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Trump’s Paris Accord Abandonment Is a Moral Disgrace

Trump’s Paris Accord Abandonment Is a Moral Disgrace

When the US leaves the Paris climate agreement at President Donald Trump’s command about a year from now, it will join Iran, Libya and Yemen as the...

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The $2 Trillion Home Insurance Nightmare Is Getting Even Worse

The $2 Trillion Home Insurance Nightmare Is Getting Even Worse

On top of the human tragedy they’re still inflicting, the Los Angeles wildfires are exposing a gap between what people thought their homes were...

16.01.2025 40

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How New York Can Hold Banks to Their Climate Pledges

How New York Can Hold Banks to Their Climate Pledges

With Donald Trump soon to enter the White House, you’re more likely to be eaten by a shark than to see meaningful climate action at the federal...

09.01.2025 10

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California Fires Expose a $1 Trillion Hole in US Home Insurance

California Fires Expose a $1 Trillion Hole in US Home Insurance

The wildfires terrorizing Los Angeles this week have been like something out of a movie: vast, fast-moving, unpredictable, merciless. Their scope and...

09.01.2025 20

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This Red Midwestern State Is a Global Paragon of Clean Power

If you’re looking for a paragon of the renewable-energy transition, you won’t find it in most of Europe or anywhere in China or even in...

21.12.2024 40

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Carbon-Capture Promises Require an Unrealistic Land Grab

Because it’s apparently too hard to cut the carbon emissions heating up the planet, many countries plan to sweep much of their pollution under the...

17.12.2024 7

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How Hot Does It Need to Get to Spur Climate Action?

This has been the hottest year in recorded human history. Its unprecedented temperatures stoked devastating wildfires, floods, cyclones, droughts...

12.12.2024 20

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ESG Is in Its Flop Era

As a concept, environmentally responsible investing is in its flop era. Right-wing backlash has turned “ESG” into a four-letter word in...

10.12.2024 10

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The UN Is Failing to Save the World. Here’s What Might.

Jaw-jaw may be better than war-war, but when it comes to climate change, the world’s jaw is apparently wired shut these days. If we hope to avoid...

05.12.2024 10

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Trump 2.0 Is Bad for the Climate But Not Hopeless

In poll after poll, Americans say they care about climate change. But then again, they also say they care about democracy, women’s rights and...

08.11.2024 4

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New York’s Freak ‘Flash Drought’ Will Become Less Freakish

Maybe it never rains in Southern California, but for about a month this fall it also never rained in New York City, which this week asked citizens...

05.11.2024 1

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America’s Green Party Is a Fraud

If you live in any of nearly 100 countries around the world, worry about climate change and want your government to do something to help, then it...

04.11.2024 2

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Helene and Milton Damage Is Just the Start of the Climate Tab

When we think about the economic damage of climate change, most of us probably think about the physical destruction wrought by mammoth disasters...

28.10.2024 3

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Florida Is Now Schrödinger’s Housing Market

If you enjoy having migraine headaches, you might want to spend some time thinking about the future of Florida’s housing market in an era of...

17.10.2024 2

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Milton and Helene Prove There’s No ‘Normal’ Hurricane Season

It may be hard to believe, but about a month ago, people were calling this year’s hurricane season a bust. Now we’re facing a second devastating...

10.10.2024 5

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America’s Flood Insurance System Requires Urgent Fixes

There’s an old saying that a recession is when you lose your job and a depression is when I lose mine. A similar logic applies to floods....

08.10.2024 1

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Hurricane Helene Reminds Us There Are No Climate Havens

If you were asked to draw the front lines of climate change on a map of the US, you’d probably include all the coasts, along with Arizona,...

30.09.2024 1

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Hurricane Helene Has a Blunt Message for Climate Week

What more fitting way to wrap up Climate Week than with a monster natural disaster that was almost certainly made stronger and more destructive by...

27.09.2024 2

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Wildfire Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Then Your Wallet

Americans are increasingly familiar with the many joys of wildfire smoke: stinging eyes, raspy throats, aggravated health conditions,...

27.09.2024 2

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Harris’ Green Jobs Plan Isn't Enough for Voters

“Campaign in poetry, govern in prose,” former New York Governor Mario Cuomo once famously advised politicians. For some reason, this rule...

20.09.2024 2

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Once-in-a-Lifetime Floods Are Becoming Routine

Can a flood be called a thousand-year flood if it happens every five years? That’s a question worth asking this week in the southern US, central...

18.09.2024 2

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More Debt Is No Climate Solution for Poor Nations

Imagine you borrow $1 million from me, and then I burn down your house and steal your car so you can’t drive to work anymore. But then I offer you...

12.09.2024 2

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Harris Is From Earth, Trump From Alpha Centauri on Climate

If I had to grade the debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump from a climate perspective, I would give it a...

11.09.2024 2

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Biden Giving Tax Credits for Wood Pellets Is a Terrible Idea

When our early ancestors discovered the many benefits of chucking logs in a fire, the concept of “clean energy” would likely have been much harder...

09.09.2024 4

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Texas Is the New Arizona, and Not in a Good Way

Humans can survive whole days without food, shelter or internet, but they can’t last long without water. Which is why it’s so weird that...

04.09.2024 1

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Companies’ Addiction to Junk Carbon Offsets Is Killing the Planet

Before “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” was a Taylor Swift song, it was a punch line to a Paula Poundstone joke from the 1980s about how,...

26.08.2024 1

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If You Didn’t Get an Extreme-Weather Alert, You’re Alone

With the planet heating up and nature growing more deadly and destructive, new tools to help people gauge their climate risks are landing faster...

22.08.2024 20

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Why Doesn’t Harris Talk About Climate Change?

Politicians usually pay attention to issues that two-thirds of Americans agree on because politicians want votes, and paying attention to popular...

12.08.2024 1

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Why Are Americans So Willing to Move to Disaster Zones?

Four years ago, the rise of remote work created a new version of the American dream: No longer forced to live close to the office, millions of...

08.08.2024 2

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A $1 Trillion Time Bomb Is Ticking in the Housing Market

Cassandras seldom get opportunities to be right about two disasters. Even the original Cassandra scored no notable victories after predicting the...

02.08.2024 10

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Wildfires Are Getting Weirder. Case in Point: Firenados.

“Weird” is the word of the hour in US politics. But it also does a good job of describing how natural disasters are behaving as the planet heats...

31.07.2024 1

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Global Heating Is No Longer a Tomorrow Problem. It’s Today’s.

For decades, global warming was widely seen as a tomorrow problem, something for our hapless grandchildren to worry about. But with heat records...

25.07.2024 2

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The Market’s Next Black Swan Is Climate Change

Fighting climate change is difficult partly because humans are weird. It’s difficult to get them to care about their own future well-being much...

19.07.2024 1

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Musk Is Supporting a MAGA Ticket That Will Just Hurt Tesla

Imagine you’re one of the world’s wealthiest people and the chief executive officer of one of the world’s biggest electric-car makers. It’s...

18.07.2024 2

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