- How optimistic are you about the future of the planet in relation to climate change? Poll https://en.referendum.social/poll/449 2 comments environment
- How optimistic are you about the future of the planet in relation to climate change? https://en.referendum.social/poll/449 96 comments climate
- The UN's Devastating Climate Change Report Was Too Optimistic https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43e8yp/the-uns-devastating-climate-change-report-was-too-optimistic 31 comments science
- The UN's Devastating Climate Change Report Was Too Optimistic https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43e8yp/the-uns-devastating-climate-change-report-was-too-optimistic 18 comments politics
- A top energy strategist is optimistic about climate change. And he has the data to back that up https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-rystad-energy-peak-oil-7927a9ac8172b0f278d0db35d5f19f0c 174 comments futurology
- Here’s what optimistic liberals get wrong about Trump and climate change http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/1/4/14116592/trump-climate-change-optimism-meh 3 comments politics
- Fossil fuel companies at CERAWeek are optimistic in the climate change era https://www.vox.com/climate/24115045/ceraweek-fossil-fuel-oil-gas-energy-climate-change-renewable-exxon-aramco 5 comments climate
- Research has found people tended to be more optimistic about people's ability to work together to address climate change and have better impressions of people who participated in marches after the March for Science and the People's Climate March in 2017. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/ps-mfc052319.php 4 comments science
- There will be a massive increase in drought-induced migration in the coming years—200% more based on the optimistic climate projections and as high as 500% more if world leaders fail to cooperate on climate change mitigation measures. https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/droughts-to-increase-human-migration-at-least-200/ 54 comments environment
- A new study casts doubt over claims that people are ‘optimistically biased’ about the future, a tendency that is thought to contribute to financial crises, people’s failure to look after their health, or inaction over climate change. https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/new-research-casts-doubt-on-claims-that-people-have-rose-tinted-glasses/ 2 comments science
- Top Scientists Just Ruled Out Best-Case Global Warming Scenarios | A major new study of the relationship between carbon dioxide and global warming lowers the odds on worst-case climate change scenarios, while also ruling out the most optimistic estimates https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/top-scientists-just-ruled-out-best-case-global-warming-scenarios 19 comments worldnews
- Climate change in deep oceans could be seven times faster by middle of century, report says | Even under a highly optimistic scenario where emissions fell sharply from now, the ocean’s mesopelagic layer – from 200m to 1km down – climate velocity would change from about 6km per decade to 50km by 2050 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/26/climate-change-in-deep-oceans-could-be-seven-times-faster-by-middle-of-century-report-says 3 comments worldnews
- UK butterflies could suffer ‘widespread extinction’ by 2050, study warns. Even in a very optimistic scenario, where habitat is improved, the likelihood of these butterflies surviving climate change drops to zero by 2100, if emissions stay very high. http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2015/08/uk-butterflies-could-suffer-extinction-by-2050 53 comments science