Ida Now a Mean Cat 5
CNN: New Orleans has received over 65 inches of rain so far this year, their second wettest on record to this point of the year. This will make flooding in the region worse as Hurricane Ida approaches....
View ArticleIda Slams Louisiana – First Look
Bob Henson and Jeff Masters for Yale Climate Connections: Category 4 Hurricane Ida struck a catastrophic blow on Louisiana, making landfall at the key oil industry hub of Port Fourchon at 11:55 a.m....
View ArticleIn Afghanistan and Elsewhere, Climate Multiplies War Impacts
New York Times: Parts of Afghanistan have warmed twice as much as the global average. Spring rains have declined, most worryingly in some of the country’s most important farmland. Droughts are more...
View ArticleIda Update
Lots of Ida evaluation coming in, I suspect that, like after Katrina, we won’t get the larger picture for a day or two. Many good reports available, this one from CNBC.
View ArticleNOLA without Power as Heat Settles In
As Climate change continues to break systems, never more clear that a new infrastructure and energy generation system is needed, and now, fortunately, possible.
View ArticleIda’s Remnants Will Bring Flood Threat to East
“Where climate change gets you most, is when you take a 150 year event, and then it suddenly becomes a 50 year event” – Prof Kerry Emanuel of MIT, and others, explain above. In Ida’s remains, disaster...
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