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Climate change's coal-smudged fingerprints

A survey of heat-related news from across the West

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Jul 09, 2024
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🥵 Aridification Watch 🐫

Writing about weather in the climate crisis-era is like navigating an obstacle course littered with critics. One faction chides me if I write about insane rainstorms and flash flooding without attributing them to human-caused climate change; another blasts me for bringing up climate change too often, whether it’s to explain an e…

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