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Chris Hatch

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Welcome to Trump's America where wildfires rage and oil flows

The year is barely underway and the paradoxes are already bleak. Climate fires exploded in LA just after Trump’s certification as winner of the US...

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Great climate non-fiction books are popping up faster than solar panels

“A good book is like a hydra.” wrote one reader, Kirk, this week. “Causing several more entries of must-read books to my ever growing list. ...

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Climate reparations aren't charity, they're a responsibility

International climate negotiations rarely end on an upbeat note, but the latest edition staggered to an even more acrimonious ending than usual. ...

02.12.2024 5

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Burning comforting illusions in the land of fire

The president of Azerbaijan opened this year’s UN climate summit declaring that oil and gas are a “gift from God.”  Far from a reckoning with...

18.11.2024 3

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Coping with the Trumpsterfire

Thank you for all of your responses to last week’s question: “How are you coping?”  Your answers feel even more on point with Donald Trump...

12.11.2024 10

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The death of EV sales has been greatly exaggerated

Stopped at a school crossing a couple of weeks ago, a cheerful tangle of tweens turned towards me and a helpful kid called out: “Hey, your...

28.10.2024 4

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Humanity needs a 'double movement' to stabilize our climate

As the leaves fall and the shirts turn flannel, climate advocates know it's time to ready themselves for the annual COP season — when the...

21.10.2024 4

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When conspiracy theories and climate disasters collide

It was supposed to work the other way around: Intensifying storms would jolt us awake, intensifying efforts to tackle climate change. But our...

15.10.2024 30

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How climate change inundated a ‘climate haven’

All the dry stats about climate change can obscure a more fundamental truth: We are fools to court the violence of nature. It’s one thing to...

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A potent force against fossil fuels

The global campaign against fossil fuels got a major boost in New York this week with the appointment of Kumi Naidoo as president of the Fossil...

01.10.2024 3

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Pierre Poilievre's carbon tax obsession is getting a little creepy

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is riding high in the polls, but roughly half the public say they are fearful about the prospect of a...

23.09.2024 3

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Despite the heat, climate change policy gets the cold shoulder

It was the hottest summer ever measured. Probably the hottest in 120,000 years. All those broken records, and the heat trajectory, they’re more...

16.09.2024 1

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Jasper and the great sadness

Jasper has me stumbling for words. “Grief” doesn’t capture the feeling. That seems too precise. There isn’t even anger, not yet anyway. Just a...

29.07.2024 2

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Zooming off to jail for climate activism

Better scrutinize the participants list on your next Zoom call. Five climate activists in the U.K. just got multi-year jail sentences for planning...

22.07.2024 1

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One whole year above 1.5

The PR pros will tell you not to bother talking about arcane topics like 1.5 degrees — no normies understand the significance, and it just sounds...

15.07.2024 4

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