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Heat wave builds across West after hottest June on record in U.S. - The Washington Post
Heat wave builds across West after hottest June on record in U.S. - The Washington Post
Last week, a “thousand-year” heat wave baked the Pacific Northwest and adjacent British Columbia with widespread highs topping 100 degrees, resulting in a death toll in the hundreds. The Canadian province’s Lytton climbed to 121 degrees and established new national records three days in a row before the town burned in heat-intensified wildfires. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Friday that the heat wave helped the United States clinch its hottest June on record. Eight states had their hottest Junes, including Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah.
·washingtonpost.com·
Heat wave builds across West after hottest June on record in U.S. - The Washington Post
The Record Temperatures Enveloping The West Are Not Your Average Heat Wave | Northwest Public Broadcasting
The Record Temperatures Enveloping The West Are Not Your Average Heat Wave | Northwest Public Broadcasting
But this record-setting heat wave’s remarkable power, size and unusually early appearance is giving meteorologists and climate experts yet more cause for concern about the routinization of extreme weather in an era of climate change. These sprawling, persistent high-pressure zones popularly called “heat domes” are relatively common in later summer months. This current system is different.
·nwpb.org·
The Record Temperatures Enveloping The West Are Not Your Average Heat Wave | Northwest Public Broadcasting
Biden Wants A Civilian Climate Corps. Here's How It Might Work : NPR
Biden Wants A Civilian Climate Corps. Here's How It Might Work : NPR
It's a tough time to be a young person. COVID-19 has robbed many of them of experiences and plans. Their unemployment rate remains high. College enrollment is down. To address those concerns and bolster preparedness for a warming world, President Biden wants to retool and relaunch one of the country's most celebrated government programs: the Civilian Conservation Corps.
·npr.org·
Biden Wants A Civilian Climate Corps. Here's How It Might Work : NPR
Joanne Chory is harnessing plants to stop climate change - Washington Post
Joanne Chory is harnessing plants to stop climate change - Washington Post
Human-caused climate change was putting humanity’s future in peril, she said in recorded remarks. Survival would depend on Earth’s original carbon-capture machines, the most effective tools for getting rid of greenhouse gases. People needed to find new ways to grow plants — and soon.
·washingtonpost.com·
Joanne Chory is harnessing plants to stop climate change - Washington Post
Launching Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate | USDA
Launching Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate | USDA
Once officially launched, AIM for Climate will catalyze greater investment in agricultural R&D and innovation to help to raise global ambition and underpin more rapid and transformative climate action in all countries, including by enabling science-based and data-driven decision and policy-making.
·usda.gov·
Launching Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate | USDA
"The most significant piece of climate legislation the state has ever considered" - Washington State Wire
"The most significant piece of climate legislation the state has ever considered" - Washington State Wire
SB 5126 passed out of the Senate Ways and Means Committee last night, bringing one of the legislature’s most ambitious pieces of climate legislation ever considered one step closer to enactment. The bill creates a system referred to as “cap and invest” where funds generated from auctioning the rights or licenses to create carbon emissions will be invested into capital infrastructure. In the case of the current bill, this would equal between $272m and $551m per year dedicated to transportation infrastructure starting in FY 2023.
·washingtonstatewire.com·
"The most significant piece of climate legislation the state has ever considered" - Washington State Wire
Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The Northwest Snowpack Trend of the Past Fifty Years: The Truth May Surprise You
Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The Northwest Snowpack Trend of the Past Fifty Years: The Truth May Surprise You
The media is full of stories suggesting that global warming has greatly reduced the mountain snowpack in the Pacific Northwest...Yes, there are some random, low snow-depth years (like 2015), but no trend is apparent during the period when global warming has been greatest.
·cliffmass.blogspot.com·
Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The Northwest Snowpack Trend of the Past Fifty Years: The Truth May Surprise You
Native American producers critical to future of U.S. food system and fighting climate change – U.S. Farmers and Ranchers In Action
Native American producers critical to future of U.S. food system and fighting climate change – U.S. Farmers and Ranchers In Action
With over 59 million acres of Native-operated farms across over 30 states within the United States, Tribal Nations and Native producers are perhaps the single most underappreciated resource for sustainable, rural economic development in the U.S.
·usfarmersandranchers.org·
Native American producers critical to future of U.S. food system and fighting climate change – U.S. Farmers and Ranchers In Action
Forecast for spring: Nasty drought worsens for much of US
Forecast for spring: Nasty drought worsens for much of US
With nearly two-thirds of the United States abnormally dry or worse, the government’s spring forecast offers little hope for relief, especially in the West where a devastating megadrought has taken root and worsened.
·apnews.com·
Forecast for spring: Nasty drought worsens for much of US
‘We don’t have a day to waste’ on climate mitigation, says Vilsack | Successful Farming
‘We don’t have a day to waste’ on climate mitigation, says Vilsack | Successful Farming
U.S. agriculture faces a triple imperative — market, environment, and income — in responding to climate change, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Thursday, his first day on the job. “We don’t have a day to waste on this,” he told reporters while indicating that the USDA will move at deliberate speed to identify and support successful mitigation practices.
·agriculture.com·
‘We don’t have a day to waste’ on climate mitigation, says Vilsack | Successful Farming
House Ag panel will start with climate change | Successful Farming
House Ag panel will start with climate change | Successful Farming
With the resolution of a disputed election in New York State, the House Agriculture Committee is ready for action with climate change as its top issue. “Everything will tie into climate change,” says the committee chief of staff, and the first hearing of the year will focus on climate change’s impact on agriculture.
·agriculture.com·
House Ag panel will start with climate change | Successful Farming