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Changed? i think at the guardian you have taken the decision to use the term climate crisis, for example. that is an evolution in language. that is hugely important. when i started 18 years ago writing about climate change and global warming, global warming sounds lovely. if you ask someone if they would like a bit of global warming, they say, oh, yes please. climate change sounds nice and gentle, like something gradual. what we know is that when the climate changes, it does so abruptly, whether...

Climate—related storms, droughts and floods are already wreaking in their communities. the deal on loss and damage is undoubtedly a breakthrough, but there is huge disappointment in this room — disappointment that the rest of the text is not more ambitious. leaders of delegations met to discuss how they could change the wording to increase the effort to cut emissions. the aim of these summits is to raise ambition every year, but todays deal dials back on what was agreed last year in glasgow....

Clearly, this will not be enough, but it is a much needed political signal to rebuild broken trust. the voices of those on the front lines of the climate crisis must be heard. hurricane ian tears through cuba earlier this year. todays deal creates a fund to help vulnerable nations cope with the loss and damage climate related storms, droughts and floods are already wreaking in their communities. the deal on loss and damage is undoubtedly a breakthrough, but there is huge disappointment in this r...

A ripple of applause. but this is a landmark deal on an issue that has dogged these talks for decades. clearly, this will not be enough, but it is a much needed political signal to rebuild broken trust. the voices of those on the front lines of the climate crisis must be heard. hurricane ian tears through cuba earlier this year. todays deal creates a fund to help vulnerable nations cope with the loss and damage climate related storms, droughts and floods are already wreaking in their communities...

Over your time reporting, do you think the language has changed? i think at the guardian you have taken the decision to use the term climate crisis, for example. that is an evolution in language. that is hugely important. when i started 18 years ago. writing about climate change and global warming, global warming sounds lovely. - if you ask someone if they would like a bit of global. warming, they say, oh, yes please. - climate change sounds nice and gentle, like something gradual. what we know ...

An example of how this past summer's drought is still affecting us into the holiday season from Clinton, New Jersey.

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To use the term climate crisis, for example. thats an evolution in language. oh, thats hugely important. when i started 18 years ago, we were writing about climate change and global warming. global warming sounds lovely, everyone, you know, if you ask someone if theyd like a bit of global warming, theyd say, oh, yes, please. climate change songs nice and gentle. it sounds like something gradual. what we know is that when the climate changes, it does so abruptly, it goes to extremes. and what wer...

Share the same air and water and love our national heirlooms that i write about in the book, like the north cascades in washington. these are our taj mahals, these are our westminster abbeys, it should bring us american pride that we have a new beautification movement and start taking the climate of science seriously and find ways to do mitigation efforts to end these epic wildfires in california or these mega floods in the midwest or droughts or hurricanes like ivan. >> doug brinkley, i wish we...

Megastorm floods in California could be the answer to the prolonged droughts in the state. Megastorm floods in California might be the solution to the state's protracted droughts.