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Life After Warming
life after warming
Nov. 8, 2022
How to Live in a Catastrophe In search of a way to think clearly about the planetary crisis.
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Apr. 21, 2022
‘We Woke Up and We Lost Half Our Water’ It’s the first major test of the American political system’s ability to collaboratively adapt to climate change.
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Apr. 15, 2022
After Two Years, Extinction Rebellion Returns “No one should be holding back. Because we have everything to lose.”
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Jan. 1, 2022
The Return of the Urban Firestorm Climate scientist Daniel Swain explains that what happened Thursday in Colorado wasn’t a wildfire, but something potentially much scarier.
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Nov. 17, 2021
This Is What Happens When One Climate Disaster Follows Another Just look at these images of flooding and landslides in British Columbia.
The Case for Climate Reparations A trillion tons of carbon hangs in the air, put there by the world’s rich, an existential threat to its poor. Can we remove it?
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July 1, 2021
How to Live in a Climate ‘Permanent Emergency’ Death Valley temperatures in the Pacific Northwest and Canada show we’ve entered the era of climate adaption.
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June 16, 2021
California’s Last Fire Season Was a Historic Disaster. This One Could Be Worse. The conditions are already set for eclipsing recent records — which themselves would have been unthinkable not long ago.
Is 1.5 Degrees Still Possible? Sudden decarbonization seems tantalizingly close to reality, but steep challenges to limiting global warming remain.
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Jan. 19, 2021
After Climate Alarmism The war on denial has been won. And that’s not the only good news.
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Sept. 11, 2020
California Can’t Afford to Wait for Climate Action The horrific fires of 2020 are just a preview. No matter what we do, two to four times as much land area will soon burn annually in the West.
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Aug. 21, 2020
California Has Australian Problems Now The extreme wildfires the state is battling are apocalyptic heralds of climate change. And the scariest part is that they could be worse.
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Aug. 14, 2020
What Climate Alarm Has Already Achieved Even as we “normalize” climate change, we’ve also normalized alarmism, with panic about warming suddenly at the very center of our politics.
Jay Inslee on How Joe Biden Got Progressive on Climate Change The Washington governor who set the bar for climate pledges discusses Biden’s ambitious new policy and how the pandemic radicalized the nominee.
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June 27, 2020
Global Warming Is Melting Our Sense of Time Climate change isn’t just a brutal form of time travel to both the future and prehuman past, it is discombobulating to our very sense of linear time.
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May 19, 2020
Welcome to the End of the ‘Human Climate Niche’ The pandemic shows how hard it is going to be to adapt comfortably to climate change.
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Apr. 8, 2020
The Coronavirus Is a Preview of Our Climate-Change Future The warming of the planet will lead to pandemics that are far more dangerous and disruptive.
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Mar. 31, 2020
The EPA Is Another Coronavirus Casualty Climate activists and climate enemies both see opportunity in the pandemic.
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Feb. 26, 2020
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Feb. 21, 2020
Jeff Bezos’s $10 Billion Climate Pledge Is Actually Tiny Judged by the standards of the climate crisis, the sum is, practically speaking, almost nothing.
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Dec. 31, 2019
Global Apathy Toward the Fires in Australia Is a Scary Portent for the Future A months-long climate disaster in a wealthy, white country is tailor-made to dominate news coverage. It hasn’t.
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Dec. 20, 2019
Here’s Some Good News on Climate Change: Worst-Case Scenario Looks Unrealistic Global energy use patterns suggest some baseline assumptions about warming are too high. What remains is still a stiff challenge to humanity.
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Dec. 16, 2019
U.N. Climate Talks Collapsed in Madrid. What’s the Way Forward? Following the unsuccessful COP25 conference in Madrid, it’s time to think about a new framework for climate action.
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Oct. 28, 2019
This Is What a Calm California Wildfire Season Looks Like Now A dozen wildfires are burning, and the state is at the mercy of the wind.
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Oct. 15, 2019
Extinction Rebellion and the Birth of a New Climate Politics The U.K. movement’s claims might be exaggerated, but it shows us how the world is ready to grapple with the depth of the problem.
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Aug. 26, 2019
The Glimmer of a Climate New World Order Until the G-7, the nations of the world had never before chosen to punish bad behavior on climate change. That may not change all that much — yet.
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Aug. 23, 2019
The Political Status Quo Is No Match for Climate Change As the Amazon rainforest burns at an alarming rate in Bolsonaro’s Brazil, Jay Inslee’s climate change presidential candidacy flames out.
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June 21, 2019
Disaster Upon Disaster Flooding and tornadoes in the Midwest. Drought and extreme heat in India. The climate future is already here, we just can’t bear to look.
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June 13, 2019
We May Be Dooming Ourselves With Climate NIMBYism The uneven incentives of climate action are driving the world to inaction. There may be no way to escape the trap.
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May 12, 2019
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May 10, 2019
There’s a 49 Percent Chance the World As We Know It Will End by 2050 Jared Diamond’s new book addresses itself to a world in crisis, and tries to lift some lessons for what do about it from the distant past.
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Feb. 8, 2019
The Green New Deal Isn’t Enough. But Democrats Should Embrace It Anyway. The Green New Deal is the first American attempt to deal with climate change that takes the depth of the challenge seriously.
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Feb. 4, 2019
The Cautious Case for Climate Optimism (From a Climate Alarmist) Believing in a comfortable future for our planet probably means some giant carbon-sucking machines.
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Dec. 20, 2018
Parenting the Climate Change Generation Climate change isn’t a reason not to have kids. Kids are a reason to fight it.
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Dec. 14, 2018
You, Too, Are in Denial of Climate Change Most Americans believe, abstractly, in climate change. That’s not enough.
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Dec. 3, 2018
Why Al Gore Thinks There’s Still Hope for the Planet The environmentalist and former vice-president talks about wildfires, Donald Trump, and why he still has hope that we can preserve a livable planet.
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Nov. 29, 2018
What If the Courts Could Save the Climate? Juliana v. United States is a long shot, but it may not be as far-fetched as it seems.
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Nov. 12, 2018
How Climate Change Has Turned Rainy Season Into Fire Season in California The California wildfires have unleashed unconscionable suffering. Climate change could make them ten times worse.
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Oct. 31, 2018
Could One Man Single-Handedly Ruin the Planet? Brazil’s new president Jair Bolsonaro isn’t just a threat to Brazilian democracy. His war on the Amazon rainforest endangers the world.
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Oct. 24, 2018
Can a Carbon Tax Solve Climate Change? Well, No. A carbon tax is not a panacea for climate change, but it’s a good first step.
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Oct. 17, 2018
Trump’s Climate Denial Isn’t Just a War on Our Coasts. It’s a War on Our Brains. The damage small-particulate pollution does will be more severe on a warmer planet. The EPA has closed the office dedicated to studying it.
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Oct. 10, 2018
UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It’s Actually Worse Than That. The real meaning of the IPCC report isn’t “climate change is worse than you think.” We knew that. It’s “you now have permission to freak out.”
