Jul 4, 2021
Extreme temperatures in China coupled with a lack of hydro-power forced blackouts in some of its largest industrial cities last month. A rare and short-lived subtropical storm popped up in the South Atlantic off Argentina and Uruguay. And record heat has seared Canada and the Pacific Northwest, while drought crackled the entire western U.S., leaving it primed to burn.
Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is just days old, but the extremes keep piling up. The conditions driving these events heat, ocean warming, changes in longstanding weather patterns aren’t going away anytime soon, meaning the worst may be yet to come.
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Northwest heat wave wilts new GOP climate resolve POLITICO 2 hrs ago By Zack Colman © (Ted S. Warren/AP Photo) Carlos Ramos hands out bottles of water and sack lunches June 28 as he works at a hydration station in front of the Union Gospel Mission in Seattle.
A week ago, three lawmakers from the Northwest joined dozens of their Republican colleagues in creating the new Conservative Climate Caucus to show they were serious about addressing the growing threats to the planet.
Then they went silent as a devastating heat wave hit the region.
The trio Reps. Cliff Bentz of Oregon and Dan Newhouse and Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state have been largely invisible as the heat wave shattered temperature records, melted streetcar power cables and caused rolling blackouts, all the symptoms of a warming climate that scientists say will only become more common in the future.