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
Updates
Read the latest articles, blogs and press releases on extreme weather.
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Is California becoming Uninsurable?
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State Budget Must Shift California from Disaster Response to Prevention through Robust Climate Action
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Urgent Need to Address Puerto Rico’s Energy Crisis
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Long Island’s struggle to cope with rising sea levels
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Let’s protect what matters, together
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Climate Resilience Maturity Model Will Help Illinois Utilities Prepare for Climate, Severe Weather
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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, Forests
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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
Associate Vice President, Climate Resilient Coasts and Watersheds
Media contact
Cecile Brown
(202) 271-6534 (office)