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We are at an interesting moment when it comes to climate change. Encouraging developments — the plunging cost of renewable energy, for example, and slower emissions growth — sit alongside a U.S. president who has called climate change a hoax. On top of this, deadly heat and other extreme weather situations are striking more often. Somini Sengupta writes about all of this, as well as about how people are coping with life on a hotter Earth. If you have questions for Somini about climate politics, the state of the climate or what it’s like to cover global warming when the world is preoccupied with many other crises, fill out the form below.