NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO • September 11, 2024
When moderators at the presidential debate asked the candidates about plans to fight climate change, Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted a problem quietly accelerating across the country: homeowners are losing their insurance. Harris said the costs of inaction on global warming are already having an impact: homeowners nationwide face soaring insurance costs — or the loss of coverage altogether — as extreme weather like storms and wildfires becomes more extreme. Climate change is “very real,” Harris said. Trump didn’t say at the debate what, if anything, he would do to limit global warming. The former president for years has cast doubt on the scientific consensus that the Earth is getting hotter mainly because of burning fossil fuels. Trump’s campaign has said he would try to boost fossil fuel production in a second term.