After Climate Anxiety Comes Climate Whiplash: Green Insight

摘要

If you read climate news occasionally, you’ve likely experienced dread or anxiety.The science is straightforward: burning fossil fuels adds greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, which warms the planet and makes the weather weird. That weirdness might have felt mildat first. But that’s no longer the case.Consider, for example, that a third of U.S. residents live in a county that was struck by a climate-fueled disaster-droughts, floods, wildfires, heatwaves or hurricanes-in the last threemonths. Many of those events set new records and led to billions of dollars in damages.