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Fred Pearce

What Fred Pearce thinks about climate change

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English environment and science writer; a contributing writer for Yale Environment 360 and author of When the Rivers Run Dry (2006), The Land Grabbers (2012) and The New Wild (2015).

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5 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Fred Pearce has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingIndia industrializing with solar instead of coal could go a long way toward saving the planet.

    solar

    Their wordsClosing that gap by burning coal would be ruinous for the world’s climate. Achieving it with solar power could go a long way toward saving the planet.

    ↗A First Among Major Nations, India Is Industrializing With Solare360.yale.edu

  2. 6 weeks earlier

  3. Our readingSea levels are much higher than flood-risk forecasts assumed.

    Their wordsSea levels are much higher than we thought. Real-world oceans are making a mockery of flood-risk forecasts based on crude global modeling.

    ↗A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Is Coming into Viewe360.yale.edu 1st of 2 in this piece

  5. Our readingCoastal land almost everywhere is sinking faster than the seas are rising.

    Their wordsAnd to make matters worse, coastal lands almost everywhere are subsiding faster than anyone realized — often many times faster than the seas are rising.

    ↗A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Is Coming into Viewe360.yale.edu 2nd of 2 in this piece

  6. 5 months earlier

  7. Our readingBrazil’s Tropical Forest Forever Facility could be the last and best chance to save tropical forests.

    Their wordsIt could be the last and best chance to save the world’s tropical forests.

    ↗Carbon Offsets Are Failing. Can a New Plan Save the Rainforests?e360.yale.edu 1st of 2 in this piece

  9. Our readingCarbon-offset schemes for protecting forests are floundering.

    Their wordsAnd market-based systems of forest protection and restoration based on trading in carbon offsets are floundering.

    ↗Carbon Offsets Are Failing. Can a New Plan Save the Rainforests?e360.yale.edu 2nd of 2 in this piece