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Katharine Hayhoe
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climate scientist posts 100% my own 🇨🇦 is my home distinguished professor & chair, Texas Tech chief scientist, The Nature Conservancy board member, Smithsonian NMNH alum, UToronto and UIUC author, Saving Us 🌉 bridged from 🦋 katharinehayhoe.com, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact

I also just received a flash flood notice on my own phone for where I live in central TX right now. We don’t live in a risky area so it’s more flooded roads than swept away houses – but the point is, these are not a once in 500 year type of event anymore. They’re happening all the time, everywhere.

As climate changes, wildfires across western NAm are getting bigger and a lot faster: and faster fires are much more dangerous and destructive.

The conditions @afreedma.bsky.social describes below are becoming less and less rare as climate change loads the weather dice against us.

LA's wildfires sparked by rare...