Ask a sommelier to describe the allure of a favorite glass of vino and you might hear about notes of various fruits, woods, spices, or even a whisper of petrichor (yup, that’s one of our faves, too).

Cliff Ross notes that in stories and studies on human-caused climate change, most of the emphasis is on a rapidly warming world that is expected to only get hotter and hotter. That's fair enough, he ...