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Recent polling paints a mixed picture of whether voters will assign importance to climate issues – and how much – as they decide how to vote in hundreds of congressional and state races across the country.
NCAR, U. of Aukland
Global warming is undoubtedly a factor in recent heat waves, droughts and floods, sometimes one on top of the other. But how increasing extremes are related can bewilder the public and policymakers.
Carbon Brief
Crossing a “tipping point” threshold causes large, potentially irreversible changes in the Earth system. A study found a “significant likelihood” that several thresholds will be crossed if warming exceeds 1.5 C.
Rice University
The Inflation Reduction Act was just the first step. Two outcomes matter – how deeply U.S. actions slash domestic emissions and how effectively they cut clean technologies’ costs so other nations can slash emissions too.
Yale Climate Connections
In Galveston, an astounding 24 of 31 nights set record-warm minimum temperatures last month. The average for daily highs in Texas was a withering 100.2, making July the state’s second-hottest month on record by that measure.
The Guardian
Blistering heat, stronger storms, droughts, floods and fires are putting food production at risk around the world. Recent examples include wheat in Texas, chiles in Mexico, wine in France and coffee in Brazil.
The Guardian
Workers within industries that prop up fossil fuels said they could no longer ignore the climate crisis. So they quit. Three of them who did reveal their experiences.
How fracking billionaires, Ben Shapiro, and PragerU built a climate crisis–denial empire. Vice
Houston keeps paving over rain-absorbent Katy prairie. Houston Chronicle
Democrats’ climate bill compromises raise environmental justice fears. Washington Post
Wettest 24 hours in nearly a century for Dallas-Fort Worth. Yale Climate Connections
In Central Texas, wind power blows away political stereotypes. Houston Chronicle
Climate change may have doubled the number of Houston homes flooded by Hurricane Harvey . Yale E360
Post Harvey, 1 in 8 Houston homes permitted are in floodplains. Houston Chronicle
How Houston has changed five years after Hurricane Harvey. Houston Public Media
The last days of Isle de Jean Charles: A Louisiana tribe’s struggle to escape the rising sea. NOLA.com
Monsoon storms bring flooding, surges in rivers. NM Political Report
Record-setting wildfire in New Mexico declared contained. AP
Methane emissions from US shallow offshore platforms exceed those on land, study finds. Reuters
Greenland ice sheet set to trigger nearly a foot in sea level rise. Washington Post
Pakistan flooding deaths pass 1,000 in ‘climate catastrophe’. AP
California EV mandate finds a receptive auto industry. New York Times
Drought in the West threatens future of Glen Canyon dam and Lake Powell. Deseret News
‘It’s a deal with the devil’: outrage in Appalachia over Manchin’s ‘vile’ pipeline plan. The Guardian
Heatwave in China is the most severe ever recorded in the world. New Scientist
Up to 1 in 6 US tree species threatened with extinction, study finds. Washington Post
Democrats designed the climate law to be a game changer. Here’s how. New York Times
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