Temperatures have already increased by over 1.1C (2F) since pre-industrial times, resulting in measurable increases in disasters such flash floods, prolonged droughts, more intense hurricanes and longer-burning wildfires.
Can we slow our trajectory?
Future of the Gulf is not good
“South Louisiana is probably the most vulnerable place to climate change in the United States,” climatologist Barry Keim said.
It is only going to get worse
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Louisiana, wake up to unequivocal change coming