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People take photos of the sun as smoke from the wildfires in Canada cause hazy conditions in New York City in June 2023. Photo: Getty Images

August 20, 2023

How climate scientists feel about seeing their dire predictions come true – “I used to think, ‘I’m concerned for my children and grandchildren.’ Now it’s to the point where I’m concerned about myself.”

By Corinne Purtill 18 August 2023 (Los Angeles Times) – You are correct. It is, in fact, extremely unusual to be on hurricane watch in Southern California. If Hurricane Hilary continues on the trajectory forecasters are currently predicting, it will be the first tropical storm to make landfall in California since 1939, and only the second one to do […]

A woman reacts as she fails to find her house after flood waters devastate Nanxinfang village on the outskirts of Beijing, Friday, 4 August 2023. Severe floods in China’s northern province of Hebei brought by remnants of Typhoon Doksuri this month killed at least 29 people and caused billions of dollars in economic losses, its provincial government said Friday, 11 August 2023. Photo: Ng Han Guan / AP Photo

August 20, 2023

Heaviest rainfall in Beijing in at least 140 years causes more than $13 billion in economic losses – China’s Xi calls for measures to mitigate disastrous flooding amid economic slowdown

BEIJING, 17 August 2023 (AP) – Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for measures to mitigate the effects of this year’s disastrous flooding which has left scores dead and inflicted massive damage on crops, homes and infrastructure, including in and around Beijing. At least 90 rivers have risen above warning levels and 24 have already overflowed their […]

An aerial view of a wildfire in Kihei, Maui County, Hawaii, on 8 August 2023. Photo: Clint Hansen / Maui Real Estate / Reuters

August 9, 2023

“It’s apocalyptic”: People jump into the ocean to flee Maui wildfires – Burn patients overwhelm hospitals as 911 is cut off – Winds from Hurricane Dora fan flames – “This is so unprecedented”

By Holly Yan, Amanda Jackson, Jamiel Lynch and Chris Boyette 9 August 2023 (CNN) – The wildfires raging out of control in Maui are so catastrophic, some residents are hurling themselves into the ocean to escape the flames. Even emergency crews might not be able to help as the infernos – fueled in part by […]

Smoke from Canadian wildfires enveloped Washington, D.C. in June 2023. Photo: Kenny Holston / The New York Times

August 5, 2023

U.S. Republican energy strategy for 2024 denies climate change, calls for more drilling and less clean energy – “This agenda would be laughable if the consequences of it weren’t so dire”

By Lisa Friedman 4 August 2023 (The New York Times) – During a summer of scorching heat that has broken records and forced Americans to confront the reality of climate change, conservatives are laying the groundwork for future Republican administration that would dismantle efforts to slow global warming. The move is part of a sweeping strategy dubbed […]

Migrant workers from Mexico, working on six-month visas, pick squash and peppers on a farm in Lyons, Georgia, in July of 2023. Photo: José Ibarra Rizo / TIME

August 5, 2023

Extreme heat in 2023 endangers America’s workers and economy – Likely dozens of workers have already died from heat exposure in what may be the hottest summer in U.S. history – “Why are we being asked to choose between working and staying alive?”

By Aryn Baker 3 August 2023 GEORGIA (TIME) – Just after dawn on a recent July day in Rochelle, Ga., Silvia Moreno Ayala steps into a pair of sturdy work pants, slips on a long-sleeved shirt, and slathers her face and hands with sunscreen. She drapes a flowered scarf over her wide-brimmed hat to protect […]

Satellite view of an algae bloom in the waters north of the Scandinavian and Kola peninsulas, 3 August 2023. The image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. One group of researchers observed large shifts in the location of summer coccolithophore blooms to the northeast between 2002 and 2018. They also identified an increasing presence of Phaeocystis pouchetii, a type of phytoplankton normally found in warmer waters that can form gelatinous colonies millimeters in diameter. The effect that such changes might have on the ecosystem is a topic of ongoing research. Data: MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Photo: Michala Garrison / NASA Earth Observatory

August 5, 2023

The ocean’s color is changing as a consequence of global warming – Color changes reflect significant shifts in essential marine ecosystems – “To actually see it happening for real is not surprising, but frightening”

By Jennifer Chu 12 July 2023 (MIT News Office) – The ocean’s color has changed significantly over the last 20 years, and the global trend is likely a consequence of human-induced climate change, report scientists at MIT, the National Oceanography Center in the U.K., and elsewhere. In a study appearing today in Nature, the team writes […]

August 5, 2023

Texans die from heat after GOP Governor bans mandatory water breaks – “Houston will fight so its residents retain their constitutional rights and have immediate local recourse to government”

By Steven Monacelli 6 July 2023 (Texas Observer) – As a part of a bill critics have dubbed the “Death Star” bill—an expansive law that preempts legislation in eight key areas of local government—the Legislature has overridden local ordinances that require giving workers water breaks. Otherwise known as House Bill 2127, it was signed into […]

Center for Industrial Progress President Alex Epstein speaks at a House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee hearing in March 2023. Photo: Francis Chung / POLITICO

July 31, 2023

“It’s called summer”: U.S. Republicans brush off record 2023 heat wave – “Thank God for air conditioning”

By Chris D’Angelo and Igor Bobic 28 July 2023 (Huffington Post) – Unless you’ve been living underground or have a vested interest in turning a blind eye to reality, you know that climate change has sent temperatures soaring to dangerous levels around the planet this summer. Two global climate organizations on Thursday confirmed that July […]

This photo provided by the University of Miami Coral Reef Futures Lab, shows bleaching to elkhorn coral on Thursday, 20 July 2023, in the North Dry Rocks Reef off the coast of Key Largo, Fla. Some Florida Keys corals are losing their color weeks earlier in the summer than has been documented before, meaning they are under stress and their health is potentially endangered, federal scientists said. Photo: Liv Williamson / University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science / AP

July 31, 2023

Florida’s record hot ocean temperatures cause early coral bleaching – Some reefs in the Florida Keys have already lost all their color – “We are at least a month ahead of time, if not two months”

By Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder 26 July 2023 (US News & World Report) – Record high ocean temperatures around the Florida Keys are driving coral reefs to lose their color weeks earlier than usual in the latest sign that climate change and El Niño are pushing the world into uncharted territory. On Monday, a buoy in the […]

Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, shown here in Beijing in 2023, gave the directive about a decade ago to write software for vehicles that gave drivers “rosy” estimates of driving range, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. Tesla employees were instructed to thwart any customers complaining about poor driving range from bringing their vehicles in for service. In summer 2022, the company quietly created a “Diversion Team” in Las Vegas to cancel as many range-related appointments as possible. Photo: Tingshu Wang / REUTERS

July 30, 2023

Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints – “They’ve gotten really good at exploiting the rule book and maximizing certain points to work in their favor involving EPA tests”

By Steve Stecklow and Norihiko Shirouzu 27 July 2023 AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – In March 2023, Alexandre Ponsin set out on a family road trip from Colorado to California in his newly purchased Tesla, a used 2021 Model 3. He expected to get something close to the electric sport sedan’s advertised driving range: 353 miles […]