Posts on: Global Warming

The Senate Finance Committee is trying to kill the renewable energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act, and, unsurprisingly, the changes will hit homeowners and small businesses the hardest. The […]

One of the biggest challenges in addressing climate change is illustrated by the “boiling frog” metaphor: A frog sitting in a pot of water that is being heated gradually will […]

The National Climate Assessment, an ongoing project to review the nation’s climate change preparedness, has been the subject of attacks by the current administration, which dismissed hundreds of scientists working […]

Multiple states, including New York and Vermont, have passed or are preparing Climate Change Superfund Acts, legislation which requires fossil fuel companies to pay into a fund to defray the […]

In Kim Stanley Robinson’s climate fiction novel The Ministry for the Future, the story begins during an extreme heat wave in India. Temperatures and humidity, together known as “wet bulb […]

Trade-offs: they’re unavoidable. As the world attempts to wean itself off its 100-year-long fossil fuel high, a new challenge arises. Batteries, solar panels and wind turbines all require mined materials […]

If we lived in a more reasonable- some might say more sane- world, the need to adapt to a warming world would not be a political issue. Alas, we are […]

On Monday, City Limits published this Op-Ed by Solar One Senior Policy Manager Kate Selden and Cooper Square Committee’s Resiliency Coordinator and Housing Organizer Alex Lee, encouraging the expansion of […]

What happens when dry weather is closely followed by wet weather, which is then closely followed by windy weather? Devastating wildfires like the ones raging through neighborhoods in and around […]

In November, government leaders convened in Azerbaijan for COP 29, the international climate conference where the world’s nations are supposed to be applying themselves to addressing the climate crisis. As […]