June was the 13th month in a row to break global heat records, and the summer of 2024 already has seen more frequent and long-lived heat waves, hotter and bigger wildfires, longer lasting and more violent storms, and more heat-related…
Petrostates, tedious regulations and fossil fuel lobbyists doomed COP28 to fail
The United Nations held its annual climate change conference, COP28, late last year but produced little to show for its efforts. The U.N.’s Conference on Parties — meaning “all parties in the world” — met for the 28th straight year,…
What about China?
I have a friend who regularly hijacks my social media posts about climate change with a statement like, “There’s no point in investing all this money to transition away from fossil fuels unless China, India and Russia do the same.”…
I was thirsty and you made me work in the heat without water
This morning, I took my dogs for a walk because it was the coolest time of the day when their paws wouldn’t be scorched on pavement in our multiple days of temperatures that feel like it’s 100+ degrees. Living in…
Los Angeles faces a homeless ‘emergency’ as global warming changes the equation
On Tuesday, Jan. 10, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors declared a local state of emergency on homelessness. This follows last month’s action by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, when on Dec. 12 she declared a city-wide state of…
Yes, global warming remains dangerous, but the evidence shows human action does make a difference, leading climatologist contends
As dire as the global climate crisis is, human action to mitigate disaster actually has made the future less bad than it would have been, according to one of the world’s foremost climate scientists — who also happens to be…
A view from the drought: How climate change and hunger and the war in Ukraine are conspiring against life in Africa
In many parts of the world today, two major issues of concern are the rising cost of goods and services, and the scarcity of food. The inflationary aspect is in part connected to the war in Ukraine and the crisis…
National Association of Evangelicals joins call for attention to climate change
A newly released report on faith and the environment comes from an unlikely source — the National Association of Evangelicals. While many evangelical Christians are known as deniers of climate change science and boosters of fossil-fuel energy — a known…
The fantastical world of climate change denial: Slouching toward annihilation
Climate change presents the greatest existential threat to human existence in history. The alleged worldwide flood of Noah pales in comparison. A group of politicians and preachers who should know better, and perhaps do, have responded as if they were…