A warming planet, the energy transition, and the choices that come next. This section covers climate as a subject with settled physics and genuinely contested policy, and tries to keep the two clearly apart. The greenhouse effect is well understood; what a country should do about it involves trade-offs that reasonable people weigh differently.
Coverage spans the technical and the commercial — how solar panels turn sunlight into electricity, what a carbon offset actually represents and why the market for them draws sustained criticism. Where a mechanism is doing less than its marketing implies, we say so plainly and show the reasoning rather than simply assigning blame.
El Niño is a periodic warming of the tropical Pacific that shifts rainfall and storm tracks worldwide. It is natural, irregular, and distinct from climate change.
How a thin blanket of gases keeps Earth warm enough to live on — and why adding more of them is changing the climate.
Inside the photovoltaic effect: how a slab of treated silicon converts light into usable electric current, with no moving parts.
Buying a credit to cancel out emissions sounds simple — but the value of an offset depends on claims that are hard to verify.
