“It’s hard to find examples of major weather events from last year that aren’t related to the jet stream,” PBS producer and host of “PBS Terra” Maiya May says in a new Yale Climate Connections video, produced by independent videographer Peter Sinclair.
[Editor’s Note] These impacts are not normally reported in the West. Worth seeing the devastation climate change is imposing elsewhere.
Union of Concerned Scientists summarizes a recent NOAA report.
A lot of smaller places don’t have the money to rebuild. The losses will be permanent .,. and will compound, disrupting people, jobs … lives. Here’s a case study.
This is a major development. Here’s a summary of links to the report itself, FAQs and what other people are saying.
The Polar Portal, a Danish NGO, calculated that enough water melted to cover all of Florida with two inches of water.
Scientists expected methane from thawing permafrost. What they found is ‘much more dangerous’ — the 2020 heatwave unleashed methane emissions from prehistoric limestone in two 375-mile long areas.
… But the biggest deviations toward warming will be in Greenland and along Russia’s Arctic Ocean coastline, a trend long seen by scientists.
The heat wave in parts of the Pacific Northwest played a role in the deaths of dozens of people, some of whom lived alone.
From 2017 to 2020, large icebergs at the ice shelf’s edge broke away
Even in Vancouver, parks, beaches and pools have been flooded with residents eager to cool off. US-Canada border restrictions extended until July 21.
