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Mark Gongloff

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Good Riddance to El Niño, But La Niña Won’t Be Much Relief

The record-smashing global heat of the past year has been driven partly by an El Niño weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean. The good news is that El...

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Phoenix Is Facing a Hurricane Katrina of Heat. It’s Not Alone.

In his must-read book The Heat Will Kill You First , author Jeff Goodell talks to an Arizona State University infrastructure expert about the...

29.05.2024 20

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$215 Trillion to Save the Planet Is a Bargain

If you’ve ever carried a credit-card balance, you know the pain of watching interest charges accumulate, turning what was once a high but manageable...

22.05.2024 40

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Congratulations, Ron DeSantis Just Eliminated Climate Change

When King Canute commanded the tide to stop, he was trying to make a point about the limits of his powers. It seems Florida Governor Ron DeSantis...

18.05.2024 20

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US Wildfire Season Is Now Everywhere, All at Once

The toxic smoke choking swathes of the Midwestern US this week is a helpful reminder to Americans that Canada exists, and its wildfire season has...

17.05.2024 10

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Trump and Big Oil Are a Match Made in Climate Hell

If you are still uncertain about Donald Trump’s stance on climate change, then the fact that fossil-fuel companies are helping to pay his legal...

10.05.2024 20

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Do You Want the Good or Bad News on Tornadoes and Hurricanes?

If the Car Crash Fairy offered you a deal that would lower your odds of getting in a car accident, but the trade-off was that any accidents you did...

09.05.2024 60

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Not Even Elon Musk Can Doom the EV Charger Network

Elon Musk may not like to talk about this, but Tesla Inc. probably wouldn’t be one of the world’s biggest automakers today if not for a $465...

02.05.2024 10

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Voters Can’t Tell Between the Arsonist and the Fireman

If you were shopping for toaster ovens and your choice was between one that posed a 1% chance of setting your house on fire and a competing one that...

30.04.2024 20

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No, Having Kids Right Now Doesn’t Make You a ‘Moron’

In the fictional world of the P.D. James novel Children of Men and its movie adaptation, humanity has lost the ability to reproduce and thus faces...

25.04.2024 70

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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...

22.04.2024 10

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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 10

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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 20

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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 9

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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 40

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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 8

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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 20

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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 7

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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 40

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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 30

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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 20

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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 9

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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 10

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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 10

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