
Making sense of science, policy and politics
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This article was originally published at Forbes in 2020 during my short stint as a columnist there in 2019 and 2020. It might be difficult in 2026 for people to understand how vindictive and professionally punitive the climate debate was in...
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Here at THB, I often assemble complex and disparate pieces of information to tell a story that I believe is grounded in evidence and facts. It is rare that such complexity is verified in the short-term with a proverbial smoki...
What a journey it has been
This month THB turns 6. To say that the journey over the past six years has far exceeded my expectations would be an understatement.
The president meets the “Iron Law”
President Donald Trump has done something that decades of climate advocacy and international conferences have never achieved. Global carbon dioxide emissions look set to fall in 2026 by more than in any y...
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Yesterday’s New York Times featured an op-ed by David Wallace-Wells and Zeke Hausfather — a journalist and climate scientist respectively — both well-known for their commitments to climate advocacy.
Normally, yet-another-ap...
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