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Introducing Ask NYT Climate, where we’ll explore how climate intersects with your everyday life.
I’m the new editor of the Climate Forward newsletter.
Are traffic circles better for the environment than four-way stops? Will the oceans be too hot for fish to survive? Is green hydrogen a thing?
Over the past few years, we here at the Climate desk have received hundreds of smart, often highly specific, questions from our readers about what they can do in their daily lives to affect climate change. To answer some of these questions, this week we’ve launched “Ask NYT Climate,” which is dedicated to exploring how climate intersects with your life.
Our first edition is about the perhaps counterintuitive idea that buying stuff online can actually be better for the planet than driving to a store. And if you’ve got a question you want us to answer, send it via the form at the bottom of this page.
To get a sense of how the biggest issues in the climate world intertwine with our lives, I also turned to our reporters and asked them two things: “What’s the most common question you hear from readers?” and “What are the biggest questions your sources are trying to answer right now?”
“When I tell people I write about science and the natural world, the questions, I think, kind of stop,” said Raymond Zhong. He was only half-joking.
He writes about what climate scientists are thinking and researching. But on the core issues of climate change, he pointed out, the science is largely settled.
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