Dave Levitan
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Hurricane season gets weird: Fiona, Ian and climate change’s effects on the strongest storms
Puerto Rico still struggles and Florida hunkers down as stronger, more damaging storms become the norm. → Read More
The One Political Issue Couples Ignore
Do you know your partner’s views on climate change? A new study says it’s not likely. → Read More
NASA’s Space Satellites Are Spying on Our Rising Seas
The newest ocean-observing satellite has started to offer the most accurate picture yet of the rising waters. → Read More
The Lost Decades
Hello to all the new subscribers. Thanks for reading. Tell your friends. Shun climate deniers. Ten years ago, in December 2009, President Obama traveled to Copenhagen to try and salvage the highly anticipated COP15 climate summit, which was teetering on the edge of failure. He said some lofty, well-intentioned things. → Read More
Should People Be Allowed to Get Rich on Global Warming?
The ethical complications—and inevitability—of climate profiteering → Read More
The Cost of Doing Nothing About Global Warming
Republicans keep saying the Green New Deal is too expensive. But their plan—to ignore the climate crisis—is even more so. → Read More
The Green New Deal Costs Less Than Doing Nothing
Republicans keep saying Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's plan is too expensive. But their own plan—to ignore the climate crisis—is even more so. → Read More
The Mental-Health Burden of Climate Change Continues Long After the Storm
‘I don’t think we are ready for the coming tsunami of climate mental health impacts.’ → Read More
Who Are the Greenest Candidates of the 2020 Race?
Some candidates are walking the talk. Others are far murkier. → Read More
Climate Change Will Ravage the Red States, Too
Move away from the rising seas and you may find yourself fighting extreme temperatures, floods, and poison air. → Read More
Trump’s Budget Hypocritically Slashes 3 Big Areas in Science
The president has made some big promises to fund scientific research. His budget proposal tells a different story. → Read More
Author Of 1983 EPA Report On Global Warming Explains Why He's Still Hopeful After 36 Years Of Being Ignored
In 1983, the Environmental Protection Agency published a report titled “Can We Delay A Greenhouse Warming?” It ran through the latest predictions on climate change, and analysed the feasibility of several policy options, from taxes to fossil fuel bans, that could slow the coming catastrophe. It is one of the... → Read More
Health departments are on climate change’s front lines
From extreme heat to mosquito-borne diseases, climate change is having a huge public health impact. Can health departments keep up? → Read More
Geoengineering Is Inevitable
Here’s what’s going to happen: Every year for the foreseeable future, scientists, activists, and citizens concerned about climate change will have a discussion in one form or another about geoengineering. There will be editorials and vague proposals in journals; there will be think pieces on the need not to do it,... → Read More
Madagascar Road Number 7 Should Be Next on Your Road Trip Bucket List
Driving through Madagascar, a country caught between modernization and tradition, it feels almost insulting to look away, even for a few minutes—you would miss too much. → Read More
Young People Are Convincing Politicians to Stop Taking Fossil Fuel Money
PHILADELPHIA—The temperature reached a sticky 92 degrees on Wednesday, and hadn’t cooled much by the time the climate action rally started at 5 o’clock. About 50 people gathered in the inner courtyard of City Hall, holding “No Fossil Fuel Money” and “Our Time to Lead” signs. The leaders of the rally, from a youth-led climate group known as the Sunrise Movement, still sported the City Hall… → Read More
Is nuclear power our energy future — or a dinosaur in a death spiral?
Identical data yield drastically different conclusions about the role nuclear will play in meeting climate goals. → Read More
"People Have Been Killed for Less": The Bizarre Letters Sent to Presidential Science Advisors
Along with counseling the president on nuclear energy and space exploration, the advisors politely replied to wild scientific theories mailed in from around the country. → Read More
Congress’s Only Physicist Explains What’s at Stake for Science This Year
In March, Congress passed a massive spending bill, averting (further) government shutdowns. Though he threw a minor tantrum about it, President Trump signed the bill into law. Among the various things that might have spawned the whining was the complete reversal of the White House budget requests when it came to science. The bill was, to most everyone’s surprise, a victory for science nearly… → Read More
Why Are the Doctors in Congress So Terrible?
In September of last year, American Medical Association CEO James Madara wrote a letter to Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer, urging them to abandon the efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. It wasn’t his first such letter. → Read More