2024 will be a year to remember. As a result of fossil fuel-driven climate change, it’s on track to be the warmest year in recorded history. This heat fueled extreme weather events across the world, with most having significant impacts on human life and infrastructure and ecosystems.
In the United States, communities are still recovering from Hurricanes Beryl, Helene, and Milton. Each storm made history in its own right: Beryl was the earliest Category 5 storm on record in the Atlantic Ocean, Helene broke rainfall records in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, and destroyed tens of mountain communities, and Milton was the second fastest intensifying storm since 1979. I wrote about the unprecedented Hurricanes Helene and Milton in an earlier blogpost.
In other parts of the world, floods, heatwaves, wildfires, and droughts made headlines….
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