"Extreme Heat In Oceans ‘Passed Point Of No Return’ In 2014"
"Extreme heat in the world’s oceans passed the “point of no return” in 2014 and has become the new normal, according to research."
Source: Guardian, 02/03/2022
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"Measuring Climate Change: It’s Not Just Heat, It’s Humidity"
"When it comes to measuring global warming, humidity, not just heat, matters in generating dangerous climate extremes, a new study finds."
Source: AP, 02/01/2022
Winter Gas Bill From Hell: Oklahomans Face Paying $1.4Bn Over Snowstorm
"Customers saddled with paying 600 times the usual price for energy as regulators are accused of being too close to the industry they monitor".
Source: Floodlight/Oklahoma Watch, 01/20/2022
"Health Risks of Smoke and Ozone Rise in the West as Wildfires Worsen"
"Simultaneous high levels of the two pollutants, which harm human health, are occurring with increasing frequency, researchers say."
"Dangerous levels of two air pollutants, ozone and smoke, are occurring in tandem with increasing frequency over widespread parts of the Western United States where millions of people live, researchers said Wednesday.
The two harmful pollutants are a result of worsening wildfires and extreme heat, and researchers suggest the increase is linked to climate change.
Source: NYTimes, 01/07/2022
Over 40% of Americans Live In Counties Hit By Climate Disasters In 2021
"More than 4 in 10 Americans live in a county that was struck by climate-related extreme weather last year, according to a new Washington Post analysis of federal disaster declarations, and more than 80 percent experienced a heat wave."
Source: Washington Post, 01/07/2022
"This Vast Wildfire Lab Is Helping Foresters Prepare for a Hotter Planet"
"When the Bootleg fire tore through a nature reserve in Oregon this summer, the destruction varied in different areas. Researchers say forest management methods, including controlled burns, were a big factor."
Source: NYTimes, 01/06/2022
Scientists Say Worse Extreme Weather Disasters Than 2021's Lie Ahead
"Scores of studies presented this week at the world’s largest climate science conference offered an unequivocal and unsettling message: Climate change is fundamentally altering what kind of weather is possible, and its fingerprint can be found in the rising number of disasters that have claimed lives and upended livelihoods around the world."
Source: Washington Post, 12/20/2021
Warming Will Make Undocumented Migration Into US ‘Increasingly Dangerous’
"The already perilous desert crossing from Mexico to the US will become more dangerous as the climate warms, new research says."
Source: Carbon Brief, 12/20/2021
What We Know, And Don’t, About Effects Of Climate Change On Tornadoes
"Scientists have been able to draw links between a warming planet and hurricanes, heat waves and droughts, attributing the likelihood that climate change played a role in individual isolated events. The same can’t be said for tornadoes yet."
Source: NYTimes, 12/15/2021
Laws Offer Little Protection to Expected 200 Million Climate Refugees
"Negotiators at COP26 are unlikely to deal with the challenges posed by climate migration, a failure that some experts say shows “a lack of political will.”"
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/03/2021
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