We must break the habit of speaking of climate change as a future threat. https://t.co/PaUcaLGmXt
— Anand Giridharadas @ The.Ink (@AnandWrites) July 15, 2021
Germany’s worst flooding for years has left 58 people dead with dozens missing following days of heavy rain that senior politicians are linking to climate change https://t.co/KTUjaGeFV2
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) July 15, 2021
'Catastrophic' flooding kills at least 33 in Germany, and at least four in neighbouring Belgium, with dozens more missing https://t.co/49FkObKWd0
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 15, 2021
Happening now: severe weather emergencies in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Germany! Persistent and heavy rainfall events have led to unprecedented rainfall totals, causing catastrophic floods. Many are dead and missing in western Germany. pic.twitter.com/MNnrEk6OUc
— Dr Neil Entwistle (@SalfordHydro) July 15, 2021
Overnight #flooding has caused devastation across parts of western Europe, claiming dozens of lives. Scientists say that #ClimateChange has a role in it. https://t.co/o8ezjO61TP
— DW Global Ideas & Environment (@dw_environment) July 15, 2021
🌧️Are extreme weather events becoming more frequent?
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 15, 2021
Extreme weather events are hitting Europe more frequently as climate change warms the continent, experts agree.
Europe’s average temperature is roughly 2 degrees warmer than it was at the start of the twentieth century pic.twitter.com/K3s4pK5Dzp
What is triggering the extreme floods in Europe and London?
— Al Bundy (@anonoccu1) July 15, 2021
Extreme weather events are hitting Europe more frequently as climate change warms the continent, experts agree.#ClimateCrisis #climatechangehttps://t.co/i0mj3HhQ7a
❌Globally, sea levels have increased by around 20cm since 1900 – this could jump to 80cm in Europe by the end of the century as global ice caps melt, according to the European Environment Agencyhttps://t.co/GKo7Zw4hkg pic.twitter.com/qw5OydKwEA
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 15, 2021
Flash floods in #london pic.twitter.com/Ii113J7u0S
— Adla Moukarzel (@Adlamassoud) July 12, 2021
#ClimateChange made the heatwave in North America 150 times more likely, according to research from the World Weather Attribution group https://t.co/Vjd2YAXyg3 via @financialtimes
— Sophie (@sophthirkell) July 15, 2021
About a third of poll respondents said extreme weather fueled by climate change influences their decision of where to live https://t.co/kWkctxBDui
— National Geographic (@NatGeo) July 15, 2021
Scientists say that the historic West Coast heatwave is a warning of what’s to come in the future with climate change. #BCwx #BCheat #BCheatwave
— The Weather Network (@weathernetwork) July 15, 2021
As climate change worsens extreme weather events like the record-breaking heat in the Pacific Northwest last month, another concern looms — that the impact on companies from global warming could incinerate people's retirement savings. https://t.co/UMIkTILBEF
— WJZ | CBS Baltimore (@wjz) July 15, 2021
The link between human-created climate change and extreme weather couldn’t be any clearer. https://t.co/RpGoqnhgiP
— Climate Reality (@ClimateReality) July 14, 2021
Elizabeth Wolkovich, a biologist at the University of British Columbia researching the impact of climate change on vineyards, says rising temperatures are changing the taste of wine itself https://t.co/Q8hnbRUMNI
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) July 15, 2021
A report released Thursday predicts that the flooding of New York subway stations will become more frequent, with more than 20% of them at risk from storm surges https://t.co/vtVqrmqq4q
— Bloomberg (@business) July 16, 2021
"Climate catastrophe is a slow shattering of the stable patterns that governed the weather, the seasons, species and migrations, all the beautifully orchestrated systems of the holocene era we exited when we manufactured the anthropocene."—Rebecca Solnit https://t.co/Py5LWO4iO7
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) July 12, 2021
Climate change is helping Atlantic hurricanes pack more of a punch, making them rainier, intensifying them faster and helping the storms linger longer even after landfall. https://t.co/Ug1K4U2nDk
— Science News (@ScienceNews) July 16, 2021
In Opinion
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 15, 2021
"There is a discordance between the pitch of the rhetoric on climate and the normalcy of the lives many of us live," Ezra Klein writes. "I don’t see that as a revelation of political misdirection so much as a constant failure of human nature."https://t.co/07ZUkWQxHK
By the mid-2030s, the lunar cycle will be set to amplify Earth’s tides. When combined with rising sea levels, the cumulative result is a significant increase in high-tide flooding, researchers find. https://t.co/mwg7MOrjg9
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 16, 2021
Deadly heatwaves, floods, storms, wildfires, droughts, crop failures…
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) July 15, 2021
This is not “the new normal”.
We’re at the very beginning of a climate and ecological emergency, and extreme weather events will only become more and more frequent.#FaceTheClimateEmergency
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