How the new climate bill will shift U.S. climate policy
Republican obstructionism forces Senate Democrats into conflicting climate-impact compromise with passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Clean energy
Is nuclear power safe enough to be part of our non-carbon future?
Solar- and wind-power naysayers frequently chime about gaps in energy production at night or when the wind dies down, but energy storage is gaining ground as a viable, scalable solution.
Climate guidance for the Biden-Harris administration
The Climate 21 Project’s guidance on ways President Biden can take immediate steps to address the climate emergency and sidestep Republican obstructionism.
About that ‘Planet of the Humans’ controversy: Fact? Fiction? Both? Neither?
“Planet of the Humans” raises the critical issue of how should we move forward, knowing our path to date has not resulted in reduced emissions.
Climate and COVID-19: Other stories
Setting aside the rumors of how COVID-19 came to upend our lives everywhere, here’s a compilation of recent stories from trustworthy sources I frequent when searching for story ideas for this site.
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…
Greta Thunberg, 15, scolds immature world leaders for inaction on climate policy
As negotiators from 196 countries gathered in Poland to strive for an agreement on climate policy, it was a teenager from Sweden who emerged as…
Political will, leadership urgent now to stop catastrophic global warming
Urgent action is needed now to avoid the pending doom of our abnormally warming planet, but it will take political courage and leadership to achieve…
Ever-rising temps, but are your representatives feeling the heat?
Despite another year of record heat waves — and we have yet to see what August 2018 will bring — climate change deniers in Congress…
50 years of political pusillanimity intensifies global warming impact
In 1968, a group of researchers warned that increasing carbon dioxide emissions were certain to cause significant temperature changes by 2000, and beyond. But as…
