r/climatechange

168k members
r/climatechange is a subreddit with 168k members. The most common kinds of discussions are news and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses climate change, climate, renewable energy, energy, and global warming.
This is a place for the rational discussion of the science of climate change. If you want to post about politics or climate policy, try /r/ClimateNews or /r/climatepolicy.

Popular Themes in r/climatechange

#1
News
: "France unveils plan to phase out all fossil fuels by 2050, starting with coal by 2030, oil by 2045 and gas by 2050."
50 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "3,400 deaths in a day: India's extreme heat days are deadlier than we imagined"
2 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "Lidl launches 2.24 kWh balcony solar battery in Germany for €299, lets you store up daytime solar for the evening"
1 post
#4
Ideas
: "Putting a million solar panels 22,000 miles above Earth to collect continuous sunlight might sound like a good idea, until you remember that batteries exist. A Dollar-Store Dyson Sphere is an expensive, complicated solution in search of a problem."
1 post
#5
Money Talk
: "Plant-Based Mince Now 29% Cheaper Than Beef at Tesco as Meat Prices Climb"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/climatechange

#1

Climate Change

: "Hantavirus cases nearly doubled in Argentina in the past year. Experts say Climate Change is to blame"
144 posts
#2

Climate

: "Musk’s fossil data centres are undoing Tesla’s Climate benefit"
54 posts
#3

Renewable Energy

: "Renewable Energy just broke a 100-year-old streak: Coal’s century at the top of the world’s power mix is over."
39 posts
#4

Energy

: "For the first time, California discharged over 12,000 megawatts of Energy from its battery arrays, enough to meet 40% of the state’s Energy demand, equivalent to 12 large nuclear plants. It is transitioning quickly from using primarily natural gas to using batteries for the evening peak period"
23 posts
#5

Global Warming

: "Global Warming hit 1.37°C in 2025, with Earth accumulating heat at an accelerating rate - Global Climate Change report"
22 posts
#6

Renewables

: "EU imports of LNG have dropped by 1.2% since March and continue to decline, while LNG imports decreased by 20% in the UK. Only Germany, Italy, and Belgium increased LNG imports. Home grown Renewables and electrification are the keys to energy resilience and saving billions of euros."
20 posts
#7

Looking For

17 posts
#8

Solar

: "Lidl launches 2.24 kWh balcony Solar battery in Germany for €299, lets you store up daytime Solar for the evening"
15 posts
#9

Electric Vehicles

: "The world must move away from fossil cars towards Electric Vehicles and other forms of low-carbon transport. This transition has already started: Global sales of combustion engine cars are well past their 2017 peak and are now falling, as EV sales more than doubled from 2022 to 2025."
15 posts
#10

Solar Power

: "Solar to overtake coal on Texas grid for the first time ever this year"
13 posts

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Yearly
+31k members(22.3%)

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Last updated: June 15, 2026