Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Climate Change

DAN DROLLETTE JR.

Introduction: Climate change—Where are we now?

The latest Bulletin magazine issue covers wide-ranging aspects of the climate crisis—from how to survive extreme wildfires to the changing landscape of climate journalism. Read with complimentary access in the Bulletin magazine.

MICHAEL MANN
Book excerpt—Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs

Do the dinosaurs, victims of a famous 66-million-year-old mass extinction event, have a message for us? Read with complimentary access in the Bulletinmagazine.

DAN DROLLETTE JR.
Interview: Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First

Extreme heat is an invisible threat that is easily overlooked. But what it does to living things is very real. Subscribe to read more.

DAN DROLLETTE JR.
Where climate journalism is now: Interview with Emily Atkin, the fire behind the Heatedclimate newsletter

Emily Atkin quit her full-time job and formed her own newsletter. She details the problems with current climate coverage, and gives her own prescription for making it better. Subscribe to read more.

DAN DROLLETTE JR.
Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winner and former Energy Secretary, on today’s battery research

In this interview with the Bulletin, Chu talks about why the solid-state battery is the holy grail of researchers—and why the full charge of a car battery only needs to be long enough to go about 200 miles: “You don’t really need anything more than that; the goal is simply to make the battery last longer than the human bladder.” ​​​​​Subscribe to read more.

JEREMY TWITCHELL
Laying the groundwork for long-duration energy storage

In a decarbonized energy future, the role of energy storage will expand; there is an impending need for long-duration energy storage technologies. But creating an environment where these nascent technologies can develop and thrive will require changes in how the grid is planned and built. Subscribe to read more.

BEVERLY LAW, RALPH BLOEMERS, NANCY COLLETON, AND MACKENZIE ALLEN
Redefining the wildfire problem and scaling solutions to meet the challenge​​​​​​

By redefining the wildfire problem as a home ignition problem, communities can survive even extreme fires and can safely reintroduce fire to the land. Subscribe to read more.

ANNE M. VAN VALKENGOED
Climate anxiety is not a mental health problem. But we should still treat it as one.​​​​​​

Scholars are rightfully concerned about medicalizing or pathologizing climate anxiety. However, there may be inadvertent consequences associated with nottreating climate anxiety as a mental health problem, too. Subscribe to read more.

ARZAN TARAPORE
Conditional restraint: Why the India-Pakistan Kargil War is not a case of nuclear deterrence​​​​​​

In the 1999 Kargil War, India defended its territory from a Pakistani incursion but chose not to expand the war with counter-attacks onto Pakistan soil. But in a future conflict India may be encouraged to take especially risky and escalatory wartime actions, posing a test for nuclear deterrence. Subscribe to read more.

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