month was the second-hottest April on record on planet Earth. Arctic sea ice hit a monthly record low.
Clearly, the planet is warming. And more records are likely to be broken this year.
As the climate crisis accelerates, it’s worth asking what to expect if we aggressively cut greenhouse gas emissions now, and what would happen if we do nothing. As part of our Weather 2050 project, we used the latter scenario to look at what could happen to temperature and precipitation in US cities by the middle of the century.
View the complete May 24 article by Umair Irfan and Kavya Sukumar on the Vox website here.