As dangers rise, we must slow global warming
We plan our lives around the seasons — and the weather patterns we’ve come to expect.
But a hotter atmosphere is upending those patterns: Air and ocean currents are shifting, while more evaporation fuels disastrous deluges in some areas and drier droughts in others.
That means more intense hurricanes, heat waves, wildfires and floods.
Yet we can still turn this around by slashing carbon and methane pollution and tapping nature’s unsung solutions.
Our world in extreme weather
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Updates
Read the latest articles, blogs and press releases on extreme weather.
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Public Interest Groups Defend SEC’s Climate Risk Disclosure Rule
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Three Ways Climate Risks Are Increasing Costs for Businesses
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Puerto Rico Hit by Tropical Storm Ernesto
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Fighting wildfires with fire: Can prescribed burns save our forests?
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An obvious solution for building electric transmission faster: Use railroads and highways
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More rooftop solar means energy and economic justice for Puerto Rico
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Our extreme weather experts
We bring wide-ranging perspectives and skills to our work on extreme weather. Meet a few of the people driving this work.
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Alice Alpert
Senior Scientist
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Kate Boicourt
Director, Climate Resilient Coasts and Watersheds
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Eric Holst
Associate Vice President, Natural Climate Solutions
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Carolyn Kousky
Associate Vice President, Economics and Policy Analysis
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Fiona Lo
Climate Scientist
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Will McDow
Senior Director, Climate Resilient Watersheds
Media contact
Cecile Brown
(202) 271-6534 (office)