“This is an unnecessary leap backwards,” says Rob Jackson on plans on deregulation of the extraction of oil and natural gas that would lead to more methane emissions.

"No matter the circumstances, moving is hard...One major challenge with retreat is that we’re so focused on getting people out of harm’s way, we miss the chance to help them move to opportunity,”  says Miyuki Hino on managed retreat from areas at risk of flooding. 

“We know there are thresholds we don’t want to cross,” says Chris Field. “But we don’t know precisely where they are.”

Sally Benson and Adam Brandt propose 'macro-energy systems,' a new academic discipline of the science of the energy transition, in a recent paper.

Rob Jackson and César Terrer write about their recently published study showing that plant growth could ameliorate fossil-fuel emissions if forests are protected.

Rob Jackson's recent study is referenced on the ability of plants to absorb the rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide in the future.

“In the past, bad weather in one area has been compensated by perhaps better weather in another, but some of our research has shown that as we move toward 2 degrees Celsius of warming, the probability of major cereal producers facing synchronous shocks in the same season goes way up,” says Roz Naylor.

Soil, writes Rob Jackson, “is a no-risk climate solution with big co-benefits. Fostering soil health protects food security and builds resilience to droughts, floods, and urbanization.”

"We ought to recognize that we have profound limits on the amount of land available and we have to be careful about how we utilize it,” Chris Field says about a new United Nations scientific report.

“These numbers are big, and that’s something to be excited about,” says Katharine Mach on the estimated amount of trees that could be planted on Earth.

"The body of evidence, developed by the global scientific community and assessed by IPCC, points to the potential for strong synergies between climate responses and other goals societies have, including food security and biodiversity preservation," says Katharine Mach.

“I do think eliminating deforestation is more important than planting new forest,” Rob Jackson says.

Research by Noah Diffenbaugh and Marshall Burke is cited in the context of how warming trends have exacerbated global wealth inequality.

“It’s a loss for USDA,” said Earth system science professor David Lobell on the leaving of influential USDA scientist Lewis Ziska.

The Carr Fire, along with California's 2018 Camp Fire, “ended any delusion that humans could keep Mother Nature in check,” according to an Op-ed by Jeffrey Ball, scholar-in-residence at Stanford’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance and a lecturer at Stanford Law School.

According to Katharine Mach, “carbon stored in the biosphere is at risk if we don’t simultaneously get energy, industry, and transport emissions in check.”