Extreme weather is nearly universal experience: AP-NORC poll
1 year, 8 months ago

Extreme weather is nearly universal experience: AP-NORC poll

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An overwhelming majority of people in the U.S. say they have recently experienced an extreme weather event, a new poll shows, and most of them attribute that to climate change. Adriana Moreno said she feels like she’s been talking about climate change for years, but it’s only recently that the 22-year-old high school teacher has noticed her older family members bringing up the issue more and more – “almost every time I see them,” said Moreno, a Democrat in New York. It’s not that they didn’t believe in climate change before, Moreno said, but it was “out of sight, out of mind.” Overall, about 8 in 10 U.S. adults say that in the past five years they have personally felt the effects of extreme weather, such as extreme heat or drought, according to the new poll. “More extreme events are expected.” The poll shows about three-quarters of U.S. adults say recent extreme weather events have had at least some influence on their beliefs about climate change.

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'Dangerous new era': climate change spurs disaster in 2024
1 week, 5 days ago

'Dangerous new era': climate change spurs disaster in 2024

Raw Story  

From tiny and impoverished Mayotte to oil-rich behemoth Saudi Arabia, prosperous European cities to overcrowded slums in Africa, nowhere was spared the devastating impact of supercharged climate disasters in 2024. World Weather Attribution, experts on how global warming influences extreme events, said nearly every disaster they analyzed over the past 12 months was intensified by climate change. - Floods - …

The upside of climate pessimism
1 month, 1 week ago

The upside of climate pessimism

Salon  

Hope is often said to be the best medicine, essential to getting people through difficult times. “The people that I know who are really seriously working on these issues and who are engaging in climate change activism,” Bloodhart said, stressing that this is her personal observation, “they have a little bit of hope, but they mostly are pretty pessimistic and …

Revealed: The 10 DEADLIEST extreme weather events over the past 20 years - and scientists say climate change made them ALL worse
2 months, 1 week ago

Revealed: The 10 DEADLIEST extreme weather events over the past 20 years - and scientists say climate change made them ALL worse

Daily Mail  

From droughts, floods and heatwaves, it seems no corner of the globe has been spared by fatal climate events in the past two decades. All 10 events – three tropical cyclones, four heatwaves, a drought and two floods – were made worse by human-caused climate change, say scientists at World Weather Attribution. The Somalian drought back in 2011 caused a …

Hey, presidential candidates, climate change would like a word
3 months, 1 week ago

Hey, presidential candidates, climate change would like a word

LA Times  

It is Wednesday, Oct. 2. The Cedar fire killed 15 people and destroyed more than 2,500 structures in San Diego’s inland suburbs and rural communities; at the time, it was the largest California wildfire in 75 years. A fire season surpassing 1 million scorched acres of land that doesn’t feel like a big deal — that’s climate change. A hurricane …

This famous hurricane-chasing weatherman says people are avoiding the ugly truth on climate change
3 months, 1 week ago

This famous hurricane-chasing weatherman says people are avoiding the ugly truth on climate change

Salon  

Discussing the weather is one of the most politically neutral forms of small talk. Meteorologist Glenn "The Hurricane" Schwartz might know something about explaining complex topics of weather and climate to a general audience. "Are they so sure that the 97 to 99% of climate scientists are wrong, that they're willing to risk their children's and grandchildren's future? Perhaps most …

Halfway through ‘danger season,’ nearly all of America has been touched by extreme weather
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Halfway through ‘danger season,’ nearly all of America has been touched by extreme weather

LA Times  

The United States is halfway through the period commonly known as summer, or what some scientists are now calling the “danger season” — the stretch of time from May to October when extreme weather events are peaking and likely to overlap due to the exacerbating influence of climate change. So far this season, 99% of the country’s population has been …

The value of attributing extreme events to climate change | Explained
7 months, 3 weeks ago

The value of attributing extreme events to climate change | Explained

The Hindu  

Just a couple of decades ago, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change argued that individual weather events could not be attributed to climate change. The science has since evolved, albeit with all its attendant uncertainties, and now we regularly hear of researchers having been able to attribute some individual extreme events to climate change. Economically developing countries, in particular …

Swaths of the US are living through a brutal summer. It’s a climate wake-up call for many
1 year, 5 months ago

Swaths of the US are living through a brutal summer. It’s a climate wake-up call for many

Associated Press  

Veronica Iordanova remembers Octobers growing up in Arizona when it was too cold to trick-or-treat in a short-sleeved Halloween costume. However, “there’s still a long ways to go before Americans have fully understood what’s happening here” with climate change, Leiserowitz said. “Back then I was like, oh, my gosh, you know, climate change, that’s horrible,” said Paul Bowyer, who grew …

Extreme weather is nearly universal experience: AP-NORC poll
1 year, 8 months ago

Extreme weather is nearly universal experience: AP-NORC poll

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — An overwhelming majority of people in the United States say they have recently experienced an extreme weather event, a new poll shows, and most of them attribute that to climate change. Adriana Moreno said she feels like she’s been talking about climate change for years, but it’s only recently that the 22-year-old high school teacher has noticed her …

Extreme weather is nearly universal experience: AP-NORC poll
1 year, 8 months ago

Extreme weather is nearly universal experience: AP-NORC poll

The Hindu  

An overwhelming majority of people in the United States say they have recently experienced an extreme weather event, a new poll shows, and most of them attribute that to climate change. Adriana Moreno said she feels like she's been talking about climate change for years, but it's only recently that the 22-year-old high school teacher has noticed her older family …

Extreme weather events are becoming more severe, not less
55 years ago

Extreme weather events are becoming more severe, not less

Associated Press  

CLAIM: Climate, weather or meteorological events that we would classify as “extreme” have declined in severity over the last 20 or 30 years. Scientific research has documented how events including extreme precipitation, droughts and forest fires have become more frequent and severe as a result of climate change. THE FACTS: A podcast clip shared on Instagram this week falsely claims …

90% of humans will suffer extreme heat, drought due to climate change: report
1 year, 11 months ago

90% of humans will suffer extreme heat, drought due to climate change: report

Salon  

If you are reading this article, there is a 9 out of 10 chance that you live somewhere that will experience future extreme heat weather events due to climate change. In an analysis published for the scientific journal Nature Sustainability, Oxford's Professor Louise Slater and Wuhan University's Dr. Jiabo Yin explain that as the planet's temperature continues to rise, there …

UN weather report: Climate woes bad and getting worse faster
2 years, 2 months ago

UN weather report: Climate woes bad and getting worse faster

Associated Press  

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Earth’s warming weather and rising seas are getting worse and doing so faster than before, the World Meteorological Organization warned Sunday in a somber note as world leaders started gathering for international climate negotiations. “The latest State of the Global Climate report is a chronicle of climate chaos,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. “We must …

'Weather-related disasters have increased five times over last 50 years,' says UN
2 years, 3 months ago

'Weather-related disasters have increased five times over last 50 years,' says UN

Firstpost  

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres cited the floods in Pakistan, heat waves in Europe, droughts in places such as China, the Horn of Africa, and the United States – and pointed the finger at fossil fuels Geneva: With weather disasters costing $200 million a day and irreversible climate catastrophe looming, the world is “heading in the wrong direction,” the United Nations …

AP News Digest 3:25 am
2 years, 4 months ago

AP News Digest 3:25 am

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. ———————— TOP STORIES ———————— TAIWAN-US-LAWMAKERS — Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen met with a delegation …

Is the extreme weather of 2022 the climate tipping point for Americans, at long last?
2 years, 5 months ago

Is the extreme weather of 2022 the climate tipping point for Americans, at long last?

Salon  

Record rainfall and flash flooding in the St. Louis metro area, with more than eight inches of rain in less than eight hours, breaking the previous record from more than a century ago. By 2021, a Quinnipiac poll found that 61 percent of Americans believed "extreme weather events in the United States over the past few years" were "related to …

Extreme weather in the U.S. cost 688 lives and $145 billion last year, NOAA says
2 years, 11 months ago

Extreme weather in the U.S. cost 688 lives and $145 billion last year, NOAA says

NPR  

Extreme weather in the U.S. cost 688 lives and $145 billion last year, NOAA says Enlarge this image toggle caption Gillian Flaccus/AP Gillian Flaccus/AP Wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes and a winter storm and cold wave were among 20 weather and climate disasters in the U.S. last year that cost $1 billion or more, totaling $145 billion and killing 688 people, according …

Deadly extreme weather year for US as carbon emissions soar
2 years, 11 months ago

Deadly extreme weather year for US as carbon emissions soar

Associated Press  

The United States staggered through a steady onslaught of deadly billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in an extra hot 2021, while the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions last year jumped 6% because of surges in coal and long-haul trucking, putting America further behind its 2030 climate change cutting goal. And last year was the deadliest weather year for the contiguous United …

Deadly extreme weather year for U.S. as carbon emissions soar
2 years, 11 months ago

Deadly extreme weather year for U.S. as carbon emissions soar

LA Times  

2021 had the second-highest number of billion-dollar weather disasters — which are adjusted for inflation with records going back to 1980 — and third costliest. The United States staggered through a steady onslaught of deadly billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in an extra hot 2021, while the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions last year jumped 6% because of surges in coal …

Top 10 extreme climate events of 2021 each cost over $1.5 bn of damage, report says
3 years ago

Top 10 extreme climate events of 2021 each cost over $1.5 bn of damage, report says

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The ten most devastating climate events of 2021, including hurricanes in the US, China, and …

Majority in US concerned about climate: AP-NORC/EPIC poll
3 years, 2 months ago

Majority in US concerned about climate: AP-NORC/EPIC poll

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden heads to a vital U.N. climate summit at a time when a majority of Americans regard the deteriorating climate as a problem of high importance to them, an increase from just a few years ago. As Biden struggles to pass significant climate legislation at home ahead of next week’s U.N. climate summit, the new AP-NORC/EPIC …

Feeling Climate Dread? You’re Not Alone
3 years, 3 months ago

Feeling Climate Dread? You’re Not Alone

Wired  

In September, researchers published an alarming survey of 10,000 folks in 10 countries, all age 16 to 25, about their views on climate change. “There's this real pessimism about the future,” says psychologist Susan Clayton of Ohio's College of Wooster, coauthor of the new report as well as a previous extensive one on climate change and mental health. Climate change …

Weather Disasters Have Become 5 Times As Common, Thanks In Part To Climate Change
3 years, 4 months ago

Weather Disasters Have Become 5 Times As Common, Thanks In Part To Climate Change

NPR  

Weather Disasters Have Become 5 Times As Common, Thanks In Part To Climate Change Enlarge this image toggle caption Karl Mondon/Digital First Media/The Mercury News via Getty Images Karl Mondon/Digital First Media/The Mercury News via Getty Images Climate change has helped drive a fivefold increase in the number of weather-related disasters in the last 50 years, according to a new …

The Antidote To Climate Dread
3 years, 4 months ago

The Antidote To Climate Dread

Huff Post  

The reality of the climate crisis is dire — and it can be overwhelming. “We are now in an all-hands-on-deck moment,” said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of Yale University’s program on climate change communication. There are small things we can do, but governments and corporations have much more power than single researchers and individual communities.” Rivera-Collazo said she’s “particularly worried” for …

Extreme weather puts pressure on nations to expand climate action
3 years, 4 months ago

Extreme weather puts pressure on nations to expand climate action

China Daily  

Police officers help firefighters to extinguish a fire in Thrakomakedones, near Mount Parnitha, north of Athens, on Aug 7, 2021. It was one of a series of extreme weather events around the world that added weight to the UN's latest climate warning that things will get much worse if governments do not take drastic action. The extreme weather provided the …

Extreme weather events renew focus on climate change as scientists update forecasts
3 years, 5 months ago

Extreme weather events renew focus on climate change as scientists update forecasts

India Today  

As scientists gather online to finalize a long-awaited update on global climate research, recent extreme weather events across the globe highlight the need for more research on how it will play out, especially locally. "It's not so much that climate change itself is proceeding faster than expected -- the warming is right in line with model predictions from decades ago," …

Study: Sharp rise in extreme weather events in last 50 yrs
3 years, 10 months ago

Study: Sharp rise in extreme weather events in last 50 yrs

Hindustan Times  

A new paper by scientists from ministry of earth sciences has revealed a sharp rise in extreme weather events in India in the past 50 years, although the overall mortality due to extreme weather events has been declining, pointing to both the challenge posed by the climate crisis, and the fact that governments have become better at saving lives, although …

Let’s talk about the climate apocalypse (opinion)
4 years, 2 months ago

Let’s talk about the climate apocalypse (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: John D. Sutter is a CNN contributor and a National Geographic Explorer. But I fear that as we become increasingly trapped in a revolving door of climate-related disasters, we’ll become numb – more numb than we already are – to the magnitude of what’s actually happening. This fear is a feeling that – as my years of reporting …

Climate change makes freak Siberian heat 600 times likelier
4 years, 5 months ago

Climate change makes freak Siberian heat 600 times likelier

LA Times  

Children play in a lake near the Siberian town of Verkhoyansk, where the temperature reached 100.4 degrees last month. Nearly impossible without man-made global warming, this year’s freak Siberian heat wave is producing climate change’s most flagrant footprint of extreme weather, a new flash study says. They found that without climate change, the type of prolonged heat that hit Siberia …

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