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Climate Crisis

The levels of carbon currently in the Earth's atmosphere are unprecedented in the historical and geological records. Still, the climate crisis does have a history.

We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization’s Collapse

Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland?

by Michael Klare via The Nation on August 22, 2023

President Obama wipes the sweat from his forehead at a press conference.

We Now Know the Full Extent of Obama’s Disastrous Apathy Toward the Climate Crisis

Obama’s official oral history contains new evidence of his indifference and foot-dragging on the most important issue of our time.

by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on June 5, 2023

Photos of various instances of climate change's effects such as wildfires and hurricanes.

Climate Change Is Destroying American History

As climate change increases the severity of extreme weather events, the nation’s legacy is at risk.

by John Garrison Marks via Made By History on August 25, 2022

How Polluting Industries Mobilized to Block Climate Action

Since its inception, the IPCC itself has been the target of corporate obstructionism.

by Amy Westervelt via The Intercept on April 12, 2022

Collage of the U.S. Capitol, a factory, and the earth, connected by coins and price tag stickers.

How the Oil Industry Cast Climate Policy as an Economic Burden

For 30 years, the debate has largely ignored the soaring costs of inaction.

by Kate Yoder via Grist on April 7, 2022

Drawing of 19th century woman in science laboratory

Scientists Understood Physics of Climate Change in the 1800s – Thanks to a Woman Named Eunice Foote

The results of Foote's simple experiments were confirmed through hundreds of tests by scientists in the US and Europe. It happened more than a century ago.

by Sylvia G. Dee via The Conversation on July 22, 2021

From Saving the Earth to Ruling the World

The transformation of the environmental movement.

by Christopher Caldwell via Claremont Review of Books on November 1, 2019

The Scientist Who Lost America's First Climate War

The explorer John Wesley Powell tried to prevent the overdevelopment of the West.

by John F. Ross via The Atlantic on September 10, 2018

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Paying for Climate Change

Despite his extreme rhetoric, Trump is merely the latest in a long line of U.S. leaders unwilling to pony up for global environmental accords.

by Stephen Macekura on January 16, 2018

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Was It Bad Luck or Climate Change?

Our circumstances have changed a lot since early colonial times. Unfortunately, our thinking about climate hasn’t changed enough.

by Sam White via HNN on September 17, 2017

What 100-Year-Old Hurricanes Could Teach Us About Irma

Can the history of hurricanes prove the existence of climate change?

by Maggie Koerth-Baker via FiveThirtyEight on September 11, 2017

What Good Is Fear?

As we face down the threat of climate change, it’s worth considering how fear of nuclear war has spurred humanity into action.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 20, 2017

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Grass Roots Activists Won the War on Smoking. Can They Win the War on Climate Change?

They can if they study the tobacco playbook.

by Sarah Milov via Made by History on June 29, 2017

In 1975, Newsweek Predicted A New Ice Age. We’re Still Living with the Consequences.

All climate change deniers needed was one article to cast doubt on the science of global warming.

by Jack El-Hai via Longreads on April 13, 2017

Letter From a Drowned Canyon

The story of water in the West, climate change, and the birth of modern environmentalism lies at the bottom of Lake Powell.

by Rebecca Solnit via The California Sunday Magazine on March 30, 2017

Photo collage showing an anti-abortion rally, a same-sex marriage, and the Supreme Court, among other things.

How U.S. Public Opinion Has Changed in 20 Years of Our Surveys

We took a closer look at how Americans’ views and experiences have evolved on a variety of topics over the last 20 years.

by Jenn Hatfield via Pew Research Center on September 13, 2024

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testifying before the Senate Budget Committee in 2009.

The Intractable Puzzle of Growth

The key measure of a healthy economy has long been growth, yet if production and consumption expand at their current rate we risk the health of the planet.

by Benjamin Kunkel via The Nation on August 26, 2024

An oil well at Signal Hill near Long Beach.

It’s Oil That Makes LA Boil

I never knew I lived in an oil town until I went looking for the concealed infrastructure of fossil fuel production.

by Jonathan S. Blake via Noema on July 30, 2024

Public Universities Are Profiting In Billions From Industries On Stolen Indigenous Land

Extractive industries filling public university coffers on stolen land. Here's how 14 land-grant colleges took 8.2 million acres from 123 Indigenous nations.

by Robert Lee, Tristan Ahtone, Amanda Tachine, An Garagiola, Audrianna Goodwin, Maria Parazo Rose, Clayton Aldern via Grist on February 7, 2024

Dead Links

Maintaining the internet data of dead people.

by Tamara Kneese via Public Books on October 31, 2023

The low water level at Woodhead reservoir.

The “Tragedy of the Commons” Is a Dubious, Right-Wing Concept

The environmental crisis isn’t the result of the “tragedy of the commons.” It’s the result of the commons’ theft and privatization for profit.

by Arinn Amer via Jacobin on October 20, 2023

Just Transition: Learning From the Tactics of Past Labor Movements

It is time to recognize the power that organized labor can wield to fight for environmental, economic and social justice.

by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Dylan Plummer via The Trouble on October 12, 2023

Addicted to Cool

How the dream of air conditioning turned into the dark future of climate change.

by Philip Kennicott via Washington Post on September 21, 2023

Inside Exxon's Strategy To Downplay Climate Change

Internal documents show what the oil giant said publicly was very different from how it approached the issue privately in the Tillerson era.

by Christopher Matthews, Collin Eaton via The Wall Street Journal on September 14, 2023

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Healing the Ozone: First Steps Toward Success

A worldwide effort to heal damage to the ozone layer is showing early progress.

via Retro Report on September 12, 2023

Madeline Potts, a nurse with Chicago's Public Health Department, checks on a man at one of several cooling centers in the city July 28, 1995.

A Heat Wave Killed Hundreds in Chicago Nearly 30 Years Ago

As record temperatures bake portions of the United States this summer, a Chicago heat wave in 1995 offers a grim preview of the toll from climate change.

by Kim Bellware via Retropolis on July 10, 2023

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Science Historian Naomi Oreskes Schools the Supreme Court on Climate Change

The Lost History of What Americans Knew About Climate Change in the 1960s

The “Carbon Dioxide Problem”: Nixon’s Inner Circle Debates the Climate Crisis

In California, Climate Chaos Looms Over Prisons — and Thousands of Prisoners

Climate Crisis

We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization’s Collapse

We Now Know the Full Extent of Obama’s Disastrous Apathy Toward the Climate Crisis

Climate Change Is Destroying American History

How Polluting Industries Mobilized to Block Climate Action

How the Oil Industry Cast Climate Policy as an Economic Burden

Scientists Understood Physics of Climate Change in the 1800s – Thanks to a Woman Named Eunice Foote

From Saving the Earth to Ruling the World

The Scientist Who Lost America's First Climate War

Paying for Climate Change

Was It Bad Luck or Climate Change?

What 100-Year-Old Hurricanes Could Teach Us About Irma

What Good Is Fear?

Grass Roots Activists Won the War on Smoking. Can They Win the War on Climate Change?

In 1975, Newsweek Predicted A New Ice Age. We’re Still Living with the Consequences.

Letter From a Drowned Canyon

How U.S. Public Opinion Has Changed in 20 Years of Our Surveys

The Intractable Puzzle of Growth

It’s Oil That Makes LA Boil

Public Universities Are Profiting In Billions From Industries On Stolen Indigenous Land

Dead Links

The “Tragedy of the Commons” Is a Dubious, Right-Wing Concept

Just Transition: Learning From the Tactics of Past Labor Movements

Addicted to Cool

Inside Exxon's Strategy To Downplay Climate Change

Healing the Ozone: First Steps Toward Success

A Heat Wave Killed Hundreds in Chicago Nearly 30 Years Ago

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