Robinson Meyer
A New Way of Thinking About Climate Change
Introducing Atlantic Planet
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Jeff Swensen/Getty Carbon Tax, Beloved Policy to Fix Climate Change, Is Dead at 47
It reshaped how the world thought about climate change. But its prized trait—bloodless economic efficiency—won it few friends on the right or left.
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Kyle Wolfe / Getty The Green New Deal Does Not, Strictly Speaking, Exist
The idea has reshaped global climate policy, but is far less concrete than its supporters have been led to believe.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Energy Revolution Is Tweaking OPEC Out
Oil-producing countries are starting to prepare for a peak in oil demand. That isn’t necessarily good news for the planet.
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Nathan Howard / Getty Nowhere Is Ready for This Heat
The Pacific Northwest is melting now, but all across America the infrastructure we have was built for the wrong century.
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Anton Petrus / Getty A Major New Index Fund Should Unnerve Climate-Skeptical CEOs
The hedge fund that staged a revolt at Exxon last month is now recruiting an army of mom-and-pop investors for future battles.
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Getty; The Atlantic How the U.S. Made Progress on Climate Change Without Ever Passing a Bill
A “green vortex” is saving America’s climate future.
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Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group / … Why America Doesn’t Really Make Solar Panels Anymore
America invented silicon solar cells in the 1950s. It spent more on solar R&D than any other country in the 1980s. It lost its technological advantage anyway.
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Jim Young / Reuters Wall Street’s Skirmish With Exxon Is ‘Monumental’
Why a hedge fund’s successful assault on ExxonMobil matters
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Courtesy of Ford Stop Worrying and Love the F-150 Lightning
Here are seven ways Ford’s first electric pickup truck signals that decarbonization has entered a new era.
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Frances M. Ginter / Hulton / Getty 2050 Is Closer Than 1990
A pair of new studies on sea-level rise show that a crucial climate clock is ticking now.
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Getty / The Atlantic Why Ford’s New Electric Car Is So Important
I spent a weekend in the Mustang Mach-E, Ford’s biggest bet so far on a zero-carbon future.
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Education Images / Universal Images Group / Getty Greenland’s Rare-Earth Election
A vote last month answered an important question about the world’s largest island.
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Joe Sohm / Visions of America / Universal … Why Dead Trees Are ‘the Hottest Commodity on the Planet’
Blame climate change, wildfires, hungry beetles … and Millennial home buyers.
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The Atlantic / Getty The Weekly Planet: An Outdated Idea Is Still Shaping Climate Policy
Biden’s team is split on how to think about climate change.
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Jim Wilson / The New York Times / … The Weekly Planet: The 1 Thing to Understand About Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
This is the only climate bill coming. Also: Why methane levels surged last year.
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VCG / Getty The Weekly Planet: 3 Ways That Biden Could Green the Financial System
“If it actually looks seriously like the world is gonna cut carbon emissions in half by 2030, you could, overnight, see fire sales of fossil-fuel assets.”
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Grimes The Weekly Planet: Why Celebrities Are Agog Over This Tiny Climate Think Tank
A one-of-a-kind Washington nonprofit has become a hit with musicians selling crypto-art.
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Matthew Staver / The New York Times / … The Weekly Planet: Why a Climate-Denial Coalition May Be Cracking Apart
And the world’s largest polluter plans its next five years.
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NIAID / The Atlantic Why the Pandemic Experts Failed
We’re still thinking about pandemic data in the wrong ways.
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Constantine Manos / Magnum The Weekly Planet: Biden’s Stimulus Is a Big Deal for Public Transit
Why the rescue bill is (sort of) a climate bill
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