As queer, minority and other marginalized identities find themselves uniquely imperiled in today's political climate, the questions that the queer Chicano/a artists featured in Axis Mundo contemplated at the time questions having to do with identity, artistic protest and American culture are made newly relevant by recent history.
Then, consider the climate and the question that preoccupies many people: has global warming changed the climate forever, not just melting ice caps but also threatening birds on British moors?
Given that the CIA is a major sponsor of the recently released US National Academy of Sciences NASS) reports on geoengineering (which they have renamed "climate intervention"), the question arises as to the possible interest of the CIA in global climate control.
As some of the greatest thinkers on climate change are gathered in Warsaw, Poland this week for the UN's Global Conference on Climate Change, the question is how much of a role women will play in moving the discussion forward.
In a time of climate emergency, the question of environmental governance is not only critical, but also epistemic.
Abbott's joke at the ineffectualness of the carbon price to affect the climate raises the question: does he believe that his "direct action" sham will reduce the greenhouse effect or cool the weather?
For people who are serious about trying to restrict carbon emissions and slow the onset of climate change, the question is how to restore the environmental movement to the public realm.
In the current frustration over the neglect of interest in ratifying intergovernmental climate agreements, the question arises whether the incentive structure of burden sharing models is the appropriate tool to move the very many we need for climate action.
Here's where the new research partly merges with one of the most contentious matters in current climate policy — the question of how much of the fast-acting greenhouse gas methane we're emitting, and where it is coming from.
But the real role of trees in our climate is the question that we've addressed in our study.
