
World May 16, 2022
How climate change is fueling more intense global wildfires
So far this year, more than 24,000 fires have burned across the U.S., the highest in at least 10 years.
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So far this year, more than 24,000 fires have burned across the U.S., the highest in at least 10 years.
While the amounts vary according to region, the inundation will lead to more coastal flooding and make tidal and storm surge more severe, a new U.S. report said.
Jet stream changes can cause winds to weaken, allowing dangerous weather to remain stuck in the same place for days or weeks at a time.
Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is just days old, but the extremes keep piling up.
Almost three-fourths of the western U.S. is gripped by drought so severe that it’s off the charts of anything recorded in the 20-year history of the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Global prices for food and crops in much of the world are at multi-year highs and there’s a culprit far larger than human commerce: La Nina.
The newest climate models can no longer find evidence of a temperature flip in the Atlantic every few decades, suggesting the phenomenon was caused by something else.