As The World Burns, Worsening Climate Crisis Impossible To Ignore
"Only if you close your eyes and cover your ears and avoid going outside is it possible to ignore the rapidly worsening climate crisis."
Source: LA Times, 07/26/2021
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"Climate-Driven Changes in Clouds are Likely to Amplify Global Warming"
"New research, using machine learning, helps project how the buildup of greenhouse gases will change clouds in ways that further heat the planet."
"Scientists know that global warming is changing clouds, but they haven’t been sure whether those changes would heat or cool the planet overall.
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/20/2021
"‘No One Is Safe’: Extreme Weather Batters the Wealthy World"
"Floods swept Germany, fires ravaged the American West and another heat wave loomed, driving home the reality that the world’s richest nations remain unprepared for the intensifying consequences of climate change."
Source: NYTimes, 07/19/2021
"Work Injuries Tied to Heat Are Vastly Undercounted, Study Finds"
"Extreme heat causes many times more workplace injuries than official records capture, and those injuries are concentrated among the poorest workers, new research suggests, the latest evidence of how climate change worsens inequality."
Source: NYTimes, 07/16/2021
Heat Could Kill Nearly All Young Salmon In Sacramento River: Officials
"California officials are warning nearly all juvenile chinook salmon in the Sacramento River could die due to abnormally hot underwater conditions as heat waves continue to bake the West."
Source: CNN, 07/15/2021
"Extreme Heat Chips Away at Effectiveness of Ozone Air Standards"
"Unrelenting heat waves are boiling cities across the U.S. this summer, spiking ozone pollution levels and threatening the fighting power of air quality safeguards."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 07/14/2021
"Trees: The Critical Infrastructure Low-Income Neighborhoods Lack"
"As the Pacific Northwest sweltered through a record-breaking heat wave last week, many residents here in America’s least air-conditioned city sought relief under the shade of cedars and maples in city parks. But in some areas of Seattle, that shelter was hard to come by."
Source: Stateline, 07/12/2021
"Extreme Heat Cooks Shellfish Alive On Puget Sound Beaches"
"A record-shattering heat wave June 26-28 coincided with some of the year's lowest tides on Puget Sound. The combination was lethal for millions of mussels, clams, oysters, sand dollars, barnacles, sea stars, moon snails, and other tideland creatures exposed to three afternoons of intense heat."
Source: KUOW, 07/12/2021
Climate Efforts in Massachusetts Clash With Subsidies For Fossil Fuels
"Massachusetts has ambitious climate goals, and not a lot of time to achieve them, which has some clean energy and climate experts questioning why a state program continues to promote fossil fuels with cash incentives for oil and gas home heating systems."
Source: Boston Globe, 07/12/2021
"California And Other Parts Of The West Broil And Burn"
"Firefighters working in searing heat struggled to contain the largest wildfire in California this year while state power operators urged people to conserve energy after a huge wildfire in neighboring Oregon disrupted the flow of electricity from three major transmission lines."
Source: AP, 07/12/2021
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