NYTIMES (Judson Jones) - How the Super Godzilla Monster El Niño Could Actually Affect Your Weather
Yes, El Niño is unusually powerful this time. But that’s not always a bad thing.
Yes, El Niño is unusually powerful this time. But that’s not always a bad thing.
The European Union isn’t known for firefighting expertise. But with the continent ablaze, Brussels is playing a growing role.
As climate change makes extreme heat more frequent and dangerous, states are building systems to manage a hazard they weren't historically built to handle. The big picture: In a growing number of states, officials are appointing heat officers, writing statewide plans, setting worker protections, funding cooling infrastructure, and coordinating responses across agencies. Driving the news: July was the hottest month ever measured in the contiguous U.S., with every Lower 48 state above its 20th-century average. - The speed at which states have ramped up their response to extreme heat has been "stunning," V. Kelly Turner, associate director of heat research at the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, told Axios. - "Heat's everywhere, but…
Image: Antarctica Still Below -100F; High Arctic’s Coldest Summer On Record; Winter Persists In South America; Greenland Opens With 17.1 Gt; Hurricane Activity Hits Record Low; + Krakatau Erupts To 50,000 Ft Related: New Study: [...]
Image: Manual for judges saying “How Science Works” is very wrong on climate science Related: Antarctic Station Sets New All-Time Cold Record; Met Office’s Zombie Weather Stations; + RCP8.5 Is Dead — Meet Its High-Impact [...]
Journalist Michael Shellenberger weighs in on the U.N.’s latest ‘doomer report’ on climate change.
Image: The real climate crisis! Trillions spent fighting change while adaptation gets scraps Related: Kazakhstan’s Cold Records Continue; Half A Quadrillion Gallons Fell Across U.S. This Summer; The El Niño Spike Begins; + Solar Activity [...]
Darkened by soot from vehicles and factories, the region’s glaciers are absorbing more heat and melting at dangerous rates.
Whenever a natural disaster occurs anywhere in the world that can be connected in some way with the alleged climate crisis, out come the professionals […] Source
It proposed a new goal of limiting the “overshoot” of rising temperatures and eventually figuring out how to undo the temperature gains, a highly uncertain path.