Global Warming
Global warming refers specifically to the long-term rise in Earth's average temperature, driven principally in the modern era by the accumulation of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. It is an essential part of the larger climate-change story, but the consequences of that warming extend far beyond temperature alone.
Seeing the larger connections
Whole Life Times will use this page to connect planetary heating with warming oceans, melting ice, sea-level rise, changing rainfall, extreme heat, ecological disruption and the feedback processes that can amplify change. It will also provide a place to distinguish carefully between global warming itself and the broader climatic and Earth-system transformations to which it contributes.
As this part of the Whole Life Times website develops, the page will connect relevant magazine articles, historical archive material, WLT Dialogues, books, research and related subjects. In that way it can grow from an introductory pathway into a richer and increasingly interconnected field of knowledge.
What will gather here
WLT Articles
Current and recent Whole Life Times articles directly concerned with global warming and its wider connections.
From the Archive
Earlier WLT articles will be added as the historical print collection is scanned, recovered and classified.
WLT Dialogues
Relevant conversations with researchers, practitioners, thinkers and change-makers will progressively be connected here.
A subject page designed to grow
Related Climate & Energy subjects
Climate belongs to a larger living system
Continue into the broader Climate & Energy gateway, explore related environmental and sustainable-living material, or browse the growing Whole Life Times archive.
Climate & EnergyEnvironment & EcologySustainable LivingWLT Archive