Global scorching

The 1974 holiday classic "The Year Without a Santa Claus" introduced us to Mother Nature's incorrigible son, Heat Miser, who controlled hot weather on Earth. But the rapidly increasing heating resulting from ever-rising greenhouse gas emissions is no laughing matter, as humanity careens toward more extreme weather events faster than expected.

9 May 2022

Global scorching ahead of schedule. Well done, humanity.

Earth’s average global temperature has 50-50 chance of crossing the 1.5 degree Celsius threshold as early as 2023.

The 2013 Alder Fire (pictured above) in Yellowstone National Park was one of five at the time caused by lightning strikes and fueled by warmer and drier weather and spread by strong winds. Lightning is attributed to 55 percent of burned acreage between 2016 and 2020. In 2020, California's largest fires were caused by lightning.

How climate and wildfire risk are linked

Members of the Texas National Guard help Houston residents from areas flooded by Hurricane Harvey, which swamped the region with record rainfall exasperated by the climate emergency.

Human-caused global heating attributable to half or more of Hurricane Harvey damages

The controversial climate documentary, "Planet of the Humans," with its not-so-subtle nod to "Planet of the Apes" pictured above (Charlton Heston as Taylor and Maurice Evans as Dr. Zeus) puts humanity -- and especially the environmental movement -- on trial.

About that ‘Planet of the Humans’ controversy: Fact? Fiction? Both? Neither?

Demonstrators gather in front of the Colorado State Capitol building for a "reopen Colorado" rally in Denver on April 19.

Climate and COVID-19: Other stories

Climate, shlimate. Cat-lazy world leaders continue to nap as climate crisis worsens. Yawn.

Climate shlimate – yet another urgent climate warning for “leaders” to ignore

Gerald Ford and Tip O'Neill

All climate change is local

Greta Thunberg makes a statement about our carbon footprint in her zero-emission transatlantic sailing journey

Greta Thunberg doesn’t care about your insecurities

Across the globe, youth lead a day of protest for urgent action on the climate emergency.

Anti-Thunberg op-ed rests climate crisis hope on America’s failing “democracy”

Plant a tree

27 July 2019

More trees, yes, but —

The recent study that planting trees could save the planet from catastrophic climate change has gathered a bit of attention — taken root, if you…

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