President Biden will tap senior adviser John Podesta to replace outgoing U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry once Kerry steps down this spring, the Washington Post reports.

“John F. Kerry, who has served as the U.S. special climate envoy for nearly three years, will leave the Biden administration by the spring,” the Washington Post reports.

2024 may be even hotter than the “gobsmackingly” hot 2023, which featured extreme — and often deadly — weather and climate events around the globe, Axios reports.

“For the past several years, a small group of scientists has warned that sometime early this century, the rate of global warming — which has remained largely steady for decades — might accelerate. Temperatures could rise higher, faster. The drumbeat of weather disasters may become more insistent,”

“More than 190 governments at the United Nations climate conference approved an agreement Wednesday calling for the world to transition away from fossil fuels, sending an unprecedented signal to the global economy that governments are intent on cutting back on coal, oil and natural gas in the fight