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Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2025, 11:06 pm
Subject: Cartoons: Welp, that was a year!
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A newsletter by guest Tom Toro.
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Dear reader, 

Looking back at 2025, I need to squint pretty hard to see any good news about climate change. I'm squinting so hard I've got crows' feet.

But what's bad news for society is good news for satirists. This past year has been a smorgasbord of political absurdity and environmental crisis, from the LA fires to the U.S. boycotting the U.N. climate conference, and I've tried my best to sketch it all down for the Yale Climate Connections newsletter. The cartoonist's job is to bear witness with wit, to bring mirth to madness. Here are my favorite cartoons from 2025 that I hope hit the mark. Squint hard enough, and maybe we can see a silver lining.

– Yale Climate Connections cartoonist Tom Toro 

Tom Toro's new cartoon collection, "And to Think We Started as a Book Club," was released in October.

Tom Toro

09-Tom-Toro---YCC-Dumbo-LA-Fires-FINISH-1-16-25
03-Tom-Toro---YCC-newsletter-cartoon-Make-Atlantis-Great-Again-FINISH-3-20-25
02-Tom-Toro---We-Have-Shared-Responsibility-FINISH-7-23-25
04-Tom-Toro---One-Room-For-My-Monstrous-Guilt-FINISH-7-10-25
05-Tom-Toro---YCC-We-Already-Eat-Locally-FINISH-5-15-25
06-Tom-Toro---The-Future-Is-Very-Hazy-FINISH-forCC-9-9-25
07-Tom-Toro---YCC-21st-Century-Icarus-FINISH-9-4-25
08-Tom-Toro---YCC-Someday-She'll-Solve-The-World's-Problems-FINISH-2-6-25
10-Tom-Toro---YCC-Breaking-News-newsletter-cartoon-4-10-25
01-Tom-Toro---Seventy-Million-Canadian-Passports-FINISH-11-4-25

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