Climate Crisis Round-up: heat, drought, heat, floods, heat, fires, still more heat. The world is heating up due to the amount of carbon—chiefly in the form of carbon dioxide and methane—that humans are dumping into the atmosphere. The result is that land, sea, and air are all growing warmer, altering the way that both climate systems and ocean currents move around the planet. That’s the climate crisis, and it’s not something that’s happening in the future. It’s something that’s already well underway.
This past two weeks might have been a short course in the kind of things that we can expect to see as the climate warps to fit the unnaturally warmed planet. Across the nation, there were demonstrations of just how inconvenient—and how deadly—that warmer world is becoming. And why this is definitely a crisis, not just a change.
On the East Coast, the Atlantic hurricane season is already setting records. Tropical Storm Elsa picked up a name on July 1, making… https://ift.tt/3ARLHV1
source https://www.facebook.com/usaprogressive/photos/a.918883178274165/2015997578562714/?type=3
The post Timeline Photos appeared first on LiberalResistance.