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COVID-19: A 20/20-vision crystal ball into our climate future

GreenBiz

When the coronavirus pandemic can be claimed to be under control, it is likely to have made some economies retreat a decade and left millions of families in pain for the loss of loved ones, with many more millions enduring health and other consequences for some time to come. Unlike with COVID, no vaccine can kill climate change.

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COVID-19: A 20/20-vision crystal ball into our climate future

AGreenLiving

But all this self-inflicted pain is nothing compared to all the damage climate change can cause. But all this self-inflicted pain is nothing compared to all the damage climate change can cause. Once triggered — and many believe we already live in the realm of climate changed — there is no way back.

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Waves of Abandonment

DeSmogBlog

This story originally appeared in Grist & The Texas Observer and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas.

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Waves of Abandonment

DeSmogBlog

This story originally appeared in Grist & The Texas Observer and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas.

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First come floods, then flowers, then fire: the ‘benevolent dictator’ of Southern California’s climate

Grist

Here’s how pretty much all rain arrives in the desert climate of San Diego County, the region of 3 million people at the border of California and Mexico. Under the right atmospheric and oceanic conditions, a trail of water vapor gets yanked up into the sky from the swath of the Pacific Ocean lying in the tropics by a cyclone.