WE'RE LIVING IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS, WEATHER DISASTERS HITTING 5X MORE OFTEN THAN 50 YRS AGO

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- President Joe Biden tours a neighborhood flooded by Hurricane Ida in Manville, New Jersey.
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- Daily Kos, Sept. 7, 2021.

As of Tuesday, there are still over 400,000 people without power in Louisiana. The death toll for Hurricane Ida is now at 68 as the devastation is tallied from a single storm that brought floods and destruction across a wide swath of states. That’s just one storm. One storm, from one hurricane season, in one country.

The same week Ida passed through the Eastern United States, the Dixie Fire blazed in California. It’s still burning, Having consumed over 900,000 acres and far from being fully contained, that fire is almost certain to top the previous record holder. That previous biggest fire in recorded history burned a million acres—in 2020. Of the top 20 wildfires recorded across the nation, CNN reports that all but three have come in the last 20 years.

Those fires are persisting inside a megadrought that has made the western half of the United States drier than at any point in the last 1,200 years. Across the West, reservoirs are at record lows with limited water available to agriculture and falling short of predictions. Despite this, Utah is building a billion-dollar pipeline to siphon still more water away from a lake that is already at record lows.

Adding to the misery are frequent heat waves that in 2021 have brought what may be record temperatures to Death Valley and broiled the normally temperate Northwest. Salem, Oregon, reached 117 degrees in the first days of July, while nearby Portland notched two days above 112. It was just one fragment of a global phenomenon that made July 2021 the hottest month in the last 142 years of records...

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