Climate Change Has Dangerously Supercharged Fires, Hurricanes, Floods and Heat Waves. Why Didn’t It Come Up More in the Presidential Campaign?

By Kiley Bense, Georgina Gustin, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna

Though the stakes could hardly be higher for a planet increasingly imperiled by global warming, the topic surfaced only occasionally in the run-up to the presidential election, puzzling analysts who said that climate change is a key issue for voters that Vice President Kamala Harris needed to court.