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California Wildfires Triple Amid Drought After Record 2020 Fire Season On 5/19/21 at 7:34 AM EDT The flames that burned more than 1,300 acres in Los Angeles County over the weekend served as a reminder to California residents that wildfires have become a constant threat rather than a concern relegated to the officially recognized wildfire season of the late summer and fall months. By early May, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) reported at least 9,392 acres bu...

Yep, California Really is Getting Hotter and Drier Every ten years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, averages climate data from the past three decades to get an idea of where the country is weather-wise. And the latest figures show that Californias is ALREADY getting warmer and drier. Guests: Noah Diffenbaugh teaches Earth Systems Science at Stanford University   LAUSD Drops Extended School Year For much of the last year, Governor Gavin Newsom has been encouraging ...

New normal for U.S. climate is officially hotter - and experts see trouble for California FacebookTwitterEmail The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday released its new "climate normals."NOAA The official “new normal” for the U.S. climate is warmer than ever before — and the changes are ominous for California, experts say. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday released its new climate averages, based on the 30-year period from 1991 to 2020. T...

arrow Pedestrians cross a rain soaked Ninth Avenue at 57th Street during a severe thunderstorm in New York City, May 18th, 2018. Peter Foley/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock It’s tornado season, as this week’s hail and severe storm warnings around New York and New Jersey can attest. The Northeast isn’t known for these violent windstorms, a reputation typically reserved for the Midwest and the South. Six died during a tornado in Alabama last month. But the tri-state area is expected to f...

Earth Cooling Dramatically Winter storms are wreaking havoc in central and southern States. The climate news has turned catastrophic. People are angry; however, the federal government is too busy with its delusional psychosis over global warming and the COVID pandemic. People don’t realize how bad and multifaceted the situation is. We have full-scale blackouts in Mexico, millions of Americans still in the dark with no power and heat, and the biggest outage in American oil and gas history. A...

UpdatedMon, Jan 25, 2021 at 6:17 pm PT Reply The study estimates blames climate change for more than a third of the estimated $199 billion in damages caused by floods related to climate change from 1988 to 2017, the report aid. (Shutterstock) STANFORD, CA — Flood damage attributed to climate change over a period of three decades has cost the United States nearly $75 billion according to a Stanford study released earlier this month, Stanford News reports The study estimates blames climate chan...

Biden’s Climate Orders Help California, But Will Also Challenge The State To Do Better, Experts Say Listen Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. President Joe Biden signs his first executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. AP Photo/Evan Vucci President Joe Biden signed 17 executive orders just hours after being sworn into office and reversed several Trump administ...

Flooding is the most common weather-related disaster threat in the United States.

These 6 numbers define the climate challenge in a changing U.S. Alejandra Borunda © Photograph by Ruth Fremson, The New York Times/Redux President-elect Joe Biden speaks as Vice President-elect Kamala Harris watches, at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware on November 16, 2020. The numbers are in: 2020 tied with 2016 for the hottest year on record, a clear sign of a planet in distress. The results are not surprising. Despite a seven percent drop in carbon emissions from f...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. Rain and Heat Extremes Set to Grow Millions of people in Asia and Europe can expect fiercer heat extremes, even if the world makes promised emissions cuts. By Tim Radford The big heat is on the way: over 50% of Europe, and across more than a quarter of east Asia, the probability of recor...