wildfire season is year round now
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2020 Could’ve Been So Much Worse
A week into 2021, the lesson is already clear that things can get so, so much worse. As if to underscore that, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a report on Friday looking back on 2020, which shows that the U.S. saw a record number of billion-dollar-plus disasters. Yet the total losses weren’t…
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A Colorado Wildfire Just Climbed Over the Rockies. In October.
Every time you think you’ve seen it all as a climate reporter, the crisis throws something new at you. The latest point in case: the aptly-named East Troublesome Fire has traversed the continental divide in the Rocky Mountains at a time when snow is usually beginning to settle into the hinterlands.
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While the West Coast Burns, the U.S. Weather Agency Welcomes a Climate Change Denier Onboard
A U.S. scientific agency, tasked with monitoring weather, ocean and water conditions, has hired David Legates, a climate change denier who’s previously maintained that the sun is to blame for global warming and that the ocean’s rising CO2 levels are fine because it means we get bigger crabs, for a top position at the agency.…
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Where Do We Go From Here?
After Sen. Ed Markey won his primary in Massachusetts earlier this month, he had a message: “The age of incrementalism is over.”