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At least 63 killed following four days of rainstorms in Pakistan - Los Angeles Times (Apr 17, 2024) |
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Apr 17, 2024 · Lightning and heavy rains have led to 14 more deaths in Pakistan, officials said Wednesday, bringing the death toll from four days of extreme weather to at least 63, as the heaviest downpour in decades flooded villages on the country’s southwestern coast. Flash floods have also killed dozens of people in neighboring Afghanistan.
In Pakistan, most of the deaths were reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in the country’s northwest. Collapsing buildings have killed 32 people, including 15 children and five women, said Khursheed Anwar, a spokesman for the Disaster Management Authority. Dozens more were also injured in the region, where 1,370 houses were damaged, Anwar ... Read more ...
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L.A. County faces $12.5 billion in climate costs through 2040, study says - Los Angeles Times (Apr 04, 2024) |
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Apr 04, 2024 · A first-of-its-kind report has estimated that Los Angeles County must invest billions of dollars through 2040 to protect residents from worsening climate hazards, including extreme heat, increasing precipitation, worsening wildfires, rising sea levels and climate-induced public health threats.
The report, published this week by the nonprofit Center for Climate Integrity, identified 14 different climate adaptation measures that authors calculated would cost L.A. taxpayers at least $12.5 billion over the next 15 years, or approximately $780 million per year. The vast majority of those costs - more than $9 billion - will be incurred by local municipal governments, including the ... Read more ...
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Meet the writers pitching Hollywood studios on climate change stories - Los Angeles Times (Mar 28, 2024) |
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Mar 28, 2024 · Nicole Conlan writes jokes for Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show.” But her master’s in urban planning from USC and her experiences growing up in Colorado surrounded by skiers were just as relevant to her task on the Universal Studios lot last week.
The Emmy-nominated writer had 10 minutes to pitch a studio executive on her half-hour climate change sitcom. She described it as similar to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” only set at a Colorado environmental group, poking fun at a character who gets involved in climate advocacy for selfish reasons and must slowly learn to care.
“Just a quick disclaimer: I named the character Nicole because I ... Read more ...
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Extreme heat is deadly. Californians need to pay up to protect themselves - Los Angeles Times (Mar 26, 2024) |
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Mar 26, 2024 · “If there is one idea in this book that might save your life, it is this: The human body, like all living things, is a heat machine. Just being alive generates heat. But if your body gets too hot too fast - it doesn’t matter if the heat comes from the outside on a hot day or the inside from a raging fever - you are in big trouble.”
So writes journalist Jeff Goodell in “The Heat Will Kill You First,” an eye-opening, blood-curdling investigation into the many ways that rising temperatures from fossil fuel combustion are making our planet increasingly unlivable. Jeff is one of several authors I’ll be interviewing next month at the L.A. Times Festival of Books, as part of a ... Read more ...
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California monster blizzard batters Tahoe, Mammoth, Sierra amid avalanche warnings - Los Angeles Times (Mar 01, 2024) |
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Mar 01, 2024 · The most powerful California blizzard of the season pounded the Sierra Nevada with gusts of up to 190 mph, while heavy snow Sunday forced the closure of key roads to the Lake Tahoe and Mammoth Mountain areas.
A rare blizzard warning was extended through Monday morning for the Lake Tahoe area, and until Sunday night for the Mammoth Mountain area. Key roads to Mammoth Mountain from Southern California, and to the northern Tahoe area from Sacramento and Reno, remained shut down Sunday afternoon.
Gusts greater than 100 mph were expected on the Sierra ridges through early Monday, according to the weather service. At Donner Pass along Interstate 80, an additional 18 inches of ... Read more ...
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L.A. may not get another wet winter for a while. We should prepare for drier times - Los Angeles Times (Feb 08, 2024) |
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Feb 08, 2024 · It’s the second straight year of above-average rain and snow in California, amid the state’s driest period in 1,200 years. The respite from drought is certainly welcome, despite flooding, mudslides and associated miseries. Now meteorologists and oceanographers are watching possible La Niña conditions develop in the Pacific, perhaps signaling a return to drier times.
It’s an appropriate time to take stock - of how we weathered the last two winters, what we’ve learned and what’s ahead.
Climate & Environment
The same flood-control system that protected L.A. from the atmospheric rivers also saw tens of billions of gallons of stormwater flush to the sea.
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Hate the storm? Then start getting serious about climate change - Los Angeles Times (Feb 06, 2024) |
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Feb 06, 2024 · You know how oil and gas pollution is supposed to bring not only hotter heat waves, drier droughts and bigger wildfires, but also more intense storms? Well, that’s what we’re experiencing in Los Angeles and across California this week, as an atmospheric river wallops the state with record rainfall, dangerous floods, major mudslides and power outages - with more to come.
Although it’s too soon to say exactly how much responsibility global warming bears for the storm - let’s hope scientists conduct an attribution study before too long - this is exactly the kind of thing climate researchers have long predicted.
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Hate the storm? Then start getting serious about climate change - Los Angeles Times (Feb 06, 2024) |
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Feb 06, 2024 · You know how oil and gas pollution is supposed to bring not only hotter heat waves, drier droughts and bigger wildfires, but also more intense storms? Well, that’s what we’re experiencing in Los Angeles and across California this week, as an atmospheric river wallops the state with record rainfall, dangerous floods, major mudslides and power outages - with more to come.
Although it’s too soon to say exactly how much responsibility global warming bears for the storm - let’s hope scientists conduct an attribution study before too long - this is exactly the kind of thing climate researchers have long predicted.
You're reading Boiling Point
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El Niño and climate change are supercharging incoming storm, SoCal's biggest this winter - Los Angeles Times (Feb 02, 2024) |
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Feb 02, 2024 · Southern California is bracing for its biggest storm of the season, which is slated to deliver potentially damaging and life-threatening rain, wind and flooding to the region.
But the powerful atmospheric river - worrisome enough on its own - is being supercharged by climate change and El Niño, which together are warming ocean waters, upping the odds of significant downpours and offering a preview of the state’s future in a warming world, experts say.
The incoming storm is feeding off unusually warm waters between California and Hawaii where a significant marine heat wave has persisted for months, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA.
Last year - the ... Read more ...
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Biden's Western solar plan sounds scary. But it's better than climate change - Los Angeles Times (Feb 01, 2024) |
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Feb 01, 2024 · A single federal agency oversees nearly a quarter-billion acres of public lands - and those acres could play a key role in fighting climate change by hosting vast fields of solar panels and wind turbines that limit our need to burn fossil fuels.
The American public could embrace this latest evolution of our shared domain.
Or we could reject further industrial development of our public lands and instead preserve them for the sake of wildlife habitat, healthy ecosystems and scenic hikes - while requiring renewable energy companies to find other places to build.
So which should we choose: clean energy or conservation?
Right now, President Biden is trying to ... Read more ...
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