Climate scientists tend to focus on warming levels, not rates. But peat soils contain from 400 billion to a trillion metric tons of carbon. Warming of 1.8 degrees F (1 degree C) per decade would release peat’s carbon into the atmosphere. GR


CONSEQUENCES
SCOTUS Poised to Handcuff the EPA
In the wake of reactionary rulings by the Supreme Court that seized a woman’s right to abortion after the Justices had unleashed potentially lethal freedoms to gun owners, one can only shudder at the prospect of the court’s upcoming decision on West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).