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The Years Project We are the storytellers of the climate crisis: sharing what’s real, what’s urgent, and what’s possible.
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OUR VISION: A world where fighting climate change is the top political, economic and social issue.

10/15/2026

The world we're leaving our kids is far more scary and dangerous. Is this what we want our legacy to be?

10/13/2026

Climate change is driving year-round wildfire seasons, causing insurers to raise premiums, drop coverage or pull out of states altogether. If this keeps up, we’ll have a housing crisis worse than 2008.

1️⃣ YOUR HOME COULD BE AT RISK
Climate change is bringing extreme weather to places that have never had it before. Even if you don’t live in a traditionally fire-prone area, tens of millions of homes across the U.S. are increasingly exposed to wildfire destruction.

2️⃣ YOUR INSURANCE COULD DISAPPEAR OR BECOME UNAFFORDABLE
Because of this, insurance companies are raising rates and leaving high-risk regions, which means your coverage could suddenly become too expensive … or unavailable.

3️⃣ YOU COULD BE LOCKED OUT OF THE HOUSING MARKET
If homes can’t be insured, you may not be able to buy a house, sell your current one or secure a mortgage. And if you never owned a house, buying one is even further out of reach.

4️⃣ YOUR BIGGEST ASSET COULD LOSE ITS VALUE
Without insurance, homes can become essentially worthless, putting your financial stability and long-term wealth at risk.

5️⃣ YOUR COMMUNITY COULD BECOME UNLIVABLE
As risk increases and protection disappears, entire regions could become too dangerous or unstable to live in.

6️⃣ YOUR FINANCIAL SECURITY COULD BE HIT BY A RECESSION
If housing markets collapse and people are displaced, the economic fallout will spread nationwide and would spare no one.

10/08/2026

Wildfires are impacting the decisions insurance companies make. Eventually those decisions will affect you, whether you own a home or rent.

10/06/2026

There’s a disaster brewing right under our feet, but hardly anyone is talking about it. We’re running out of drinking water, and climate change and this year's Super El Niño is making it worse. Check out the details here.

10/01/2026

A system in our Atlantic ocean has been silently regulating our global temperatures, keeping the planet temperate. It’s called the AMOC, which stands for Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. But scientists recently discovered an anomaly in the North Atlantic that they call the “Cold Blob” and it could be a sign of terrible things to come.

Even though oceans around the world are warming, an area south of Greenland is cooling. That’s a problem because it shows the AMOC isn’t pulling cold water south the way it’s supposed to. For scientists, that’s a terrifying alarm bell.

What's causing the “Cold Blob” — and why should we care?

🧊 Ice sheets, especially like the one on Greenland, are melting at a rate of 12% per decade.
🧊 As ice sheets melt, they not only raise sea levels, but also “freshen” salty water, making it less dense and weakening AMOC’s pull.

🔥 Sea surface temperatures have been increasing 4.5 times faster than in the late 20th century.
🔥 Warming waters slow AMOC, and monsoon patterns become more irregular, leading to disrupted rainfall, droughts and agricultural loss.

If this continues, the “Cold Blob” will no longer be an anomaly but will instead become the norm.

So, what would happen then?

❄️ If the AMOC's weakening becomes a collapse, Europe would experience climate change up to 10x faster than today.
❄️ With tropical waters no longer being pulled north, Europe would experience harsher winters, major flood risks and shorter growing seasons.

🌴 A weakened AMOC is already causing major drought problems in the tropics of the Americas, Asia and Africa, threatening food and water access for over 2 billion people.
🌴 If the AMOC further weakens, the resulting drought could completely destroy the Amazon Rainforest, speeding up climate change even more.

🌎 What happens in the North Atlantic doesn't stay in the North Atlantic.
🌎 A weakening AMOC is linked to weather patterns being disrupted across much of the planet. Storms staying in place longer, longer-lasting heat domes and temperature extremes can all be tied to a weakening AMOC.
🌎 None of this is natural. The main driver is global warming, which is caused by burning fossil fuels.

09/29/2026

The AMOC is slowing down and it could take the entire global weather system along with it. This little understood ocean current controls the push-and-pull of water currents from north to south, ensuring heat is properly dispersed across the globe. But if the system slows down, our planet could be in big trouble.

09/28/2026

ENERGY ENEMIES
When data centers connect to the grid, they suck out a TON of energy.

It’s one of just many problems with data centers but one of the biggest. All that energy use is leading to Americans having to pay higher energy bills.

⚡ A single modern AI data center can use as much power as 100,000 homes.
⚡ Electricity bills have jumped 267% over the past five years in areas where centers are highly concentrated.
⚡ And the problem could get far worse. By 2030, data center infrastructure buildout may total $1.4 trillion.

HOPE IN HOMES
However, all is not lost. There’s a simple high-tech solution that could help alleviate some of the pain. It could be as simple as forcing data centers to modernize our homes.

But how would that work?

🏠 Homes account for nearly half of all national electricity demand
🏠 That’s because our homes are totally outdated. Our old appliances and heating/cooling systems are using excess energy 24/7, energy that could be used on the rest of the grid.
🏠 ALL the new electricity data centers need, 93 gigawatts, could come from upgrading homes with smart appliances, including heat pumps, solar panels, and home batteries.
🏠 Data centers often propose building new gas plants to power themselves, but those can take several years to bring online, only to pollute our air and increase our energy bills.
🏠 But if we were to upgrade our homes, tons of new power could come online in just months … not years … pollution-free.

MONEY UP, EMISSIONS DOWN
But the goal isn’t just to help data centers get the energy they need. The goal is for Americans to save massive amounts of money and live more comfortable lives.

💸 With the proper policies in place, data centers would pay for the upfront cost of upgrading to modern appliances.
💸 Every household would save an average of $26,000 over the lifetime of the appliances.
💸 Nationwide, that’s $1.5 trillion of savings.
💸 Modernizing and fully electrifying our homes could create over 1 million community-based jobs all across the nation.

Several states are already pursuing legislation to get data centers to pay to upgrade homes in their states – and save people money.

Data centers should be footing the bill, not you.

09/25/2026

The intense storms, fires and flooding we are experiencing today doesn't have to be our tomorrow. We can make better choices for how we power our world and live our lives. Let's start now.

09/24/2026

The fossil fuel industry wants you to think everything is fine. But is it?

09/23/2026

Climate change is causing chaos all around us, but the future isn’t set.

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