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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Picture a future of electric cars everywhere, including your driveway, along with the charging stations necessary to keep them running. Head downtown...
Fifty years ago, the term “energy security” meant “we need oil and we need it now.” In the modern world, where energy comes in many forms,...
Ten years ago, former Treasury Secretary and Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer Hank Paulson warned of a “climate bubble,” noting parallels...
Which do you think costs more: Giving outdoor employees a break every now and then for some shade and water or stopping all work periodically while...
As you can tell from the reader numbers on my columns, it is often very difficult to get people to consume content about the climate. In other news, a...
Mario Cuomo once said politicians should campaign in poetry but govern in prose. President Joe Biden’s climate policy seems to have taken that to...
One of global warming’s more colorful dangers is the possibility that melting permafrost will revive prehistoric diseases and trigger horrific...
Spring doesn’t officially begin for more than three weeks, but it came early to Chicago this week, with temperatures hitting a pleasant 74 degrees...
Back in the 1990s, political guru James Carville said he wanted to be reincarnated as the bond market because it could “intimidate everybody.”...
You really have to hand it to Arizona: Even as its population has doubled and it has suffered through a decadeslong megadrought, the state uses less...
Unless thirsty aliens come and take it, Earth’s water isn’t going anywhere. It’s just becoming increasingly difficult for thirsty humans to...
If you were forced to guess the one political issue that will decide the 2024 US election based on sheer volume of news coverage, you might pick...
In February 2015, early in what was once the hottest year in human history, the former Senator James Inhofe addressed his colleagues on the Senate...
If you’re like me and look forward to snow about as much as you look forward to outpatient surgery, then recent winters have been almost blissful in...
Without really meaning to, farmers in a small California valley have spent the past 30 years in an experiment to see what happens when the groundwater...
For most of the centuries humans have despoiled Earth’s climate, the consequences have felt more like a “tomorrow” problem than a “now”...
It’s nearly impossible to get every country in the world to agree on anything. But at the latest United Nations climate talks, leaders representing...
Like over-caffeinated college students, Sultan Al Jaber, John Kerry and other COP28 delegates pulled an all-nighter to turn what could have been an...
If there’s one climate-change solution everybody seems to agree on, it’s that trees are good. Even Donald Trump, who has called climate change a...
How many people do you think it takes to hammer out a global climate agreement? 500? 5,000? 50,000? Apparently, the correct answer is 70,000....
Humans are very likely the only species that can imagine very distant futures. Unfortunately, our brains aren’t wired to behave in a way that...
The simmering volcano in Grindavik, Iceland, will wreak a lot of havoc when it erupts, possibly in a matter of hours. It’s already triggering...
Humanity largely agrees climate change is an existential threat to civilization. You can bet global leaders will harrumph as much again at the big...
It’s hard to think of the vast and powerful Mississippi River as anything other than mighty. But decades of misuse and a heating planet are saddling...
If the future of human civilization hinges on the past few months of stock-market action, then it may be time to learn to hunt, gather and craft...
Learning that new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson doesn’t believe humans have caused a climate emergency is about as shocking as learning that...
One of the few silver linings of hurricanes, relative to other natural disasters such as earthquakes or tornadoes, is that they usually develop and...
David Foster Wallace had this joke in which an old fish passes by a couple of young fish and says, “Morning boys. How’s the water?” And one of...
In the universe of possible tools to fight climate change, it’s hard to think of one that would be more politically toxic than a tax on...
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