Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images News / Getty Images Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter in your inbox. In Washington, D.C., this week, temperatures are reaching 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Parts of the South and Midwest of the United States aren’t faring much better, and in many locations it’s been this way for weeks. […]
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Photo by 3dfoto/iStock / Getty Images Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter in your inbox. At Covering Climate Now, we believe climate change is a defining issue in this fall’s elections, at all levels of government. In the coming weeks, we will announce specific plans for how we hope to help newsrooms respond, […]
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Meteorologist Al Roker of NBC News, a CCNow partner, reported today that this past June was the hottest ever recorded and 2020 is on track to be the second hottest ever, year to date. “June 2020 is the 426th consecutive month above average, that’s 35 years. Florida is on track for it’s hottest year on […]
Ahead of a storm season that is forecast to be especially active this summer both in the US and overseas, our latest “Talking Shop” brought together meteorologists and journalists to share best practices for reporting extreme weather events. Our panelists included John Morales, chief meteorologist at NBC News affiliate WTVJ in Miami; Kat Snow, science […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter in your inbox. The July 4th weekend was not a happy time to be an oil company executive or investor. On the East Coast, utilities cancelled plans for a 600-mile pipeline to convey fracked natural gas through West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. On Monday, a federal […]
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Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images News / Getty Images Extensive resources exist that break down how climate plays a role in each type of extreme weather event. Below, in excerpts taken from our friends at Climate Central, is a brief summary of how climate change affects various kinds of extreme weather events, as well as […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter in your inbox. **This special edition of the Climate Beat is a column by Covering Climate Now co-founders Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope. It was co-published today by The Guardian, The Nation, and the Columbia Journalism Review and is available for republication by all CCNow partners.** TO HEAR MANY JOURNALISTS TELL […]
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Attention Journalists: On Wednesday, July 1, at 12:00 noon Eastern time, Covering Climate Now will host our next Talking Shop webinar, co-hosted by Climate Central, about covering extreme weather events through a climate lens. You can RSVP below — we hope to see you there! Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes have become common in recent […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter in your inbox. Last week, hundreds of meteorologists and climate scientists around the world united to send a message about climate change. Under the “#ShowYourStripes” campaign, meteorologists used a simple blue-and-red striped pattern, designed by UK-climate scientist Ed Hawkins, to demonstrate global temperature rise over the years. […]
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