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
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"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
"A Hotter Planet Is Already Killing Americans, Health Experts Warn"
"Rising temperatures and environmental pollutants are already endangering the health and well-being of Americans, with fatal consequences for thousands of older men and women, a team of public health experts warned Wednesday. Their report, published in The Lancet, called on lawmakers to stem the rise of planet-warming gases in the next five years."
Source: NYTimes, 12/03/2020
"Temperatures Of Deepest Ocean Rising Quicker Than Previously Thought"
"Even the pitch black, nearly freezing waters at the bottom of the ocean – far from where humans live and burn fossil fuels – are slowly warming, according to a study of a decade of hourly measurements."
Source: Guardian, 10/14/2020
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