HEAT
Climate change is making heat waves more extreme, more frequent, and longer lasting, resulting in record breaking extremes: June 2019 was the hottest June on record, July 2019 the world’s hottest month ever recorded, August the second-hottest August and September 2019 the earth’s hottest September on record. Four straight months of near-record and record global heat. The Trump administration forecasts a disastrous 7-degree rise in temperatures by 2100 and, rather than announcing steps to combat this eventuality, has instead vowed to exit the Paris accord and called climate change a hoax, dismantling dozens of regulations previously enacted to slow climate change.
Extreme heat contributes to wildfire conditions, exacerbates drought, and endangers health.
NRDC has a heat map that is searchable by address. C2ES’ Resilience Strategies for Extreme Heat provide solutions for adaptation that be implemented on both an individual and community level.
CREDIT: NASA’s Earth Observatory
