one week here in the summer and you'll change your mind, I'm sure. the heat now is terrible, walking on the street in the sun feels like you're going to pass out

This isn’t to disparage this sub, but the climate news industry as a whole. It feels like most articles focus on how we’re screwed or how we should’ve acted 20 years ago to avoid catastrophe. And they’re right, but it feels so fucking overwhelming after reading it over and over. It’s important to know how badly we’re screwed but it feels like too much sometimes.

I really appreciate the posts that offer a bit of hope—showcasing the incredible work of the world’s smartest minds, the new laws being passed, and the breakthroughs in science and business that give us a bit of a chance. Those stories remind me that progress is being made.

For those in the same boat as me, I recommend reading a few positive articles every day. Here are a couple of good sites I’ve found: Environment America and The Daily Climate tend to have a more balanced and optimistic tone. They also gather news from multiple sources. Personally though, I’m also looking for more stories about business and scientific breakthroughs.

I’ve also recently started an email newsletter called Extant, with informative, positive articles I’ve read and liked in the past few days. I send news in four categories: science, business, politics, and activism. If you’re also tired of the doomscrolling, feel free to join here: Extant. 2 emails per week, just articles. No ads, nothing.

(edit) I fixed the link above, it was glitching out. In case you all were signing up before.

Finally, some legislation that has some teeth.

I am a beginner learning to download and interpret data derived from climate models.I downloaded my required data of EC-Earth3 from Earth System Grid Federation's website in netcdf format and converted them into .csv format as in the following image.But I am clueless about what these data mean and what each column means.Can someone help me with interpreting these data so I can proceed for further analysis with these data.

I want to read technical papers on climate change, no watered down books or articles. I'm pursuing a degree in engineering and one in math, so assume i have the requisite math background/maturity to read scientific papers and learn whatever science i need to in order to understand them completely.

I have looked at the reading list in the subreddit, but I wanted a reliable place, a journal/conference preferably, to get the latest research on cc.

I'll look at ipcc references as well, in addition to this if you have some new climate change related book (again, textbooks only) then please do recommend. Thanks.

Does anyone have data to refute this stuff? Or good papers and articles to share?

He specifically said he doesn’t understand why 1.5 C temperature rise is a bad thing.

Humans have changed the surface of the planet drastically in the last hundred years. And I was wondering how land reclamation affects certain ecosystems, wether it be aquatic or land based. Thank you!

Back then it seemed like the science was trusted and everyone agreed. If everyone hadn't agreed, would the ozone layer be gone now and if so how much worse would our environment be?

Hi, I'm a data scientist fresh out of college, but I feel empty applying my skills in a job I don't even like. Does anyone have ideas on how I can apply data science to generate solutions to help combat the effect of climate change? I understand that one of the major contributors to the problem is the food industry.

I also know that agriculture and land use contribute approximately 34% of global greenhouse gas emissions and that there are many recommended actions such as moving from industrial monocultures to decentralized polycultures, adopting regenerative agriculture practices, reducing fertilizer use and changing agricultural techniques, protecting ecosystems and collaborating with indigenous communities to preserve their lands, reducing food waste and changing diets to less polluting options (e.g., reducing meat consumption).

Please I need someone to comment if you know of initiatives that I can get involved in or ideas that can generate efficient solutions. I am very sad but motivated

I'm a home owner in a depressed mid-sized town North Louisiana and get some gnarly winter depression. My first pick for relocation would be Miami, but Miami is so close to sea level that by the time I'd be ready to move again I might only be able to sell to Aquaman. Is Orlando a reasonable next option? I don't expect to live more than another 50 years tops, so if Orlando sinks after that time, I'll already be dead.

I consider myself rational and science/data-oriented, so I have a difficult time understanding why so many people refuse to acknowledge even the possibility of anthropogenic climate change. I know why many businesses don't want to—looking at you, Oil and Gas. But it seems so obstinate. Why couldn't human beings be impacting the global climate? Why is that such a difficult situation to understand? Is it that some humans see our species as infallible? We couldn't possibly be doing this? We hate change and it would mean giving up some or all of the things we love to do like drive gas-powered cars? I know the rules say no politics, but how did this become a "liberal" thing? Politicizing it benefits no one long-term.

(Sorry if this is a sore subject and if it's been covered here already, ad nauseam.)