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The Only Thing Climate Change Is Cooling Is Growth

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...

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Wildfire Smoke Is Coming for the US Again. We’re Not Ready.

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...

18.04.2024 5

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The Solar Revolution Is Dying in Waiting Lines

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...

16.04.2024 10

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Green Is the New Crypto for Corporate Rebranding

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...

09.04.2024 40

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The Fed Deserves Its D- Grade on Climate Change

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...

05.04.2024 30

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Sorry, But Joe Biden Can’t Build Your EV Charger

Picture a future of electric cars everywhere, including your driveway, along with the charging stations necessary to keep them running. Head downtown...

04.04.2024 10

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Big Oil Has Found a Clever New Way to Hurt the Climate

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,...

25.03.2024 30

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Too Many Homes Rest on a Slab of Climate Delusion

Ten years ago, former Treasury Secretary and Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer Hank Paulson warned of a “climate bubble,” noting parallels...

21.03.2024 7

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Florida Apparently Wants Workers to Die in the Heat

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...

14.03.2024 20

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‘Dune’ Is a Climate Story We Can Actually Root For

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...

06.03.2024 2

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New SEC Climate Rules Are Weak, But They’re Progress

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...

06.03.2024 2

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Climate Change and Nuclear Waste Are a Toxic Stew

One of global warming’s more colorful dangers is the possibility that melting permafrost will revive prehistoric diseases and trigger horrific...

05.03.2024 1

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3 Seasons in 24 Hours Stump Climate Change Deniers

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...

28.02.2024 3

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Homeowners Will Pay the Price for Builders' Anti-Green Efforts

Back in the 1990s, political guru James Carville said he wanted to be reincarnated as the bond market because it could “intimidate everybody.”...

27.02.2024 5

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Arizona Is Smart About Water. It Should Stay That Way.

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...

12.02.2024 10

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Groundwater Is Vanishing Worldwide, But It Can Be Rescued

Unless thirsty aliens come and take it, Earth’s water isn’t going anywhere. It’s just becoming increasingly difficult for thirsty humans to...

01.02.2024 3

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The 2024 Election Just Might Turn on … Climate Change?

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...

22.01.2024 5

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Subzero Days Don’t Contradict Climate Change

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...

12.01.2024 4

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Don’t Be Fooled, Snow Is Becoming a Thing of the Past

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...

08.01.2024 8

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Taxing Groundwater Is a Sure Way to Preserve It

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...

04.01.2024 7

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2023 Climate Power Rankings: The Year Heat Came to Stay

For most of the centuries humans have despoiled Earth’s climate, the consequences have felt more like a “tomorrow” problem than a “now”...

27.12.2023 20

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Coal Is the Climate Scourge That Just Won't Go Away

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...

21.12.2023 10

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The COP28 Deal Is Missing One Big Thing: Money

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...

13.12.2023 6

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No, Virginia, Your Christmas Tree Is Not a Climate Crime

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...

08.12.2023 5

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Do 70,000 People Really Need to Be at a Climate Confab?

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....

30.11.2023 7

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Human Brains Aren't Wired to Fight Climate Change

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...

19.11.2023 8

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The Grindavik Volcano Won’t Spew More Carbon Than Humanity

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...

15.11.2023 2

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$266 Trillion in Climate Spending Is a No-Brainer

Humanity largely agrees climate change is an existential threat to civilization. You can bet global leaders will harrumph as much again at the big...

13.11.2023 10

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Old Man River Suffers Chronic Climate Ailments

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...

07.11.2023 6

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Clean-Energy Stocks Aren’t as Toxic as They Look

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...

03.11.2023 6

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New House Speaker Widens Partisan Climate Divide

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...

29.10.2023 9

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‘Nightmare’ Hurricanes Are Popping Up Out of Nowhere

One of the few silver linings of hurricanes, relative to other natural disasters such as earthquakes or tornadoes, is that they usually develop and...

25.10.2023 2

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Texas Schools Flunk Climate Change With Faulty Textbooks

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...

24.10.2023 6

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Taxing Cheeseburgers Could Help Save the Climate

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...

17.10.2023 3

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Add Inflation to Reasons to Worry About Climate Change

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13.10.2023 2

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Biden’s Words on Climate Change Don’t Match His Actions

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21.09.2023 2

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Apple’s Climate Claims Deserve Scrutiny

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13.09.2023 2

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FEMA Isn’t Ready for Our New Age of Climate Disasters

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12.09.2023 5

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Climate Scientists Aren’t Being Forced to Exaggerate

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08.09.2023 2

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