This blog is part of a series on extreme weather. Click here to read about extreme heat and how public lands offer solutions. A 20-year-old living in the southwestern United States has essentially lived their entire life in a megadrought. A dry spell that's especially harsh in the summer has afflicted the region for two decades—and is... Continue Reading →
The skyrocketing cost of fire insurance foreshadows a larger confrontation over so-called managed retreat. Stu Smith got an email from his insurance company last summer with some bad news: His premium was more than quadrupling. Smith is the co-owner of Smith Madrone, a wine operation in the mountains of California’s Sonoma Valley, and he had... Continue Reading →
As wildfires worsen, more California farms are deemed too risky to insure
We won’t mince words: We are in a climate emergency. Our planet is experiencing more frequent and intense wildfires, rising sea temperatures, melting sea ice, ocean acidification, habitat loss, drought, extreme flooding and natural disasters. Just this year, we’ve seen extreme climate-related disasters and record-breaking temperatures that we could have never thought possible just a... Continue Reading →
7 Shocking Climate Change Facts from 2021 (and what you can do to help)
I am re-posting this because his message is so salient, crucial and of grave importance. It is a call to all of us and more importantly world leaders. It cannot be over-emphasized. We speak with leading climate scientist Michael Mann about the catastrophic impact of the climate crisis around the world. He says he and... Continue Reading →
Floods, Fires & Heat Waves: Michael Mann on “The New Climate War” & the Fight to Take Back the Planet
Wildfires are threatening homes on the West Coast and in Canada, but their smoke is polluting air as far away as New York. From his uptown Manhattan home in Morningside Heights, Samir Kumar can usually see skyscrapers downtown. But this week, as smoke from wildfires raging in the western United States and Canada rode the jet... Continue Reading →
Wildfire smoke blowing across the U.S. is more toxic than we thought
Just 2% of the Covid-19 stimulus funding promised by nations has been spent on clean energy, meaning that global emissions are likely to hit a record high in 2023 and continue rising thereafter. That is the key finding of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Sustainable Recovery Tracker. Published today (20 July), the Tracker analyses more... Continue Reading →
IEA: Global emissions to reach record high by 2023, with governments breaking green recovery promises
Measurements over Canada's Mackenzie River Basin suggest that thawing permafrost is starting to free greenhouse gases long trapped in oil and gas deposits. Global warming may be unleashing new sources of heat-trapping methane from layers of oil and gas that have been buried deep beneath Arctic permafrost for millennia. As the Earth’s frozen crust thaws,... Continue Reading →
Methane Seeps Out as Arctic Permafrost Starts to Resemble Swiss Cheese
A crawl in several parts of Europe on Wednesday caused flooding caused by a gentle storm, with about six inches of rain falling in the region near Cologne and forests before the end began on Friday. There were also floods in Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, but the worst affected were Germany, where the official... Continue Reading →
‘It Is All Connected’: Extreme Weather in the Age of Climate Change
One to 2 degrees Celsius of warming can do a lot of damage. Climate scientists have long warned that global warming would lead to extreme heat in many parts of the world. But the 120 degree Fahrenheit temperatures brought on by the heatwave in the Pacific Northwest in June were more in line with what... Continue Reading →
Is climate change happening faster than expected? A climate scientist explains.
Global decarbonisation : Lies, damn lies, and statistics?
Decarbonisation is the only way out of our climate emergency. The quicker we do it the less damage we will incur. But just about every mainstream agency and organisation around the world is advising policymakers not to move too quickly away from fossil fuels for fear of disrupting economies and societies. The real world statistics... Continue Reading →
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) declared a state of emergency Saturday over what she called "extraordinary flooding," which caused power outages, sewer backups and left dozens of drivers stranded. Driving the news: Flood watches were in place through Sunday, after up to 7 inches of rain fell in some parts of the state over the past... Continue Reading →
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