Juan Cole Informed Comment The UN Environmental Programme has issued a new report that admits that the world will almost certainly exceed the Paris Treaty goal of limiting global heating…
“We are seeing a trend of stronger El Niños, and the one we have now is consistent with that trend,” said the lead author. “That is bad news for climate…
Juan Cole Informed Comment Climate change devastated towns and villages of Nepal on August 26 with enormous flash floods that were produced by a melting glacier. The size, speed and…
H. Patricia Hynes Informed Comment Children attending Amani primary school in Nairobi, Kenya, are first given warm water, bathing soap and a seaweed-based body gel for washing before entering their…
Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate, New York Times, June 24, 1988: On June 23, 1988, NASA scientist Dr. James E. Hansen testified before the…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. The climate movement will never be effective as long as it refuses to confront white supremacy within its own organizations. And as a belief…
Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. As the climate crisis intensifies, bringing extreme weather events, fires, droughts and flooding to our communities, and governments refuse to take effective action, a growing…
Sarah Lazare, In These Times. Smoke, heat, storms. As wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes intensify, workers are increasingly fighting for basic protections on top of everything else. One morning, when…
Governments knew what was coming. They failed to act because the political costs of taking on the corporate sector were too immense. Those corporations are now more powerful than ever…
Jeff Masters, Yale Climate Connections When a weak 45-mph tropical storm named Harvey moved through the Lesser Antilles Islands in August 2017 and then petered out in the central Caribbean…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. So Why is the U.S. Climate “Movement” Ignoring Him? The climate crisis is first and foremost a crisis caused by the U.S. denying other…
H. Patricia Hynes Informed Comment The methodical destruction of Gaza and its people – in little over 1000 days – has taken the crime of genocide to an extreme unprecedented…
In his new book, Roger Hallam of Extinction Rebellion provides tools for effective resistance to climate collapse under repressive systems. Chris Hedges We are living in an age of climate…
Aaron Kirshenbaum Last week, millions of people around the world were subjected to record-breaking heatwaves. At least 25 deaths in the U.S. from this heat dome were reported. The French…
As extreme heat forces Fourth of July and America 250 celebrations to cancel or scale back across the country, the real story isn’t the weather—it’s the accelerating climate crisis reshaping…
