Global warming is deepening blankets of warmer water that alter ocean currents, hinder absorption of carbon, intensify storms and disrupt biological cycles.
While conservative Christians remain staunch supporters of the president, the climate consciousness of Generation Z could bring a political shift in the long-term.
"At a time when wildfires are burning down an entire coast, it's absolutely unconscionable for the media to dismiss climate change as a topic in the first presidential debate."
Wildfires rage in the West. Hurricanes batter the East. Droughts and floods wreak damage throughout the nation. Life has become increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, but if the people there move, where will everyone go?
Six major projects to extract resources are in the initial stages, over the protest of Indigenous peoples. But so far, the damage has been mostly symbolic.
Trump’s policy is to fight market forces with the subtle subsidy of not making oil and gas companies clean up after themselves. That stinks up the economy and the environment.
