2020’s Latest Biblical Plague: A Terrifying Saharan Dust Storm Is Heading for the United States
A couple look at the sea as a vast cloud of Sahara dust is blanketing the city of Havana on June 24, 2020.Yamil Lage/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in Slate and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. In what…
“It’s Catastrophe Upon Catastrophe”—Michigan Flooding Is One of Many Pandemic Weather Disasters
Aerial photo of flooding in downtown Midland, Mich.Kelly Jordan and Junfu Han/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Rivers swollen from days of record-breaking rain topped two dams in Michigan’s Midland…
From Skijoring to Backyard Skating, Winter Fun Is Feeling the Heat of Climate Change
Samantha Young rides her horse Sly while pulling Cody McCarthy over a jump while they practice skijoring in Whitefish, Montana.Robin Loznak/Zuma This piece was originally published in Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. On January 20, 2020, Ted Valentiner and the other organizers of annual World Invitational Skijoring Championship in Whitefish,…
Weathercasters Are Talking About Climate Change—and How We Can Solve It
A meteorologist in Victoria, Texas.Matthew Westmoreland/AP This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. For many years, as the science of human-caused climate change grew ever clearer, TV meteorologists avoided discussing the topic on air. Today, many weathercasters bring up climate change regularly. By embracing the…
Internal Emails Confirm that Trump’s Hurricane Map Was “Doctored”
Trump in the Oval Office with the doctored mapEvan Vucci/AP Last September, as powerful Hurricane Dorian barreled towards the Bahamas, Donald Trump tweeted that several southern states, including Alabama, would be in its path. This was directly contradicted by the National Weather Service’s latest maps, which showed Alabama outside storm’s cone of uncertainty. Instead of…
Trump to City: Mop Dead
A maintenance worker mops the lobby of Trump Tower in 2016.Bryan R. Smith/Getty Images Yesterday, President Donald Trump tweeted his take on a proposal to build a barrier to protect his hometown from storm surges like the one that killed 44 people and caused $19 billion in damage and economic losses during Hurricane Sandy in…