https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/nasa-last-month-was-earths-warmest-may-on-record? NASA: Last Month Was Earth's Warmest May on Record Particularly intense warmth in Siberia this spring may have awakened "zombie" fires, portending a brutal summer ahead ImaGeoBy Tom YulsmanJune 13, 2020 1:30 AM Abnormal warmth dominated the globe in May, making it the warmest such month on record, according to NASA. (Source: NASA GISS via … Continue reading May the hottest in recorded history — zombie fires? →

Other natural disasters aren't going to disappear or even hold back just because we're already wrestling with a pandemic that will probably have its second wave in the fall/winter. The national forecasters keep increasing their projections of the number of major storms that could hit the East Coast of the U.S. this hurricane season. Time … Continue reading 2020-2021 could be a bonanza year for hurricanes hitting the U.S. →

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/one-billion-people-will-suffer-from-unliveable-heat-within-50-years-study-finds E360 Digest May 15, 2020 One Billion People Will Suffer From “Unliveable” Heat Within 50 years, Study Finds This article was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A view of Lahore, Pakistan. Umair Khan/Flickr The human cost of the climate crisis will hit harder, … Continue reading One billion people live in places that will be too hot for humans in 50 years →

‘Fire in Paradise’ Review: Fanning the Flames It was one of the few California towns with a decent evacuation plan. But no one envisioned they’d have to evacuate everyone at once. A home burns in Paradise, Calif., during the Camp Fire on Nov. 8, 2018.PHOTO: JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES By Gregory Crouch May 11, 2020 6:13 pm EDT … Continue reading Remember coronavirus is not the only natural killer — western wildfires of summer →

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242855-climate-change-has-already-made-parts-of-the-world-too-hot-for-humans/ Climate change has already made parts of the world too hot for humans Environment 8 May 2020 By Adam Vaughan Climate change is already making some places unliveable Global warming has already made parts of the world hotter than the human body can withstand, decades earlier than climate models expected. Measurements at Jacobabad in Pakistan … Continue reading Portions of our planet already too hot for humans →

Many of those non-experts who are most optimistic about possible ways of keeping the planet from baking assume that individuals, acting together, could affect that emissions enough to prevent that disaster. The shutdown makes clear that's not true. Even with everyone at home (I'm assuming that the additional use of the internet is a de … Continue reading Lockdown barely reduced climate crisis emissions – now what? →

You're going to find this very unsatisfactory unless you click thru for the graphics and 2020 list of names https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/08/weather/hurricane-season-2020-forecast-above-average/index.html Experts agree this hurricane season will be above-average, maybe even extremely active By Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist Updated 10:06 AM ET, Fri May 8, 2020 (CNN)Hurricane season is fast approaching and it is likely to … Continue reading 2020 Hurricane season could be wild →

https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/five-ways-take-climate-action-while-stuck-home?utm_source March 30, 2020 | 6:00 AM Five Ways to Take Climate Action While Stuck at Home While we’re all staying in to do our part to fight the spread of the coronavirus, there’s still plenty you can do to advocate for a better, healthier, more sustainable tomorrow. Here at Climate Reality, we face the … Continue reading What you can do at home about the climate crisis, even now →