Articles by Christopher Mims
Christopher Mims's dystopian non-fiction is sought after by an ever-growing roster of publications.
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Invasive pythons have eaten literally everything in Everglades
In the Everglades, recent counts reveal that 88 percent of bobcats, 99 percent of raccoons and opossums, and effectively 100 percent of rabbits and foxes have simply disappeared from the park.
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Our waste heat warms the atmosphere, too — and it’s getting worse
Waste heat could directly warm industrialized parts of the world by between 0.4 °C and 0.9 °C by 2100.
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The heat trapped by global warming equals 1 million Hiroshima bombs a day
"The radiative forcing of the CO2 we have already put in the atmosphere in the last century is … the equivalent in energy terms to almost half a billion Hiroshima bombs each year."
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Renewables nearly competitive with fossil fuels, even without subsidies
In 2010, investors and governments poured $187 billion into renewables and just $157 billion into natural gas, oil and coal.
