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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 other...

08.11.2024 10

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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 to...

05.11.2024 4

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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 5

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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 like...

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 9

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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. Hurricane...

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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 4

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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, speed-learning...

27.09.2024 8

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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 5

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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 5

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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 a...

12.09.2024 10

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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 C,...

11.09.2024 8

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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 6

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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 American...

04.09.2024 5

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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 6

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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 than...

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 8

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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 people...

08.08.2024 8

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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 fall...

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 4

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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 9

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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 less...

19.07.2024 8

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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 an...

18.07.2024 4

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Heat Waves Don’t Have to Be So Deadly

The early days of Covid-19 were a nightmare of packed hospitals and the constant wail of ambulances, the kind of apocalyptic scenes nobody wants to...

17.07.2024 4

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Hurricane Beryl Makes a Mockery of Texas Climate Deniers

Pop quiz time: Which US state is the most vulnerable to climate-fueled weather disasters and soaring home-insurance costs but is also growing rapidly...

09.07.2024 30

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The Supreme Court Is Too Incompetent to Keep Our Water Clean

When the US Supreme Court last week trashed decades of legal precedent to declare itself the final arbiter of all regulatory questions, many people...

03.07.2024 5

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New Jersey Transit Is Failing the Climate Change Challenge

Climate change is a kind of global stress test, exposing flaws in the underpinnings of human civilization and forcing us to fix them before they fail....

26.06.2024 10

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More Debt Is Better Than More Billion-Dollar Climate Disasters

There’s good debt and there’s bad debt. Good debt is a $465 million government loan for your fledgling electric-car company that helps it become...

24.06.2024 10

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Heat Waves Are Deadlier Than Hurricanes. Make Them ‘Disasters.’

Unlike other natural disasters, extreme heat doesn’t topple buildings, flood streets or turn road signs into missiles. It doesn’t provide a...

18.06.2024 3

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Billion-Dollar Thunderstorms in Florida? Thanks, Climate Change

When you hear the phrase “billion-dollar disaster,” you probably think of something epic and nightmarish, like a Category 5 hurricane or a mammoth...

14.06.2024 40

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Carbon Pricing Is Coming to America, Like It or Not

The late economist Milton Friedman, the patron saint of conservative capitalism, didn’t have much use for government involvement in business. But he...

13.06.2024 9

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It's Far Cheaper to Help Migrants Before They Leave Home

Gardi Sugdub is a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast that is jammed from end to end with housing for about 1,300 members of the indigenous...

10.06.2024 20

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Good Riddance to El Niño, But La Niña Won’t Be Much Relief

The record-smashing global heat of the past year has been driven partly by an El Niño weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean. The good news is that El...

04.06.2024 10

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Phoenix Is Facing a Hurricane Katrina of Heat. It’s Not Alone.

In his must-read book The Heat Will Kill You First , author Jeff Goodell talks to an Arizona State University infrastructure expert about the...

29.05.2024 20

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$215 Trillion to Save the Planet Is a Bargain

If you’ve ever carried a credit-card balance, you know the pain of watching interest charges accumulate, turning what was once a high but manageable...

22.05.2024 40

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Congratulations, Ron DeSantis Just Eliminated Climate Change

When King Canute commanded the tide to stop, he was trying to make a point about the limits of his powers. It seems Florida Governor Ron DeSantis...

18.05.2024 20

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US Wildfire Season Is Now Everywhere, All at Once

The toxic smoke choking swathes of the Midwestern US this week is a helpful reminder to Americans that Canada exists, and its wildfire season has...

17.05.2024 10

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Trump and Big Oil Are a Match Made in Climate Hell

If you are still uncertain about Donald Trump’s stance on climate change, then the fact that fossil-fuel companies are helping to pay his legal...

10.05.2024 20

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Do You Want the Good or Bad News on Tornadoes and Hurricanes?

If the Car Crash Fairy offered you a deal that would lower your odds of getting in a car accident, but the trade-off was that any accidents you did...

09.05.2024 60

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Not Even Elon Musk Can Doom the EV Charger Network

Elon Musk may not like to talk about this, but Tesla Inc. probably wouldn’t be one of the world’s biggest automakers today if not for a $465...

02.05.2024 10

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Voters Can’t Tell Between the Arsonist and the Fireman

If you were shopping for toaster ovens and your choice was between one that posed a 1% chance of setting your house on fire and a competing one that...

30.04.2024 20

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No, Having Kids Right Now Doesn’t Make You a ‘Moron’

In the fictional world of the P.D. James novel Children of Men and its movie adaptation, humanity has lost the ability to reproduce and thus faces...

25.04.2024 70

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The Only Thing Climate Change Is Cooling Is Growth

Imagine you were running for king of the world on a platform of slashing economic growth by 20% forever. You’d be lucky to get your own family to...

22.04.2024 10

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Wildfire Smoke Is Coming for the US Again. We’re Not Ready.

Many Americans were surprised last year when smoke from wildfires hundreds of miles away turned their air toxic. There’s no excuse for anybody to be...

18.04.2024 10

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The Solar Revolution Is Dying in Waiting Lines

There’s an old proverb about how the lack of a horseshoe nail can doom a horse, then a rider, then an army, then a kingdom. In terms of the US...

16.04.2024 20

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Green Is the New Crypto for Corporate Rebranding

A fun thing about the dot-com and crypto booms was how companies with no previous connection to dot-com or crypto added those terms to their names and...

09.04.2024 40

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The Fed Deserves Its D- Grade on Climate Change

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell often argues the central bank has no business making climate-change policy. But it should be careful it doesn’t...

05.04.2024 30

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Sorry, But Joe Biden Can’t Build Your EV Charger

Picture a future of electric cars everywhere, including your driveway, along with the charging stations necessary to keep them running. Head downtown...

04.04.2024 10

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