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What’s Next?

January/February 2016

It’s too late to stop climate change from happening. But we can begin to limit the damage and slow it down.

Letter from the editor

Don’t Panic! It’s Not Too Late.

Features

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Stop Emissions!
A climate scientist argues that it should no longer be acceptable to dump carbon dioxide in the sky.
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Witnessing Climate Change Everywhere
On an Instagram account called everydayclimatechange, the photographer James Whitlow Delano curates pictures that document causes and effects of global warming and responses to it.
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The Evidence
Oceans are rising, Antarctica is losing its ice sheets, and the lower atmosphere is heating up. Satellite data (bottom) shows the atmosphere is warming at its lowest layer (the troposphere), while the stratosphere, which begins around 10 kilometers above the ground, is cooling. Scientists say this is consistent with the greenhouse effect.
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This Climate Policy Could Save the Planet
Here’s a smart way for us to limit carbon emissions and keep global warming below 2 °C.
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The Energy Startup Conundrum
An inventor of a storage technology tries to outlast a brutal stretch for new energy companies.
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A Change of Mind
Diana Bianchi championed tests that find Down syndrome early in pregnancy. Now can she find a way to treat it?
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Can This Man Make AI More Human?
One cognitive scientist thinks the leading approach to machine learning can be improved by ideas gleaned from studying children.

Also in this issue
- The Fast Rise of Ad Blockers
  Categorized in 17041
- Hot and Violent
  Researchers have begun to understand the economic and social damage caused by climate change.
  Categorized in Climate change
- The End of Internet Advertising as We’ve Known It
  Millions of people are refusing to let intrusive, distracting, or irrelevant ads load on our devices. Consumers should seize the opportunity to demand a more mutually beneficial relationship with online advertisers.
  Categorized in 17032
- Are Young Athletes Risking Brain Damage?
  Sports leagues should do more to protect children from the long-term problems that stem from hits to the head.
  Categorized in 17035
- The Ideal Fuel
  A nanomaterials chemist has figured out a good way to mimic leaves and turn water and carbon dioxide into things we need.
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- A Conservative Proposition for Global Warming
  In 1990, a Brazilian politician proposed what he presumed would be a simple way to kick our fossil-fuel habit.
  Categorized in 17032

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