The consequences of climate change: more heat, more hurricane impacts
Greenhouse gas emissions have warmed the globe by about 1 degree F over the last 50 years.
Tag: Hurricane Dorian
You already can see the damage in Florida from rising sea levels
By Jim Carroll, environmental activist Rising seas haven’t flooded us out yet, but they’re already wreaking havoc in a batch ...
The tide is high, and getting higher, and higher, and higher
By Kimberly Miller, The Palm Beach Post A report calls last year’s high tide flooding “extraordinary.” The yearly rate of ...
It’s time to consider adding a ‘Category 6’ to the hurricane power scale
If you live in a hurricane-prone area, you probably know about the five-category Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. It defines Atlantic ...
What Washington can learn about climate action from South Florida
When U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked me to lead the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis this year, ...
South Florida will bear the brunt of climate crisis if the state and federal governments keep ignoring us
Environmental injustice comes in many forms. We see it when lead contaminates a community’s water supply. We see it in ...
With so much at risk, Florida must become a leader in addressing climate change
There have been five Category 5 hurricanes -- all of which made landfall -- in the Atlantic since 2016. Five. ...
If you believe in free market capitalism, you should believe in a carbon tax
You can think of it like the monthly fee you pay to your city to collect your garbage. If that ...
If the scale didn’t stop at 5, would Hurricane Dorian have been a Category 6 storm?
Dorian hit the Bahamas as one of the strongest storms in Atlantic history, once again whipping up social media banter ...
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