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Zoya Teirstein is a contributing writer from Grist.org.

This GOES East satellite image taken Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, at 10:30 a.m. EDT, shows Hurricane Florence in the Atlantic Ocean as it threatens the U.S. East Coast. (NOAA via AP)

Is climate change showing up in the daily weather forecast? It’s complicated.

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Residents defend a property from a bushfire at Hillsville near Taree, 350km north of Sydney on November 12, 2019. - A state of emergency was declared on November 11 and residents in the Sydney area were warned of "catastrophic" fire danger as Australia prepared for a fresh wave of deadly bushfires that have ravaged the drought-stricken east of the country. (Photo by PETER PARKS / AFP) (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images) (Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images)

Australians call their prime minister an “idiot” for ignoring wildfire victims

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Julia Aylen wades through waist deep water carrying her pet dog as she is rescued from her flooded home during Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)

4 encouraging ways climate politics went mainstream in 2019

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This GOES-16 satellite image taken Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, at 17:20 UTC and provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows Hurricane Dorian, right, moving over open waters in the Atlantic Ocean. Forecasters are now saying Dorian could be a Category 4 with winds of nearly 140 mph (225 kph) when it is forecasted to hit Florida late Monday or early Tuesday. It’s also imperiling the Bahamas, where the storm is expected to hit by Sunday. (NOAA via AP) (AP)

Shrinking budgets, rising seas: How local newsrooms can cover climate change

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

GOP elites helped create climate skepticism. They can undo it, too.

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(AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Paris Agreement targets need to be 5 times stronger to actually work

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RFS Firefighters battle a spot fire on November 13, 2019 in Hillville, Australia. Catastrophic fire conditions - the highest possible level of bushfire danger - have eased across greater Sydney, Illawarra and Hunter areas thanks to a slight cool change, however dozens of bushfires are still burning. A state of emergency, as declared by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Monday, is still in effect, giving emergency powers to Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons and prohibiting fires across the state. (Sam Mooy/Getty Images)

Here’s why Australia is having a cataclysmic wildfire season

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(Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)

Here’s why Twitter’s political ad ban gives Big Oil a free pass

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(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Elizabeth Warren’s new climate plan uses wildfire wisdom from tribes

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(AP Photo/John Antczak)

Sea-level rise threatens 13 million Americans. Can FEMA help?

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Lawmakers applaud as US President Donald Trump puts the cap on his pen after signing House Joint Resolution 41, which removes some Dodd-Frank regulations on oil and gas companies, during a bill signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 14, 2017. / AFP / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

Science is in “crisis” under Trump, new reports show

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In this photo taken May 19, 2015, meat labels are seen at a grocery store in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (AP)

Is red meat bad for you? Climate change sure is.

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FILE - In this June 10, 2013 file photo, Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. speaks in Trenton, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File) (AP)

Moderate Democrats: Their answer to the Green New Deal

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FILE - In this April 17, 2015 file photo, with the Olympic Mountains in the background, a small boat crosses in front of an oil drilling rig as it arrives in Port Angeles, Wash. aboard a transport ship after traveling across the Pacific. Royal Dutch Shell hopes to use the rig for exploratory drilling during the summer open-water season in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast, if it can get the permits. (Daniella Beccaria/seattlepi.com via AP, File) (AP)

Reps debated drilling on federal land, and it got strange

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Tania (not her real name) washes clothes at a shelter in Mexicali where she stayed with her family for several weeks, first waiting to apply for asylum, and then waiting for a court hearing. A week after this photo was taken, she fainted in the heat and was hospitalized. (Anna Maria Barry-Jester/Kaiser Health News) (Anna Maria Barry-Jester/Kaiser Health News)

This was the hottest June in history, and summer is just getting started

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Democratic presidential hopefuls New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), former US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Washington Governor Jay Inslee and former Maryland Rep. John Delaney participate in the first Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season in Miami, Florida, June 26, 2019. (Getty/)

The first Democratic debate showcases the climate change candidates

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Julian Castro (Getty/Ethan Miller)

The presidential candidates just received their climate report cards

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(Carl Court/Getty Images)

What’s next for Big Oil? A carbon tax for them and a whole lotta concessions from us.

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Bernie Sanders; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Getty/AP/Salon)

The Sunrise Movement has a plan to force presidential candidates to address climate change

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Climate movement grandpa James Hansen says the Green New Deal is “nonsense”

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Cory Booker; Elizabeth Warren; Joe Biden; Kirsten Gillibrand; Bernie Sanders (AP/Getty/Salon)

Here’s where all the official Democratic presidential candidates stand on climate

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This map shows you what your city will feel like in 2080 and boy, are we in for a treat

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(Getty/RomoloTavani)

Trump calls for more global warming while Australia sizzles in record-breaking heatwave

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FILE - In this April 22, 2015, file photo, a male sage grouse struts in the early morning hours on a leak outside Baggs, Wyo. (Dan Cepeda/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP, File) (AP)

What the Trump administration doesn’t want you to know about this fancy bird

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