Impacts fivethirtyeight.com How to understand natural disasters in a climate change age How are we supposed to know which disasters are fated because of the stars, and which are fated because of 100 years of global CO2 emissions?
Politics fivethirtyeight.com Who won the debate among voters who prioritize electability? Health care? Climate change? Part of the difficulty of picking winners and losers in a debate is that each voter brings a different rubric to the task.
Solutions fivethirtyeight.com We don’t really know how stressed Americans are about climate Climate change can end up affecting mental health even if the weather you're experiencing doesn't register as a natural disaster.
Causes fivethirtyeight.com Why good politics and good climate science don’t mix As the U.S. confronts what to do about climate change, human psychology leaves climate-conscious politicians in a tough spot.
Politics fivethirtyeight.com The Green New Deal is impractical, but ‘practical’ solutions haven’t worked either Fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions are tangled into every part of our economy and our lives. If we reduce our dependence on them, we're likely to end up changing parts of society we didn't expect.
Impacts fivethirtyeight.com How much is the government spending on climate change? We don’t know, and neither do they America's problems with solving our climate crisis predate President Trump and go deeper than petty snark.
Politics fivethirtyeight.com Americans were a lot less worried about climate change before Trump took office As the science editor for The Atlantic, Ross Andersen struggled for years to find stories about climate change that readers would pay attention to.
