ABSTRACT
Aggravated by human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels, climate change is caused by heat from the sun that warms the earth and then is trapped in the earth’s atmosphere by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, as well as agriculture practices, industrial processes and clearcutting of forests. Poor people living in drought-prone regions and in large mega deltas will be made especially vulnerable by climate change. Continuous waving of the climate-change red flag by The New York Times is truly a formidable public service. The Times frequently published enterprise climate-change stories during the pandemic and recession of 2020. The Wall Street Journal gives frequent attention to climate change, often in its Opinion pages.
