Brian Kahn
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New York, NY, United States
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The Nightmare Valero Site Claiming Fossil Fuels Are 'Essential for Life'
The oil and gas company would like you to think you could never live a good life without its products. It's the fossil fuel industry's latest trick. → Read More
It's Time to Nuke the Doomsday Clock
The clock is 100 seconds to midnight. But that tells us nothing about the world today. → Read More
Winter Weather Is Set to Mess With Texas
The state's beleaguered power grid will get its first real cold weather test since last year's horrific blackouts. → Read More
Exxon Pretends to Give a Shit
The company announced it plans to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. There are just a few teeny, tiny problems. → Read More
Tsunami Warnings Raised Following Tonga Volcanic Eruption
Nations across the Pacific have sounded the alarm about tsunamis after a violent eruption shook one of Tonga's volcanoes. → Read More
Extreme Cold, Snow, and Rain Is Coming to the East Coast to Ruin Your Long Weekend
The long weekend will feel even longer as wind chills go negative to start followed by snow and rain piling up. → Read More
Give the U.S. Postal Service $3 Billion to Electrify Its Fleet, You Cowards
A new report finds it would take a measly extra few billion to get all USPS trucks running on electricity. → Read More
There Is No Adapting to Extreme Weather
The U.S. is hemorrhaging money and lives in the face of the climate crisis. No level of adaptation can keep up without cutting emissions. → Read More
Joe Biden Is Losing the War Against Inefficient Appliances
The Energy Department is dealing with bureaucratic hurdles to undo Trump era rules, allowing inefficient appliances to stay on the market. → Read More
The Northeast Is About to Face a Gnarly Winter Storm
Snowfall rates in excess of an inch an hour and dangerous travel conditions will overtake the I-95 corridor on Thursday into Friday. → Read More
Boaty McBoatface Is Set to Confront Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier
Scientists are dispatching the autonomous sub and a host of other instruments to get a detailed view of the what's going on under Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier. → Read More
There Was Way Too Much Lightning in the Arctic Last Year
More electric skies at the top of the world are yet another indicator of just how weird things are getting. → Read More
There Was Way Too Much Lightning in the Arctic Last Year
More electric skies at the top of the world are yet another indicator of just how weird things are getting. → Read More
We'll Believe It When We See It, Joe
The West Virginia senator now says passing climate legislation should be easy, actually. → Read More
December Was Likely the Hottest on Record for the U.S.
The weather wasn't just wild, it was also incredibly hot across large parts of the Lower 48, leading to what is likely a new national record. → Read More
December Was Likely the Hottest on Record for the U.S.
The weather wasn't just wild, it was also incredibly hot across large parts of the Lower 48, leading to what is likely a new national record. → Read More
Why People Can't Stop Talking About 'Don't Look Up'
The top movie on Netflix has inspired, shall we say, impassioned responses. That's telling. → Read More
Life-Threatening Cold Grips the Northern Rockies and Midwest
Wind chills as low as minus-50 are forecast into Thursday, adding another layer of weather-induced suffering to December. → Read More
There Are 2 Americas This Christmas: 1 Weirdly Hot, 1 Covered in Snow
A heat wave sweeping much of the eastern U.S. means snow will be in short supply for Christmas and the New Year. → Read More
Coal Miners Union to Joe Manchin: Stop Sucking
The United Mine Workers of America put out a statement asking the West Virginia senator to reconsider killing the Build Back Better Act. → Read More