Introducing EarthEnergyImbalance.com

A short explainer on why Earth is gaining heat faster than expected

Oct 6 • Paul Gambill

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September 2026

What Does Plan B Mean to Me?

An intro to Earth systems stabilization

Sep 29 • Paul Gambill

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About that UNEP overshoot report...

Three Substackers covered the UNEP overshoot report better than I could have. Here are their takes, plus the response options the report never mentions.

Sep 20 • Paul Gambill

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Sea Level Rise Is Locked In. Now What? — Charlotte Love, Coastal Futures Resilience Initiative

Every climate scenario, including the ones where emissions fall fast, commits the world to roughly 20 centimeters of sea level rise by 2050. What then…

Sep 17 • Paul Gambill

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Where to Find Stabilization Events at NY Climate Week

Ben put together a list of the stabilization-related events happening in New York this month. Here are the ones I’m going to.

Sep 10 • Paul Gambill

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I’m changing the name to The Overshoot Era

Why the old name had to go, and what the new one says about where we actually are: careening past 1.5°C and working out what we do next.

Sep 2 • Paul Gambill

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August 2026

Stabilizing Interventions Are a Reference Class

What a database of 16,000 megaprojects teaches about delivering climate interventions on time, on budget, and with the benefits promised

Aug 25

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Can We Save the Doomsday Glacier? — Marianne Hagen, Seabed Curtain Project

An underwater curtain 150 meters tall and 80 kilometers wide, anchored to the Antarctic seabed, may be the most direct thing anyone can do about sea…

Aug 6 • Paul Gambill

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July 2026

What We Mean by Stabilization

We proposed a name for an emerging climate field. Some in the field pushed back. Here are the strongest objections to the term, and where we landed.

Jul 29 • Paul Gambill

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Observations From the Climate Stabilization Field

What we learned from three months and 29 interviews inside the climate stabilization field, and what we're building next.

Jul 22 • Paul Gambill

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Why I Support Stabilization Research

A friendly reply to Ted Nordhaus on solar geoengineering

Jul 15 • Paul Gambill

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June 2026

Stabilization Needs a State That Works

Every plan to cool the planet assumes capable governments and enough cooperation to act together. Both are breaking down, and what we need is capable…

Jun 25 • Paul Gambill

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