Global scorching

Wildfire smoke blankets much of North America Sunday, August 20,2023. Wildfires rage in the Southwest even as Hurricane Hilary slams into the coast, bringing torrential rainfall.

20 August 2023

Unrelenting wildfires, torrential rainfall bring new meaning to “unprecedented” extreme weather events

Week after week we’re alerted to some “unprecedented” extreme weather event. Yet the corporate media references the climate emergency barely at all.

Temperatures across much of the United States are forecast to reach or exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit through July 17.

But summer is supposed to be hot

Wildfire smoke smothers North America on June 7, 2023. (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

It’s World Oceans Day, but wildfires and smoke dominate the climate narrative

The latest book about the climate emergency highlights how the weakening Gulf Stream, which carries a prodigious amount of heat from the tropics to the seas around Europe, could collapse and trigger powerful winter storms.

In new climate book, Hothouse Earth, scientist warns worst is yet to come

The 1974 holiday classic "The Year Without a Santa Claus" introduced us to Mother Nature's incorrigible son, Heat Miser, who controlled hot weather on Earth. But the rapidly increasing heating resulting from ever-rising greenhouse gas emissions is no laughing matter, as humanity careens toward more extreme weather events faster than expected.

Global scorching ahead of schedule. Well done, humanity.

The 2013 Alder Fire (pictured above) in Yellowstone National Park was one of five at the time caused by lightning strikes and fueled by warmer and drier weather and spread by strong winds. Lightning is attributed to 55 percent of burned acreage between 2016 and 2020. In 2020, California's largest fires were caused by lightning.

How climate and wildfire risk are linked

Members of the Texas National Guard help Houston residents from areas flooded by Hurricane Harvey, which swamped the region with record rainfall exasperated by the climate emergency.

Human-caused global heating attributable to half or more of Hurricane Harvey damages

The controversial climate documentary, "Planet of the Humans," with its not-so-subtle nod to "Planet of the Apes" pictured above (Charlton Heston as Taylor and Maurice Evans as Dr. Zeus) puts humanity -- and especially the environmental movement -- on trial.

About that ‘Planet of the Humans’ controversy: Fact? Fiction? Both? Neither?

Demonstrators gather in front of the Colorado State Capitol building for a "reopen Colorado" rally in Denver on April 19.

Climate and COVID-19: Other stories

Climate, shlimate. Cat-lazy world leaders continue to nap as climate crisis worsens. Yawn.

1 December 2019

Climate shlimate – yet another urgent climate warning for “leaders” to ignore

Another day, yet another authoritative warning from scientists the climate catastrophe is imminent. For how much longer will world leaders fail us?

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