Was climate change a factor in Surfside disaster?
Heatwave | Misinformation laws | A1 Verse
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July 1, 2021
CLIMATE CHANGE
This is not cool
The recent heatwave in the Pacific Northwest made Bulletin editor Dawn Stover an unwitting pioneer. The area recorded temperatures greater than any human has ever experienced in the region. Read more.
DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Misinformation vs. the law
Countries have more than 100 laws on the books to combat misinformation. Since 2019, at least 62 new laws have been proposed, amended, or implemented. Do they actually work? Read our premium magazine content.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Did climate change factor in Surfside disaster?
A look at whether rising sea-levels factored into the June 27 collapse of a residential tower in Surfside, Florida. Read more.
“We know from past history that mistake, or miscalculation, can take us to the brink. The hour is late. Yes, it’s 100 seconds to midnight. But there is still time to make the work safer.” — Jerry Brown, Executive Chair, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
SPECIAL TOPICS
The A1 Verse: The limit of the marginal
The New York Times front-page story “Dispossessed again: Climate change hits Native Americans especially hard” has inspired Bulletin multimedia editor Thomas Gaulkin to once again convert prose into poetry. Read more.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Might a heat dome have developed out West this past week without climate change? Sure. Might it have been as extreme as what we’re witnessing without climate change? Almost surely not.”
— Michael E. Mann, director of Earth System Science Center, and Susan Joy Hassol, director of Climate Communication, “That Heat Dome? Yeah, It’s Climate Change.”
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