The devastation caused by Hurricane Helene has brought climate change to the forefront of the presidential campaign for the first time.

Just weeks before he goes before voters seeking re-election, U.S. Sen. Rick Scott edged away from a long-held stance minimizing climate change.

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene has brought climate change to the forefront of the presidential campaigns

CBS News moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan pegged their question to Helene and pointed to research showing that climate change makes hurricanes “larger, stronger, and more deadly,” as well as polling showing that 7 in 10 Americans favor taking steps to address climate change.

Nations will press forward without the United States if they must, according to climate negotiators who gathered in New York last week during the United Nations General Assembly. But the first Trump presidency was a setback in the climate fight, and a repeat would slow things down at a critical point when scientists say efforts need to speed up.

Hurricane Helene has destroyed parts of inland cities in the eastern U.S. Now will climate change be an issue in the presidential campaign?

After a decade of failed attempts to charge polluters for emitting carbon dioxide, Washington state’s landmark cap-and-trade program finally started up last year, raising billions of dollars for electric school buses,

Counties in western North Carolina and eastern Georgia were hit particularly hard, and are largely Republican. The devastation there has the potential to blunt turnout for former President Donald Trump, who in 2020 notched wins in the North Carolina and Georgia counties with disaster declarations post-Helene.

Vance dismissed climate change as " weird science ," skeptically characterizing the scientific consensus about burning fossil fuels as "this idea that carbon emissions drive all the climate change." Top climate scientists were unimpressed with Vance's posturing.

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) expressed skepticism about the scientific consensus behind climate change in response to a question during Tuesday’s debate. “One

Hurricane Helene’s devastation is shining a spotlight on former President Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance’s (R-Ohio) skepticism of well-established climate science. Trump this week claimed that the planet has “actually gotten a little bit cooler lately.

A reader implores voters to cast ballots against the climate deniers on the 2024 ballot, starting with Donald Trump and Rick Scott.