The start of summer now includes increasingly dire weather-prediction reports warning about the extreme impacts of climate change. These impacts — deadly heat waves, destructive hurricanes and wildfires — are shaping our society and our future, but we can still change course.
As summer 2024 heats up, we’re rising to meet the realities of climate change, from mitigating the impacts of extreme weather to helping advance the clean energy transition.
In 2024 alone:
A photo of Hurricane Ian in the Caribbean Sea, taken on September 26, 2022 from the International Space Station. (NASA)
How Extreme Weather Causes Harm
Every extreme weather disaster creates ripple effects that affect communities, jobs, public health, and the environment. Here are just a few:
Chemical Disasters
On the Gulf Coast, which houses roughly half of the country’s oil and gas refineries, the danger…
Read the full article originally published at earthjustice.org.