Global Warming: Political Aspects

The line city. Publicity photo

The Failure of the “Line” in NEOM (Saudi Arabia): Why the “15-Minute City” Stuck at the Limits of Physics and Nature

The Financial Times investigation shows how the Saudi vision for a 193-kilometer-long city of mirrors has clashed with enormous costs, engineering challenges and ecological constraints in the era of the climate crisis.
A mineral-rich area in eastern Greenland. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Trump returns to talk about “controlling Greenland” – but Greenland’s minerals remain mostly under the ice

Despite Washington's talk of acquisition and "national security," environmental regulation, legal uncertainty, and extreme conditions in the Arctic make mining and drilling difficult—and the ice sheet continues to melt.
The world in 2050. Illustration: Avi Blizovsky via DALEE.

The journal "Nature" looks to 2050: Nuclear fusion, Mars, and "lightless" laboratories – and it all depends on politics

The prestigious journal marks the decisive junctures: the climate crisis and the response to it, the race for artificial intelligence infrastructure, questions of public trust and science funding, and the ability to transform breakthroughs into systems that work at scale.
PFAS chemicals ("persistent chemicals") have been found to be contaminants in the Cape Fear River, which supplies water to two million residents in North Carolina. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The Environmental Protection Agency's retreat from science endangers public health and the planet

The Trump administration has begun dismantling the EPA's research arm – a move that threatens decades of progress in preventing pollution and protecting public health around the world.
The Earth is burning, but climate crisis denial is at its peak. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Anti-environmentalism on the rise but full of contradictions

Despite the great public popularity of environmental protection, populist politicians adopt hostile positions towards green goals – contrary to conservative tradition and the reality outside the window
Massive destruction in the first 100 days of the second Trump administration. Image prepared using ideogram.ai

Trump's first 100 days of total environmental destruction and damage to generations

From announcements of green technologies to the repeal of regulations and the firing of scientists – moves that undermine the foundations of environmental and public health protection. Inside Climate News investigation
On Trump, science, and climate change denial. Image prepared using ideogram.ai

Trump Administration Attacks on Climate Scientists (2025)

Budget cuts, censorship and layoffs – the Trump administration's steps against climate research, investigation.
Trump's election could exacerbate the climate crisis. Illustration: Avi Blizovsky via FLUX

 The effect of Donald Trump's re-election on the fight against the climate crisis

Upon his return to the White House, he appointed climate change denier Lee Zeldin to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indicating his intentions to continue the climate crisis denial policies he implemented in his first term
Contrast between the environmental agendas of Trump and Harris. Credit: Avi Blizovsky

The deep differences between the environmental agendas of Trump and Harris

The American political system is facing a crucial choice regarding the future of the climate and the environment, when the global consequences of the American decisions may lead to far-reaching changes in the world climate
The differences between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in the fields of science. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Science summarized Trump's position against Harris' position on scientific issues. Trump wants to damage basic science as well, Harris - to his predecessor

Ahead of the presidential elections, Science magazine examined the differences between the positions of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on science and environmental issues
Drone photo of a disintegrating glacier. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Earth Day: The climate crisis is happening and man is causing it

The climate crisis is a hot topic - with myths and lies circulating widely. The UN website has compiled essential facts that will help deal with misinformation and disinformation and build support for urgent action
The climate crisis: if we are all to blame - then none of us is to blame. Image: depositphotos.com

The real soul-searching we need

Opinion: Yom Kippur is an opportunity to take stock of our vulnerability to the environment. We must prioritize our well-being over more and more profits, and start the social change that will lead us away from a culture of "use and throw away"
Climate demonstration in Vancouver, Canada, September 2019. The sign mocks the then US President Donald Trump for his ignorance in the fields of science in general and the environment in particular. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The oil tycoons' attack on democracy: promoted the rise of authoritarianism around the world and worsened the climate crisis

A new book by American researcher Eve Darian Smith describes how around the world, many countries are becoming less democratic. This retreat in democracy and "creeping authoritarianism," as the US State Department put it, is supported
US President Joe Biden at the COP26 climate conference held in Glasgow at the end of 2021. Photo: cop26

2021 a year of action to curb the climate crisis or blah-blah-blah?

Will decisions and statements made in the past year moderate the disaster? Below is a summary full of skepticism
Protesters wear masks of leaders blamed for the climate crisis as banned for it in Glasgow, Scotland during the COP26 conference. Photo: shutterstock

Five things to know about the Glasgow Climate Agreement

The agreement signed in Glasgow was weak. And still companies and countries can cheat in the carbon market. However, there is a chance for some improvements next year in Egypt, and public pressure is needed to prevent investments from the energy companies
The symbol of the climate conference in Glasgow. Illustration: shutterstock

The climate conference in Glasgow COP26 has reached the halfway point, what are the achievements and which country missed the point?

If the promises of the participants in the Glasgow conference come true, the atmosphere will warm another 1.9 degrees, much more than the original goal, but even that is doubtful, because there are still leaders who do not understand the meaning of the crisis
COP26 - Climate Conference in Glasgow 2021. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Glasgow conference: the cost of inaction is a thousand times greater than any activity against the climate crisis

How economists have underestimated the benefits of action to prevent the climate crisis for decades * The economy does not have the tools to handle economies in transition and has missed the economic viability of transitioning to clean energy
Oil and the big money because of it they prevented any action and denied the warming even though they knew about it and assessed its damages. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The oil industry was aware of the risks of climate change as early as 1959 but preferred to hide it

A researcher went through the archives of the major oil companies and the oil institute and discovered amazing documents that revealed exactly what the oil companies knew. The predictions turned out to be accurate. They even predicted phenomena such as the flooding of countries
Joe Biden, the elected president of the USA. Photo: depositphotos.com

Summary of 2020 in the environment: not only Corona

Following the Corona virus, we were destined to face new challenges that had a great impact on the person and the environment: instead of personal meetings, we switched to meetings on Zoom and other online platforms, we traveled the country and avoided social gatherings
Explanation of the damage in oil shale production. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Minister Gamaliel promises that Israel will align with the rest of the world and reach zero emissions. On the disconnect between the government's promises and their implementation

The Minister of Environmental Protection and representatives from the Ministries of Transportation and Energy spoke at a session on "From the Corona Crisis to the Climate Crisis" at the Eli Horvitz Conference * However, a check on the "Shakoff" website shows that there is no connection between the ministers' words,
The green future: using bicycles. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The forecast: a more severe economic crisis than expected

Prof. William Nordhaus, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2018. Nordhaus was the first to create a quantitative model that describes the interrelationship between climate and the economy, and he tries to estimate in his works the expected economic price
When Trump talked about coal and oil, Biden talked about wind, water and solar. Figure: Angle

It's the climate, moron

The reality created by the climate crisis has far-reaching consequences for the individual soldier and his ability to function. Photo: Maxim Potkin – Unsplash

How do you fight 50 degree heat?

A protester near the European Union offices in Brussels, 27/6/2020. A green demonstration in the shadow of the corona. Photo: shutterstock

Three thoughts on climate change - in the light of the corona virus

Cardiff, UK, July 2019: A sign reading 'Climate Emergency' displayed during an anti-climate change demonstration organized by the Extinction Rebellion movement. Photo: shutterstock.com

Why is climate change still not at the top of the news agenda?

Climate March 2017, the end point in front of the US Embassy. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Will the politicians take action and try to save the planet from climate change?

The breakup of the ice cover in the Jarlache Strait near Antarctica. Photo: shutterstock

Typical weather for the future

A thermometer in the Netherlands shows a temperature of 40 degrees Celsius, July 2019. Photo: shutterstock

July 2019 was the hottest month on record

The characters of the heroes of the Marvel comics - Iron Man and Spiderman in Bangkok. Photo: shutterstock.com

Iron Man's new enemy

Christina Figueres at the UN Climate Conference in Paris, 2015. Photo: UNFCCC

The representative of future generations

Snow in Washington, 14/1/2019. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Weather is not climate

Protesters near the hall where the 24th climate conference was held in Katowice, Poland, December 8, 2018. Photo: shutterstock.com

Will salvation come from Poland?

A demonstration near the climate change conference in Bonn, November 9, 2017. Photo: Jörg Farys / BUND.

The climate change conference in Bonn: is there progress?

NASA forecast for regional temperatures around the globe in 2100. Source: NASA.

Don't look for evidence against global warming in scientists' emails

Photo: Dion Tavenier.

Traffic congestion in the North Pole

Are you cold in winter? This does not mean that there is no climate change. Source: pixabay.com

Are you cold in winter? This does not mean that there is no climate change

flock of birds Source: Wikimedia / Baykedevries.

Where do the ducks fly when the lake warms up?