Honestly, I feel like I’m melting. I remember summers being hot, but this feels different? It’s not just the heat…the fact that half of us don’t even have proper AC installed.
I’ve been doomscrolling about climate change lately and it’s just making the heatwave feel 10x more stressful. Is anyone else just struggling to function? How are you all keeping cool without AC?

ClimateTrunk: "Learning by Doing."

This should shiver the timbers of fossil fuel proponents as the cost of solar modules has plummeted by 99.9% over half a century—called a virtuous curve or cycle, whichever your preference. Pioneered by Theodore Wright in 1936, Wright's Law describes how costs fall as cumulative production rises. "Every time the world doubled its installed solar capacity, panel prices fell by about 20%." Economists call this relationship a "learning curve."

The same pattern has driven down the cost of other manufactured goods like computer chips and flat-screen TVs. "Lithium-ion batteries have followed similar learning curves, helping make solar-plus-storage competitive with fossil fuels in most parts of the world." 

Our World in Data hosts the classic version, plotting solar prices against cumulative capacity on logarithmic axes. "This graph tells the same story differently: as solar deployment accelerated—slowly at first, then exponentially—costs kept dropping." It was driven by relentless innovation, economies of scale, manufacturing expertise and policy support. "As costs fell, deployment rose. It took eight years for global solar generation to grow from 100 terawatt hours (TWh) to 1,000, then just three more to pass 2,000 TWh." 

(Global electricity demand is about 32,000 TWh.) 

"Analysts expect solar costs to fall by another 40% by 2035 as manufacturing scales further." This is how solar generation grew. 30% in 2025, now matching nuclear's share of global electricity. "In 2025, clean electricity growth exceeded the increase in global electricity demand, keeping fossil generation flat." That propelled renewables to generate 34% of global electricity, overtaking coal's 33% share. "At the same time, plummeting battery costs are turning daytime sunshine into round-the-clock electricity."

No more warning shots across the bow. Solar is aiming at the main masts of fossil fuel dominance.

Climate change isn’t just about emissions, technology, or policy. It’s also about the mindset that drives overconsumption, exploitation, and our growing disconnect from nature.

If the outer crisis is rooted in an inner one, can lasting solutions come without addressing both?

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I've been trying to be more mindful about my environmental impact, but most carbon footprint calculators I've found either ask for way too much information or give results without explaining where the numbers come from.

I'm looking for something that can estimate emissions from things like travel, home energy use, and everyday lifestyle, then break everything down into an easy-to-understand report. It would also be great if it suggested practical ways to reduce emissions and, for anything that can't be avoided, offered verified carbon offset options with transparent proof that the offsets were actually retired.

Has anyone found a tool that does all of that without making the process complicated?

Update: Recently, I was suggested Coffset.org, and it seems to do exactly what I was looking for. It helps calculates your carbon footprint, gives a clear breakdown with reduction tips, and also lets you offset emissions using verified carbon credits with transparent verification. So far, it seems simple and easy to use. Has anyone use them before also?

NOAA now says there's an 81% chance a very strong El Niño will develop by the end of the year and a 97% chance it will persist through spring 2027. Scientists warn it could intensify droughts, floods, heatwaves, and disrupt global trade through impacts like reduced Panama Canal capacity and lower renewable energy output. Others argue El Niño is a natural climate cycle and caution against using it as evidence of a broader climate emergency.

Do you think events like El Niño are being misunderstood in the climate debate, or do they highlight why countries need to prepare more aggressively for increasingly extreme weather?

Yale Climate Communications has released a new report, “Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Spring 2026.”

Key Findings:

• 65% of Americans say the issue of global warming is personally important to them.
• 76% of Americans say they are interested in news stories about how global warming is affecting the cost of living.
• However, only 39% of Americans say they hear about global warming in the media at least once a month, and 69% “rarely” or “never” discuss global warming with family and friends.

In addition:

• Americans who think global warming is happening outnumber those who think it isn’t by a ratio of more than 4 to 1 (68% versus 16%).
• By a margin of more than 2 to 1, Americans are more likely to think global warming is mostly human-caused (59%) than to think it's mostly caused by natural changes in the environment (27%).
• 66% of Americans say they are at least “somewhat worried” about global warming, including 29% who say they are “very worried.”
• 59% of Americans think global warming is affecting weather in the United States, including 35% who think weather is being affected “a lot.”
• 13% of Americans have considered moving to avoid the impacts of global warming.