https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/climate-and-environment/2021/8/13/1_5545882.amp.html This summer's extreme weather won't seem like an aberration for long, climate researcher warns Published Aug. 13, 2021 10:46 a.m. ETBy Cameron FrenchCTVNews.ca writer TORONTO -- Canadians alarmed by this summer’s extreme weather, including deadly record temperatures in British Columbia and forest fires that have burned towns and blanketed much of the country in smoke, … Continue reading This year’s extremes = tomorrow’s normal →

theconversation.com/the-water-cycle-is-intensifying-as-the-climate-warms-ipcc-report-warns-that-means-more-intense-storms-and-flooding-165590 The water cycle is intensifying as the climate warms, IPCC report warns – that means more intense storms and flooding August 9, 2021 4.04am EDT Leer en espanol The world watched in July 2021 as extreme rainfall became floods that washed away centuries-old homes in Europe, triggered landslides in Asia and inundated subways in China. More … Continue reading Planet’s water cycle intensifying →

Rain increases the melt rate because of its temperature, its darker color than the original paler ice, its falling on places that ordinarily don't melt at all, and its weight (water being denser than snow or ice). Rain in Greenland is bad news.If Greenland loses its ice, ocean levels will go up quite a bit. … Continue reading Rain in Greenland for the first time in recorded history — why it matters →

Here's a link to another, excellent magazine article on the same disaster: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/siberian-wildfires-are-larger-globes-total-blazes-year-combined-180978433/ https://abcnews.go.com/International/siberian-wildfires-now-bigger-fires-world-combined/story?id=79422602 Siberian wildfires now bigger than all other fires in world combined Huge fires have been fueled by the historic drought.ByPatrick Reevell August 12, 2021, 12:52 PM 00:1605:525:51 Siberian wildfires now bigger than all other fires in world combinedABC News' Patrick Reevell … Continue reading Siberian wildfires (at 10 million acres) bigger than all other fires on planet combined →

https://www.vox.com/22613532/climate-change-methane-emissions (Also: https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/11/us/methane-climate-change/index.html) It’s time to freak out about methane emissions This lesser-known greenhouse gas will make or break a “decisive decade” for climate change. By Rebecca Leber@rebleberrebecca.leber@vox.com  Aug 12, 2021, 2:00pm EDT From his home office in Arizona, Riley Duren was multitasking, telling me about frighteningly powerful greenhouse gases even as he monitored his team’s aircraft. … Continue reading Methane far worse for us than CO2 →

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/summer-normal-heat-season-deadly/619302/ Summer Is Hot, but This Is Abnormal Scorching weather has far outstripped old expectations, but many Americans still have trouble seeing high temperatures as a distinct hazard.By Kathy Baughman McLeod Ralph Freso / Getty JUNE 26, 2021SHARE About the author: Kathy Baughman McLeod is the director of the Adrienne Arsht–Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center at the Atlantic Council. … Continue reading This is now heat/fire season, not summer →

http://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/climate/un-climate-report-takeaways.html? 5 takeaways from the major new U.N. climate report. The burning of fossil fuels is behind rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Credit...Kacper Pempel/Reuters By Henry Fountain Aug. 9, 2021 On Monday the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a scientific body convened by the United Nations, released a major new report concluding that the … Continue reading 5 Takeaways from major U.N. climate change report →