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Rapid climate action is needed: comparing heat vs. COVID-19-related mortality
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We’re the mayors of Paris, Milan and Phoenix. The heat crisis has us all facing the same question | Emmanuel Grégoire, Giuseppe Sala and Kate Gallego
Our three cities are learning from each other about how to protect residents. These climate policies are also public health measures
Natasha Walter: We’ve gone from climate denial to something worse – climate fatalism
The message in the western media, as global heating becomes undeniable, seems now to be that nothing can be done. That is unacceptable – especially for those in developing countries who are suffering so greatly from the crisis we created
Majority of US voters link extreme weather to climate crisis, study finds
Top Democrat says findings show public ‘way ahead of the politicians’ as Trump dismisses global heating as ‘hoax’
As Toronto Temperatures Rise, Inequalities Widen | The Local
Climate change causes heat waves, but the city’s politics, policies, and design determine who suffers most.
Political Scenarios for Climate Disaster - Dissent Magazine
In the Global North we often act as if our future will be a warmer version of today: liberal capitalism, plus flood insurance, minus coral reefs. That future is a fantasy.
How the UK's extreme heat is shifting the conversation about air-con
Should we embrace air conditioning despite its costs and consequences?
Some Ontario students can’t escape extreme heat | The Narwhal
As the school year begins, some students in Peel Region are feeling the impacts of climate change in the classroom
Global Warming Is Rapidly Accelerating, New Paper Finds
A new study found the first statistically significant evidence that global warming is ramping up at a horrifying rate.
We’re going to miss the 1.5 °C climate target. Now what?
The United Nations Environment Program released a report earlier this month saying the world – which is already experiencing roughly 1.3˚C of warming – will miss the 1.5˚C climate change target set by international negotiators over a decade ago.
Summer’s new normal is a hazard that’s testing Europe’s climate resilience
As people across Europe are having to acclimatise to an unprecedented heatwave, coordinated responses for tackling extreme heat need to come from the top, and there’s no time to lose.
It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now
The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is
Home - ClimateAction.Tech
The climate crisis is happening all around us. As tech workers, we can use our skills to take and accelerate climate action.
Brutal June heat wave killed as many as 14,000 Europeans
POLITICO calculations show thousands of excess deaths across six worst-hit countries.
Hotheads
Steady temperatures are the preserve of the rich. The billionaire press wants everyone else to suffer.
Here’s relevant paper on #metascience lit from 2018, 7 years and a pandemic ago. This hasn’t been hypothetical or hard to see. During the pandemic science reform was weaponized by Ioannidis, Prasad, Bhattacharya, etc and lives were lost. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1708276114
Crisis or self-correction: Rethinking media narratives about the well-being of science | PNAS
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