Climate Impact Report – 06/07

Quick Facts
2M jobs
A June 2022 report found that clean energy investments could create more than 2 million jobs by 2050.
15" rain
Tropical Storm Alex, with 60 MPH winds, became the first named storm of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, dumping 15 inches of rain on parts of South Florida on Saturday.
800%
A June 2022 study found that the amount of money needed to aid communities in the face of extreme weather-related emergencies has increased by more than 800% in the past two decades.
Key Facts Of The Day 6/7
Hurricanes
- Tropical Storm Alex, with 60 MPH winds, became the first named storm of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season.
- Dangerous storm complexes possible in central U.S. every day this week.
- There is a daily chance of torrential rain, strong to locally damaging winds, and occasional hail and tornadoes.
- These systems, which can cover an entire state, also have the potential to incite flash flooding and generate tremendous amounts of lightning.
- The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center has declared an elevated risk of severe thunderstorms in the central states daily through Friday.
Wildfires
- As of Tuesday, there are currently 8 large active wildfires that have burned 724,414 across AK, AZ, CO, and NM. As of Tuesday, 28,592 wildfires have burned 1,978,445 acres across the country.
- In Alaska, 1 fire has burned 25,000 acres as of Tuesday.
- In Arizona, 1 fire has burned 7,598 acres as of Tuesday.
- In Colorado, 1 fire has burned 242 acres as of Tuesday.
- In New Mexico, 5 fires have burned 691,574 acres as of Tuesday.
- The Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire has burned 317,920 acres and is 65% contained as of Tuesday.
- The fire has destroyed at least 330 homes and left a financial toll in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
- The Black Fire has burned 288,424 acres and is 47% contained as of Tuesday.
- By the time Biden visits, the Black Fire will likely be the second-largest in the state’s history.
- President Joe Biden will be traveling to New Mexico this week in the wake of multiple record-breaking wildfires.
- In New Mexico, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced due to fire danger and smoke.
- The Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire has burned 317,920 acres and is 65% contained as of Tuesday.
Extreme Heat
- A Canadian tourist, Melanie Goodine, died in Arizona last week while hiking in the Grand Canyon under extreme heat.
- Temperatures in the shade where Goodine was hiking Thursday reached around 95 to 104 degrees.
- Hiking in the Grand Canyon during the summer months is particularly difficult when the impacts of the desert’s hot and dry conditions are more intense.
- The canyon’s dramatic changes in temperature and dryness can create perilous conditions for hikers.
- As drought continues to plague Oregon, farmers practice indigenous farming methods such as dryland farming.
- The Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Climate, Forestry, and Natural Resources is holding its first hearing in nine years and will examine the drought parching the American West.
- On Friday, the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services detected algae blooms at Mascoma Lake and Goose Pond and issued an advisory to avoid contact with water.
New Reports And Data
- A June 2022 report found that clean energy investments could create more than 2 million jobs by 2050.
- A June 2022 study found that the amount of money needed to aid communities in the face of extreme weather-related emergencies has increased by more than 800% in the past two decades.
- A June 2022 report found that plastics pollution is set to nearly triple by 2060.
- A June 2022 report found that older Black Americans are more than three times as likely to die from health problems stemming from soot exposure than their white counterparts.
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