In what will probably be the warmest year in recorded history, in a month in which all but two U.S. states are in a drought, and on a day when yet another hurricane was forming in the Caribbean, ...

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Mr. Li is the director of the China Climate Hub at the Asia Society Policy Institute. President Xi Jinping of China has long taken pleasure in poking fun at the West’s short political attention span ...