Deadly extreme weather year for U.S. as carbon emissions soar
The United States staggered through a steady onslaught of deadly billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in an extra hot 2021, while the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions last year jumped 6% because of surges in coal and long-haul trucking, putting America further behind its 2030 climate change cutting goal. Three different reports released Monday, though not directly connected, paint a picture of a U.S. in 2021 struggling with global warming and its efforts to curb it. … Last year’s weather disasters included a record shattering heat wave in the Pacific Northwest where temperatures hit 116 degrees in Portland … mudslides and a persistent drought and lots of wildfires.
Related articles:
- Phys.org: California’s ‘climate whiplash’ has been worsening for 50 years and will continue
- The Conversation: 2021’s biggest climate and weather disasters cost the U.S. $145 billion – here’s what climate science says about them in 5 essential reads
- ABC 10 – Sacramento: Warming atmosphere is driving extremes like record-setting snow in the Sierra
- Washington Post: Ocean warmth sets record high in 2021 due to greenhouse gas emissions
- CA Natural Resources Agency: California Releases Draft Extreme Heat Action Plan to Protect Communities Across the State
- KCRA – Sacramento: West Coast Megadrought Threatening Food Production, Farmers