Katharine Hayhoe
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climate scientist
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distinguished professor & chair, Texas Tech
chief scientist, The Nature Conservancy
board member, Smithsonian NMNH
alum, UToronto and UIUC
author, Saving Us
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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...