Climate change will worsen in 2022. But it won't be the end

This is the Dec. 30, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. The federal government vacillated between treating climate change as a minor inconvenience and as a hoax. Yes, Congress hasn’t been able to pass President Biden’s climate bill — and there’s plenty to criticize in the Biden administration’s climate performance thus far. It’s a reminder that the human tragedies wrought by climate change also have the potential to fuel geopolitical conflict. Reid grew up in a hardscrabble mining town called Searchlight, a few miles from the Colorado River but a world away from the lights of the Strip.