Good morning, everyone. For unexpected reasons, I am not able to write new content this morning, so I am moving this up by one day. Hope you find it interesting.  I simply can't imagine why anyone reads The New York Times.  So many of its global warming stories are just wrong.  Dead from weather-related disasters have decreased, not increased. See the graph below.  The above puts the lie to the story regardless of the additional fact that weather-related disasters and subsequent deaths are not decreasing due to climate (discussion here ). I suppose there will always be people who want to signal their virtue by reading the Times  but I can't imagine people read it for quality climate journalism. 

More climate absurdity : While our changing climate features more heat (in the 1.5 years, primarily due to the water vapor increase caused by the Tonga Volcano), per the IPCC, there is no increase in flooding. If you don't wish to wade through hundreds (literally) of pages, go to Table 12.12 in their latest report.  The above said, bridges are built with expansion joints to deal with extreme heat.  This story is a bad combination of climate alarmism propaganda with an attempt to make Vice President Harris look by increasing climate concern.