"Facing Rising Temperatures, Miami Appoints Chief Heat Officer"
"Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava (D) recently announced the county was creating a first-of-its-kind position — chief heat officer."
Source: Washington Post, 05/12/2021
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"A Growing Summertime Risk for Cities: Power Failures During Heat Waves"
"The growing risk of overlapping heat waves and power failures poses a severe threat that major American cities are not prepared for, new research suggests."
Source: NYTimes, 05/04/2021
Low-income and Latino Neighborhoods Endure More Extreme Heat in SW
"On any hot day in the Phoenix area, the heat builds up in some neighborhoods more than others."
Source: Arizona Republic, 03/18/2021
"Texans’ Frozen Pipes Are Warnings of Yet Another Climate Threat"
"Power outages are just the start. Aging policies and infrastructure are making drinking water vulnerable to extreme weather."
Source: Bloomberg Green, 02/25/2021
"Texas Blackouts Point to Coast-to-Coast Crises Waiting to Happen"
"Even as Texas struggled to restore electricity and water over the past week, signs of the risks posed by increasingly extreme weather to America’s aging infrastructure were cropping up across the country."
Source: NYTimes, 02/22/2021
"Biden’s Plea to Remake Grid Gets a Boost on Texas Power Crisis"
"Energy analysts and experts said the blackouts in Texas underscore the U.S. electric system’s need for more of almost everything, from additional power lines criss-crossing the country to large-scale storage systems that can supply electricity when demand spikes or renewable generation declines."
Source: Bloomberg, 02/18/2021
Climate Ravaged West With Heat and Drought Last Year; Will 2021 Be Worse?
"If there were any doubts that the climate is changing in the Colorado River Basin, 2020 went a long way toward dispelling them, thanks to yet another year of extreme weather."
Source: Inside Climate News, 02/01/2021
"Climate Crisis: Record Ocean Heat In 2020 Supercharged Extreme Weather"
"The world’s oceans reached their hottest level in recorded history in 2020, supercharging the extreme weather impacts of the climate emergency, scientists have reported."
Source: Guardian, 01/14/2021
Climate Hitting Colorado River 'Incredibly Fast And Incredibly Hard'
"The warming climate is intensifying drought, contributing to fires and drying out the river's headwaters, sending consequences cascading downstream."
Source: Arizona Republic, 01/11/2021
$95 Billion Damages: US Saw Record Year For Climate-Driven Catastrophes
"The US was battered by a record number of weather and climate-driven disasters in 2020 as extensive wildfires scorched the west, hurricanes in quick succession pummeled the east and extreme heat swept across the heart of the country, a new federal government report has shown."
Source: Guardian, 01/11/2021
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