climate

More pollution means worse health impacts, meaning more medical bills. Less clean energy means higher electricity and transportation bills. Being less competitive globally means a $2.3 trillion loss of GDP by 2040.

“The US having to cancel major 4th of July celebrations because of extreme heat is almost too spot on as a metaphor for the country’s failure to combat global warming.”—Fossil Free Media director Jamie Henn.

New food shortages growing into overwhelming global catastrophe seems all too possible.

WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo: “Extreme heat is increasingly defining the conditions under which agrifood systems operate."

UN Secretary-General António Guterres: "Humanity has just endured the 11 hottest years on record. When history repeats itself 11 times, it is no longer a coincidence. It is a call to act."

Energy Secretary Wright and other “energy dominance” muckety-mucks dismiss the burned towns, flooded neighborhoods, disrupted harvests, displaced communities, and sea-level rise. But they cannot ignore the economics.

A cabal of activists eager to see an end to all climate initiatives are getting oodles of help from the Trump regime

Encouraging as the favorable court rulings are, they are not an unambiguous victory for renewable energy. Trump is losing in court. But he’s still succeeding at delay.

Facts about the climate crisis have not failed to convince certain people because the science is weak. It’s failed because human belief systems are not built to update like spreadsheets.

Oceans are heating in a way that feels less a warning than a verdict, absorbing most of the damage inflicted by an economic system that treats the atmosphere as a free sewer and the sea as an infinite sponge.

Findings in the report make one thing unmistakably clear: the Arctic has passed the threshold of gradual change and entered a regime of systemic failure.

Federal district judge rules White House's Wind Order barring all future offshore wind leases and mandating reviews of any in the pipeline, saying the order is "arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law,” 

In addition to all the other deficits of the 2025 NSS, it mentions climate just once, and then only to reject the whole concept.

Together with the attack on solar and wind, the White House's move to greatly weaken CAFE standards is a prescription for national decay amid global crisis — harming the economy, the environment, and public health.

Phasing out coal, oil, and natural gas is essential for dealing with the climate crisis. But myopic world leaders at this year's global get-together couldn't get it together to build a phase-out roadmap. Next year, they say.

Wetlands and old-growth forests stabilize carbon, sustain indigenous subsistence, buffer storms. Their destruction disproportionately burdens Indigenous peoples, rural communities, poor people and people of color who live in the “extractive zones” of this nation.

We're on a trajectory to hit 2.6°C (4.7°F) of warming by 2100. If that prediction turns out to be right, it will be catastrophic.

Brazil promises a “conference of action.” But unless fossil-fuel power is broken, implementation will mean only managed decline — and another squandered decade.

The EPA had an honor system under which corporations estimated their emissions. A new investigative report shows many of those estimates were way way way off the real levels. Intentional undercount? Surely not.

Greenhouse gas emissions predicted to decline 10% over 1990 by 2035. But to constrain warming the decline needs to be 60%