2 emissions will very soon make it impossible to avoid an average warming of the Earth at the 2ºC threshold which is considered dangerous to life. Moreover, we have already spent half of a hypothetical budget of [...]

The burning of fossil fuels such as coal may be said to cause global warming that will ultimately destroy this planet. What is less talked about is that it translates to something more immediate and has already been happening, even before the climate change debates ever began. Acid rain is when all the fossil fuel [...]