It’s doubtful that Donald Trump or the bloodthirsty armed supporters who invaded the US Capitol threatening to kidnap or kill Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi were thinking much about climate change at the time. Nevertheless, the mob Trump unleashed to try to overturn his election defeat was an assault […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. Humanity begins 2021 with a real chance to pull back from the brink of climate catastrophe. The odds get even better if Democrats win both Georgia run-off elections and take control of the US Senate. (At the time of writing, someoutlets had reported a victory for […]
Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. “I call on all leaders worldwide to declare a State of Climate Emergency in their own countries until carbon neutrality is reached.” So said United Nations Secretary General António Guterres in his speech to the Climate Ambition Summit on December 12, the fifth anniversary of the […]
On January 5, voters in Georgia will decide which political party controls the US Senate and, in turn, how far President-elect Joe Biden will be able to take his ambitious $2 trillion climate plan. For Democrats to take control of the Senate, Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff both need to win their runoffs against […]
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“I call on all leaders worldwide to declare a State of Climate Emergency in their own countries until carbon neutrality is reached.” So said United Nations Secretary General António Guterres in his speech to the Climate Ambition Summit on December 12, the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement. Guterres’s appeal seemed aimed at leaders of […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. In another sign that climate change has finally become a top-tier issue among American journalists, the fate of the planet featured prominently in last Sunday’s debates in the Georgia run-off elections that will determine control of the US Senate. After decades of the climate issue being […]
By Climate Signals Scroll to the end for scientists’ reactions and reach out to us for experts who are available for interviews. Remember the bushfires in Australia that wiped out a unique ecosystem and killed or displaced 3 billion animals? That was January of this year. It seems like a lifetime, but 2020 was just […]
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In our latest Talking Shop, leading journalists discussed the role climate played in the 2020 US elections, the incoming Biden administration’s climate plans, the outlook for the Paris Agreement, seismic shifts in global finance, and much more. We started with the breaking news that the world’s biggest climate polluters, encouraged by the UN Secretary General […]
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Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock are set to face off in a televised debate on Dec. 6th at 7 pm US Eastern Time. It’s the first head-to-head debate scheduled between the two candidates in advance of their Jan. 5 runoff election in Georgia. Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue, who is facing Democratic opponent […]
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