Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Far From the Climate Talks: The Human Cost of Global Warming in 2024

Every month so far has seen floods, fires, smashed heat records or some combination of extreme weather. Little time remains for leaders to agree on what to do about it.

The dissonance is jarring.

Inside a stadium in the authoritarian petrostate of Azerbaijan, diplomatic deliberations to slow down climate change are snagged over money.

Outside, the burning of fossil fuels has exacted incalculable human losses. Millions of people are suffering. Nature is losing.

Here's a partial accounting of this year's calamities month by month, and how some of the planet's most vulnerable are trying to cope in creative ways... nyt

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