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Trump spreading wildfire misinformation

Misinformation is spreading rapidly as experts say climate change is the likely accelerant for California's crisis

Salon · Jan 11, 2025

Hurricane Milton is tied for the fastest-forming Category 5 hurricane on record. It could become the new normal.

Hurricane Milton captured by NASA's GOES-East satellite as it made landfall on Florida's west coast.

LiveScience · Oct 10, 2024

How strong can hurricanes get?

There's a theoretical limit to the maximum sustained wind speeds of hurricanes, but climate change may increase that "speed limit."

LiveScience · Oct 8, 2024

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Can Hurricane Milton become a ‘Category 6’ storm – which doesn’t yet exist?

Further rise in global temperatures could lead to more extreme storms like Helene and Milton and create the need for adding another category, researchers say

The Independent UK · Oct 8, 2024

"Twisters" lacks climate change message

The director of "Twisters" said he nixed mention of the global heating crisis to avoid seeming "preachy"

Salon · Jul 22, 2024

How deadly is climate change really?

While climate change-related deaths are a regular occurrence, humans are getting better at surviving extreme heat

Salon · Jul 22, 2024

Heat making Earth "weird" — and deadly

For 13 straight months, global heat records have been shattered. This is unprecedented in human history

Salon · Jul 11, 2024

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Hurricane Beryl fueled by climate change

The first hurricane of the 2024 season is already making huge waves — and burning fossil fuels made it possible

Salon · Jul 2, 2024

Dial it up to Category 6? As warming stokes storms, some want a bigger hurricane category

A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6.

The Hindu · Feb 6, 2024

Hurricanes becoming so strong that new category needed, study says

Scientists propose new category 6 rating to classify ‘mega-hurricanes’, becoming more likely due to climate crisis

The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2024

2023 proved climate change is here

This sizzling year shattered records related to heat, sea ice and more. And the future could get even hotter

Salon · Dec 15, 2023

Libyan floods fueled by climate change

Cyclone Daniel caused two dams to fail in Derna but the storm was supercharged by a warming planet, scientists say

Salon · Sep 15, 2023

Climate change causing wildfires

While Canadian wildfires devastate North America, other parts of the country are experiencing record heat waves

Salon · Jun 29, 2023

Current heatwave across US south made five times more likely by climate crisis

Latest ‘heat dome’ event over Texas and Louisiana, plus much of Mexico, driven by human-cause climate change, scientists find

The Guardian - US · Jun 27, 2023

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Salon · Mar 5, 2023

Why California is still in a drought

Record-setting snow in LA doesn't mean the state has recovered from its historic drought yet

Los Angeles Times · Nov 24, 2022

Study: Climate change is increasing the frequency and temperature of extreme heat waves

LOS ANGELES — As California awakens to the worsening risk of extreme climate events, researchers are shedding new light on last year's anomalous and extreme Pacific Northwest heat wave. One study published this week said such heat waves could become 20 times more likely to occur if current carbon emissions…

WEKU · Nov 23, 2022

Climate change is making the weather more severe. Why don't most forecasts mention it?

Scientists and forecasters are trying to figure out how to talk about the connection between climate change and severe weather. It could have big impacts on how people think about global warming.

Tribune News Service · Oct 3, 2022

Climate change worsened Hurricane Ian's rainfall by 10%, scientists say

Climate change made Hurricane Ian’s most extreme rainfall about 10% worse than it would have been without two centuries of greenhouse gas pollution, according to a first-take analysis of the storm by two U.S. climate researchers. Their rapid analysis, which they shared on Twitter, looked only at rainfall, and not…

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The Independent UK · Sep 30, 2022

Study finds that climate change added 10% to Ian's rainfall

A quick study by two scientists calculates that climate change made Hurricane Ian 10% rainier than it would have been if there were no such thing as global warming

Axios · Sep 7, 2022

California's worst-ever September heat wave tests power grid

So far the grid has held up, though the heat wave is not yet over.

Salon · Jul 19, 2022

Europe engulfed by heat, wildfires

Europe is experiencing unprecedented wildfires that are without question worsened by climate change, experts say

WEKU · Jul 7, 2022

Researchers can now explain how climate change is affecting your weather

For decades, it was impossible to say that a specific weather event was caused, or even made worse, by climate change. But advanced research methods are changing that.

Salon · Jun 15, 2022

Yellowstone floods are a harbinger

Climate change is bound to increase the frequency and severity of such floods in the future, experts say

Axios · Jun 8, 2022

America is staring down a summer of disasters

How climate change is turning summer into "the danger season."

The Independent UK · Apr 12, 2022

Pouring it on: Climate change made 2020 hurricanes rainier

Human-caused climate change made the record-smashing 2020 Atlantic hurricane season even wetter

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