Over 80% of the contiguous US is under some sort of drought category.

The only other time this happened in the 22 year history of the drought monitor was in July 2012 #Drought

It amazes me that some people think climate change is just some grand conspiracy of scientists who are lying 'for the money'.

If that were true, one might imagine that some of the richest corporations in the world would have figured a way to disprove it by now. 🤷‍♂️

EXCLUSIVE: Advisers to Elon Musk and Twitter are preparing paperwork to complete the $44 billion buyout by Oct. 28 after months of public acrimony trib.al/wGPDkEs

I've known for a while that the Middle East has been experiencing rapid local warming, but it doesn't make the +1.6 °C (+2.9 °F) over the last 40 years any less striking.

Liz Truss will be the shortest serving PM in UK history (46 days so far)

#2 George Canning (1827) died, 119 days
#3 F.J. Robinson (1827) replaced by the King, 144 days
#4 Bonar Law (1922) resigned due to cancer, 211 days
#5 William Cavendish (1756) replaced by the King, 225 days

P.P.S. As the website shows, over 100 experts contributed to The Climate Book, including some big Twitter names, e.g.:

Prof. Katharine Hayhoe Prof Michael E. Mann Zeke Hausfather Ketan Joshi NaomiOreskes Johan Rockström Kate Marvel Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏🇺🇦 Peter Gleick 🇺🇸 Dr Tamsin Edwards Glen Peters

theclimatebook.org/contributors/

P.S. I didn't see this earlier, but there is now a website dedicated to the 'The Climate Book' showing contributors, chapters, and section headings:

theclimatebook.org/the-book/

The #Mississippi River at record low levels in many areas. Here near #Tiptonville , TN people are walking and vehicles have been driving on dry river bed that would be totally under water in normal conditions. #MOwx #TNwx #ARwx #MSwx

The climate change we cause will outlive all of us, and is essentially permanent on the time scale of human lives.

We need to stop rushing towards an uncertain and dangerous future.

That limitation aside, if you are looking for a broad introduction to climate change, its implications, and potential human responses, then this is a good place to start.

10/10

The trade-off in writing a very broad anthology, is that most topics are summarized and not explored with any depth.

It's great if you want a brief introduction to a topic, like greenhouse gases or climate justice, but won't provide a lot of technical detail.

9/