climate

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City Administrative Officer Matthew Szabo is working on a separate Climate Action and Adaptation Plan meant to align with a state requirement that local governments maintain climate adaptation and resiliency strategies in their general plans.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

As scientists work to improve predictions, accounting for interactions like this could be critical for understanding how quickly and how severely climate change will progress.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026

According to Leifheit, from 2020 to 2022, homelessness rates in the U.S rose by 11% — but if you took climate disasters out of the equation, that number would have dropped to 8%.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

This is a point made by leading climate scientists including Prof Kevin Anderson of Manchester University, who argues the 50% figure "excludes international aviation and shipping and our imports and exports".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

They weren’t absolutely at the mercy of their merciless climate any longer; a bad harvest would not starve a whole province, or a bad winter isolate every city.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin