Mark Gongloff, Columnist

Biden’s Win Makes Climate Catastrophe a Little Less Likely

And he won’t even need to convince Republicans to help.

Joe Biden arrives to speak outside the Delaware Museum of Natural History in Wilmington, Delaware.

Photographer: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images

Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a climate-change plan of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here.

An uncontrolled pandemic and an uncontrolled president have temporarily pushed our third existential crisis — uncontrolled global warming — into the background. But a vaccine is coming soonish, as is the day President Donald Trump leaves office. The climate emergency, however, isn’t going anywhere. In fact, it will keep getting worse.