{"id":252392,"date":"2024-06-11T22:03:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T22:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/this-could-be-the-hottest-summer-ever-heres-what-were-doing-about-it\/"},"modified":"2024-06-11T23:36:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T23:36:28","slug":"this-could-be-the-hottest-summer-ever-heres-what-were-doing-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/this-could-be-the-hottest-summer-ever-heres-what-were-doing-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"This Could Be the Hottest Summer Ever. Here\u2019s What We\u2019re Doing About It."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The start of summer now includes increasingly dire weather-prediction reports warning about the extreme impacts of climate change. These impacts \u2014 deadly heat waves, destructive hurricanes and wildfires \u2014 are shaping our society and our future, but we can still change course.<\/p>\n<p>As summer 2024 heats up, we\u2019re rising to meet the realities of climate change, from mitigating the impacts of extreme weather to helping advance the clean energy transition.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024 alone:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39739\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-39739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Hurricane Ian in the Caribbean Sea, taken on September 26, 2022 from the International Space Station. (NASA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>How Extreme Weather Causes Harm<\/h2>\n<p>Every extreme weather disaster creates ripple effects that affect communities, jobs, public health, and the environment. Here are just a few:<\/p>\n<h3>Chemical Disasters<\/h3>\n<p>On the Gulf Coast, which houses roughly half of the country\u2019s oil and gas refineries, the danger&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/article\/this-could-be-the-hottest-summer-ever-heres-what-were-doing-about-it\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at earthjustice.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The start of summer now includes increasingly dire weather-prediction reports warning about the extreme impacts of climate change. These impacts \u2014 deadly heat waves, destructive hurricanes and wildfires \u2014 are shaping our society and our future, but we can still change course. As summer 2024 heats up, we\u2019re rising to meet the realities of climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":252393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This Could Be the Hottest Summer Ever. 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