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The 130-Degree F Reading in Death Valley Is A World Record Con: 134 degrees in 1913 is still the official record and there is no reason to change it. But here’s something the media tends to ignore. July 1913 had several days at or above 128°F. This is simply “business as usual” for Death Valley.

Speaking to a small press briefing including Daily Maverick, Wopke Hoekstra, EU commissioner for climate action, conceded that achieving an ambitious agreement at the upcoming COP28 would be tough. For starters, Hoekstra — a Dutch politician who held roles at Shell and McKinsey from 2002 to 201...

World leaders will face a reckoning over humanity's failure to curb climate-heating emissions and polluting fossil fuels when they meet for U.N. climate talks this week, as the planet swelters in likely the hottest year in human history. Pope Francis, King Charles III, political&...

Pro: Disastrous Floods are Increasing Floods in inland areas are the most common type of natural disaster in the United States, and one of the most harmful to people and property. In 2017 alone 25 people lost their lives trapped in floods, and more than 3 billion dollars were lost in property damages and ruined crops. Global

Pro: The Warming Isn’t Evenly Dispersed Global warming reaching 1.5 degrees doesn’t mean that average temperatures in some places won’t rise significantly beyond that number. Again – it’s just the global average. Then there’s the fact that as average temperatures rise, spikes and heatwaves will go much, much higher than just 1.5 degrees. As the

Pro: Climate Change Cause Global Weirding Here’s a video from Texas A&M scientist Katherine Hayhoe discussing this issue. But how is global warming to blame? (for the cold weather) The answer is simple: because the phenomenon that causes the polar vortex to break down is known as sudden stratospheric warming, where the upper layers of the

A climate crusader-cum-academic-cum farmer, who has analysed long-term and short-term climate data, has warned that by 2100, Maharashtra will become hotter, wetter and agriculture activities would be hit in a big way, affecting major crops and ...

It’s 35 years since formation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human

Pro: Droughts are Getting More Severe From The Climate Reality Project: Of all the ways climate change inflicts harm, drought is the one people worry about most, according to a Pew Research Center survey. And it’s not surprising – droughts have been drier and lasting longer in recent years thanks in part to climate change. In