Resources

How Climate Change’s Effect on Agriculture can Lead to War

February 17, 2017

by Ryan Bort | On February 12, the temperature in Magnum, Oklahoma, reached 100 degrees. It was a state record for the month of February, besting a mark that was set in 1918. The average February high in Magnum is 56.

World Government Summit

February 12, 2017

This February 2017, Thomas Homer-Dixon spoke at the World Government Summit on “Climate Change and Food Supply.”

Canada Must not Give Up the Fight on Climate Change

January 2, 2017

Those of us concerned about climate change generally inhabit an old-fashioned reality-based world. Scientific research and evidence drive our concern. Although we wish the climate problem would vanish, that motivation doesn’t override what science tells us.

How Alberta could champion a new energy source

August 8, 2016

Albertans may well wonder if a plague of locusts will come next. From the 2013 floods, to the oil price collapse and the resulting fiscal crisis, to the Fort McMurray fires, the province has taken some heavy blows.

Start the Leap revolution without me

April 22, 2016

The Leap Manifesto is a Rorschach ink-blot test of one’s political and economic ideology.

Don’t Peddle Climate Fantasies

December 14, 2015

The French have pulled a rabbit out of the climate hat in Paris. It’s a rather incomplete rabbit, because it’s missing bits and pieces – an ear here, a foot there. But it has a heartbeat, and it’s recognizable as a rabbit all the same.

The False Promise of Climate Adaptation

December 7, 2015

Climate skeptics may not be out for the count, but they’re definitely on the ropes. As Earth’s atmosphere warms and severe droughts, storms, and wildfires sweep the planet, those arguing that climate change isn’t a grave danger have had to bob and weave to stay on their feet.

Scientists Call for an Oil Sands Moratorium

June 10, 2015
Wendy Palen, Thomas Homer-Dixon, et al.

Consensus statement says the science is clear: there can be no more oils sands development if we are to solve the global climate crisis.

Consider the Global Impacts of Oil Pipelines

August 6, 2014
Wendy J. Palen, Thomas D. Sisk, Maureen E. Ryan, Joseph L. Árvai, Mark Jaccard, Anne K. Salomon, Thomas Homer-Dixon and Ken P. Lertzman

Wendy Palen, Thomas Homer-Dixon, et al. | As scientists spanning diverse disciplines, we urge North American leaders to take a step back: no new oil-sands projects should move forward unless developments are consistent with national and international commitments to reducing carbon pollution.

Climate Uncertainty Shouldn’t Mean Inaction

October 7, 2013
Thomas Homer-Dixon and Andrew Weaver

with Andrew Weaver | Folks who question the reality or seriousness of climate change are making a lot of noise about how the planet’s warming has slowed down or even stopped.