New politics will help us tackle climate change

The lignite (brown coal) power plant complex of German energy supplier and utility RWE is reflected in a large puddle in Neurath, northwest of Cologne, Germany, on February 5, 2020. [Reuters, Wolfgang Rattay]

Well-known scientist, James Hansen, testified before the United States Congress in 2017 that the planet had entered a long-term warming trend and that human-made greenhouse gases were almost certainly responsible.

Global warming, according to the United Nations, could kill 180 million people per year.