• Weather

Now NOAA Predicts So Many Hurricanes This Year They May Run Out of Names – YIKES

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• climate change
• hurricane
• NOAA
• science
• severe weather
• storms

Late last week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued its annual update on this year’s outlook for tropical hurricanes and they are now predicting the conditions are ripe for a huge season, with 19-25 named storms with sustained winds over  39 mph or greater, and even worse, 7 to 11 are expected to become hurricanes with winds of 74 mph or greater.

Why This Matters:  Hurricane season really gets serious only now, so the worst is still ahead of us. And the revised forecast is a big increase over what had been forecast at the beginning of the season when NOAA said it there was a 70% chance of 13 to 19 named storms.

• Politics

Brand New Polling Shows That Climate Moves Voters in Four Key States/Senate Races

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• #climatechange
• #climatecrisis
• #climatejustice
• clean energy
• clean energy jobs
• climate change
• poll

Progressive climate policies are more popular in key battleground states — Arizona, North Carolina, Iowa and Maine — than previously understood, according to fresh polling from Data for Progress.  Indeed, voters in these key Senate races want candidates to deliver “bold climate action” and consider the climate crisis a “Day 1 priority.”

Why This Matters:  In these four states, climate change is not a future problem — it is an emergency today.

• Air

Climate TRACE Project Aims to Identify Carbon Emissions Everywhere In Real Time

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• CO2
• environment
• flaring
• fracking
• Google
• premature births
• science

To comply with the Paris Climate Agreement it is crucial to actually track the emissions of greenhouse gases from places like power plants and factories. One newly announced project, Climate TRACE (Tracking Real-Time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions) Coalition, a coalition of nonprofits and tech companies backed by Al Gore, is working to identify emissions from every single specific source, Adele Peters reported in Fast Company yesterday.

Why This Matters: Currently, emissions data is often self-reported, and, according to Fast Company, it “can sometimes take years for the data to be gathered.”

• Ocean

Sunny Day Flooding Increasing Around the U.S. According to New Government Report

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• climate change
• coastline
• Flooding
• high tide
• Infrastructure
• science
• sea level rise
• sunny day flooding

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued its annual report on high tide (a.k.a. sunny day) flooding and found that high tide flooding happens twice as often as it did in 2000 due to sea-level rise.   Nineteen cities and towns along the East and Gulf Coasts broke or tied their all-time high tide flooding […]

• Weather

Heat Dome in Southwest Keeps Temps At or Near 100 Degrees for Days on End

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• COVID-19
• heat stroke
• heat wave
• hurricane
• La Niña

Temperatures are forecast to continue to exceed 110 degrees across the Southwestern U.S. this week — Phoenix might set a record for its all-time high. But it’s not only going to bake the South — the heatwave will cause 100-degree temperatures across the Ohio Valley and into the Mid-Atlantic. At the same time, NOAA forecast that a “La Niña” (cooling of the ocean near the equator in the Pacific) could develop later this year increasing the likelihood of fall hurricanes, as well as a colder winter for some parts of the country.

Why This Matters:  The very areas of the country that are being ravaged by COVID-19 are now experiencing the worst of the heatwave too.

• Ocean

The House Select Committee’s “Blueprint” for Solving the Climate Crisis

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• #ClimateActionNow
• #climatecrisis
• #SolvingTheClimateCrisis
• House Select Committee on Climate Crisis
• ocean

By Jean Flemma and Miriam Goldstein Historically, the ocean has been overlooked in the climate debate. That makes no sense. Ignoring the 71 percent of the planet that creates more than half the oxygen we breathe and has absorbed 90 percent of the excess heat created by climate change can hardly lead to a complete […]