Here at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), we started referring to the period between June and October in the Northern hemisphere as “Danger Season” in 2022. But summer 2023 was when the climate crisis got real for a lot of people. We all felt some impact of it—blistering heat, unprecedented flooding, oppressive wildfire smoke, extreme drought, or some combination—and farmers and farm workers felt the effects in particularly damaging ways.
As farmers and farm workers recover from a growing season that NASA named the hottest on record (even as it may be among the coolest we’ll see going forward), we need to talk about what lawmakers can do about it in legislation they’re drafting right now.
The Inflation Reduction Act is directing $20B toward climate-resilient agriculture
Reducing heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions through policies that…
Read the full article originally published at blog.ucsusa.org.