The president needs to hit the ground running on climate

The first 100 days of the presidency could help determine the state of our planet’s climate for the next 10,000 years. The president will have to win over potential allies in the middle, yet remain unafraid to play hardball with the Congresspeople who are captured by the fossil fuel industry.

This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Michael Mann, "The president needs to hit the ground running on climate," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 26 January 2021, DOI: 10.1080/00963402.2020.1860325. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.