Seth Borenstein

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Was U.S. tornado cluster related to climate change?

The calendar said December but the warm moist air screamed of springtime. Add an eastbound storm front guided by a La Nina weather pattern into that mismatch and it spawned tornadoes that killed dozens over five U.S. states.

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John Kerry, second right, walks with, from left, Joaquim Alvaro Pereira Leite, Frans Timmermans and Xie Zhenhua before the closing plenary session at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Climate experts hoped for better from climate pact

While world leaders and negotiators are hailing the Glasgow climate pact as a good compromise that keeps a key temperature limit alive, many scientists are wondering what planet these leaders are looking at.

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Patricia Espinosa, UNFCCC Executive-Secretary speaks during the Procedural Opening of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Alberto Pezzali, Pool

COP26 "compromise" better than no deal, says UN climate secretary

The international climate agreement did not achieve three key U.N. goals

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China's Special Envoy for Climate Change Xie Zhenhua takes a question at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, in Glasgow, Scotland, on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. Photo by The Associated Press/Alastair Grant

China and U.S. promise greater climate co-operation at COP26 talks

The world's top two carbon polluters, China and the United States, pledged on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, to increase their cooperation on climate action in a joint declaration issued at U.N. climate talks in Glasgow.

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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, prepares for a group photo inside the venue of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)

Climate talks president says there is little time left to reach a deal

The United Nations climate summit in Glasgow has made “some serious toddler steps” toward cutting emissions but far from the giant leaps needed to limit global warming to internationally accepted goals, two new analyses and top officials said on Tuesday, November 9, 2021.

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Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. Photo by The Associated Press/Alberto Pezzali

Obama blames Russia and China for lagging on climate policy

Barack Obama expressed confidence at U.N. climate talks Monday that the Biden administration will ultimately get its $555 billion climate package through Congress, and faulted U.S. rivals China and Russia for what he called a “dangerous lack of urgency” in cutting their own climate-wrecking emissions.

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