Extreme weather

The Most Dangerous Climate Argument Today Isn’t Denial, It’s Delay

April 16, 2026 Joakim Kulin and Ekaterina Rhodes, DeSmog. Strategize! climate crisis, climate denial, Extreme weather, Green Energy Transition

Under Donald Trump’s renewed push to expand fossil fuel production — including plans to ramp up oil and gas drilling and roll back climate regulations — climate politics in the United States is entering a new phase. Although Trump’s climate agenda is very much aligned with outright denial, it has become less central in mainstream climate action debate. Instead, opposition to policies such as carbon pricing, emissions standards, and fossil fuel phaseouts remains strong. At the same time, the impacts of climate change are becoming harder to ignore.

Teaching Climate Preparedness, Block By Block

March 15, 2026 Pryce Jamison, Next City. Create! Disaster Preparedness, Extreme weather, Mutual Aid, Philadelphia

Dominique London knows most of her neighbors in Germantown are unequipped and unprepared for any emergencies or disasters that may strike. “America in general is a very exceptionalist society where we think things happen around us, but not to us,” says London, who has been an educator on emergency preparedness and climate resilience in her community for the past six years and previously helped coordinate the City of Philadelphia’s public health response during the Covid-19 pandemic. “It’s important to recognize that you are the help that is coming,” she says.

An Unsettling Climate Warning For Homeownership

February 21, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! climate crisis, Extreme weather, Global heating, Housing, Insurance

Earth’s climate system has suddenly shifted to a new phase of global warming acceleration that few saw coming. This ups the ante for risks of severe climate-related disaster scenarios following a record-shattering year in 2025. This directly impacts American homeownership, whether it is compatible with current U.S. energy/climate policies. “The last three years are indicative of an acceleration in the warming. They’re not consistent with the linear trend that we’ve been observing for the 50 years before that,” according to Robert Rohde, chief scientist at the Berkeley Earth monitoring group.

Community Control: No To The National Guard, No To Privatization

February 19, 2026 Black Alliance for Peace Nashville Citywide Alliance, Black Agenda Report. Resist! Disaster Recovery, Extreme weather, National Guard, Tennessee

On the weekend of January 24, 2026, Nashville, Tennessee was hit by winter storm Fern. It began as snow but as temperatures dropped and ice began to form, and freezing rain began to fall. The accumulating ice snapped tree limbs and brought down power lines. By Tuesday, January 27, 2026, nearly 140,000 households were without power as temperatures dropped to the single digits. The current weather-related death toll in Nashville reached 29 people as of February 4th, due to a range of issues, from hypothermia to carbon monoxide poisoning.

Give Shovels, Not Bullets, To National Guard To ‘Protect’ DC Residents

February 8, 2026 Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Educate! Extreme weather, National Guard, Public safety, Washington DC

I’ve been in Washington, DC for the past week battling the icy and snow piled sidewalks and streets, one week after the big snow and ice storm that immobilized the city for days. While using the city’s buses and Metros, it was very apparent the most probable danger in DC is falling on sidewalk ice and at the unshoveled bus stops. The National Guard, the group that was brought into the city by President Trump for the protection of the residents of the city, was doing nothing to protect its residents. Of the two thousand National Guard personnel sent to Washington, every day at least 15 National Guard personnel in groups of three or four were at various corners around the Eastern Market Metro stop.

The Unraveling Of FEMA

January 21, 2026 Matt Sedlar, Center for Economic Policy and Research. Educate! Austerity, Extreme weather, Federal Workers, FEMA

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had a bad 2025. The year started with staffing cuts and the appointment of a council to determine whether the agency — which handles the federal response to disasters and funds disaster recovery and prevention projects — should continue to exist in its current form. The administration even dismantled a popular grant program that funded disaster mitigation projects. To top it all off, FEMA went through two acting administrators in the course of 12 months: Cameron Hamilton was fired in early May after declaring in congressional testimony that the agency should not be eliminated, and David Richardson stepped down in November after various controversies, including his response to the July Texas floods.

Economists Call For The Suspension Of Sri Lanka’s Debt

December 27, 2025 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Resist! climate crisis, COVID-19, Debt, Economic crisis, Extreme weather, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Sri Lanka

The Institute of Political Economy (IPE), Sri Lanka and the UK-based Debt Justice issued a joint statement demanding the International Monetary Fund (IMF) suspend Sri Lanka’s debt repayment to help it tackle its prolonged economic crisis compounded by Cyclone Ditwah. The statement, signed by over 120 well-known economists from across the world including Jayati Ghosh and Utsa Patnaik from India, Nobel-prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, and French economist Thomas Piketty, asks the IMF to prioritize the welfare of people and their development over financial obligations to external creditors.

The Devastation In Melissa’s Wake And The ‘New Normal’

November 5, 2025 Roger McKenzie, Black Agenda Report. Educate! climate crisis, Extreme weather, Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica

As the extent of the devastation Hurricane Melissa has caused across the Caribbean begins to emerge, at least one thing is clear: this is the new normal. Melissa, as the highest level Category 5 hurricane, was the second-strongest Atlantic storm ever recorded. But, according to experts, it will be something we are likely to see more frequently. The even worse news is that future storms may be even more intense than this one. There is now talk that we now need a new Category 6. Scientists currently classify storms by the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale.

Climate Change Sets Workers’ Feet On Fire

October 17, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! climate crisis, COP30, Extreme weather, Global heating, Worker Rights, Working Class

This summer, there were days in tropical cities when it was unbearable to walk out in the sunlight. In Mango, Togo, for instance, the temperature soared to 44°C in March and April. Heat maps depict a world on fire, red hot flames licking the planet from the equator outwards. If the air temperature is around 44°C, then the temperature of asphalt and concrete surfaces can exceed 60°C. Since second-degree burns occur in less than five seconds at 60°C, those exposed to that heat are liable to burn their skin. Walking the streets of these burning cities is hard enough with shoes – imagine what it must be like for the millions of people who lack appropriate footwear but must work outdoors during the hottest parts of the day.

Insurrectionary Utopias Part 1: Ideas Towards A Liberatory Mutual Aid

September 17, 2025 Scott Crow, Agency. Organize! Collective Liberation, Disasters, Extreme weather, Mutual Aid

Despair, grief, and fear color much of our days, often challenging our hopes for the future. These emotions have seeped into daily conversations, media portrayals, and the very fabrics of our lives. Our fragile social bonds in civil society have been pushed to the brink due to ongoing disasters, crises and seeming uncertainty we all face. Despite the beautiful, historic gains made against Power (1), and the inspiring uprisings and rebellions since the turn of the millennium — undermining the very foundations of U.S. historical and systemic oppression — a loss for what-to-do characterizes much of our reflections. Civil society is unraveling due to an unsustainable civilization, the multi-year COVID-19 pandemic, an ongoing climate emergency, and the usurping of 20th century “democratic” institutions by right-wing forces with fascistic dreams.

Fundamental Change In The Climate: ‘The World Is Coming Apart Before Our Eyes’

September 9, 2025 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Featured Campaign, Podcast - Clearing The FOG Carbon emissions, climate crisis, Extreme weather, Global heating, Oceans, Sea level rise

The situation with respect to the climate crisis is developing rapidly. Each new study seems to bring worse news. In addition, the media is rife with climate denial and misinformation. To help us understand what is happening on this planet, Clearing the FOG speaks with environmental journalist Robert Hunziker. Hunziker follows climate studies published in scientific journals and translates them into a language the average person can understand. He reports that top scientists are saying there has been a fundamental shift in the climate. Rainforests and tundras are now spewing carbon instead of sequestering it, and the oceans have reached their capacity for storing the planet's heat. Cascading weather events are making areas of the world uninhabitable.

Resisting Disaster Capitalism Through Mutual Aid In Puerto Rico

September 9, 2025 Ester Dazzo, Transnational Institute. Create! climate crisis, Extreme weather, Mutual Aid, Puerto Rico

Since 2016, Puerto Rico has faced a complex crisis, when it declared bankruptcy, worsening a fiscal crisis after a decade of recession. In response, Obama signed the PROMESA law, aiming to restructure the debt and enforce fiscal responsibility. It created the Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB), a body comprised of seven members appointed by the US President, which can override local laws, blatantly highlighting Puerto Rico's colonial status. In 2017, the Board imposed a ten-year plan of austerity, cutting budgets for healthcare, education, and other vital services. The inability of the government to deal with the economic crisis led to an increase in political distrust.

Left Movements In South Asia Call For Increased Mobilizations

September 6, 2025 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Resist! climate crisis, Extreme weather, Floods, India, Pakistan, Punjab

Hundreds of people have lost their lives and millions their livelihoods and homes due to persistent flooding in India and Pakistan. The unprecedented rains in the last month have caused the rivers in the northern parts of both countries to flood most of the province of Punjab on either side of the border. Several other areas in both countries have been badly affected by the floods, such as Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in Pakistan and Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Haryana in India. Both countries have deployed their armed forces to evacuate thousands of people trapped in areas submerged in water and to run other forms of relief work, due to ineffective disaster management bodies.

Why We Remember Katrina

August 30, 2025 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Extreme weather, Failed State, Hurricane Katrina, Racism

Hurricane Katrina first struck the United States on August 25, 2025 making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, the least powerful storm in that designation. But after being downgraded to the category of tropical storm, it gained strength as it traveled into the Gulf of Mexico and again reached hurricane status, making landfall again in Mississippi and Louisiana on August 29, 2025. Residents of Mobile, Alabama, Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi, and New Orleans and other Louisiana cities were all devastated by the storm surge. Twenty years later when we think of Katrina it is the images from New Orleans, where large portions of the city are below sea level, which come to mind.

Hurricane Katrina Revealed Why Climate Justice Must Include Right To Free Movement

August 30, 2025 Faye Matthews and Andrei Greenwood, Resilience. Organize! climate crisis, Climate Justice, Extreme weather, Free movement, Hurricane Katrina

August 29, 2005 is a day that lives in infamy in the Gulf South. On that day, Hurricane Katrina slammed onto shore at the Mississippi/Louisiana state line as a powerful and massive hurricane. Twenty years later, it remains the costliest hurricane in U.S. history. For both of us, August 29 was the day that changed everything. The storm forced us to make the heart-wrenching decision to leave our homes, businesses, and families, uncertain if we would return again. Today, that experience shapes the way that we look at and participate in conversations around immigration and the artificiality of borders. We saw in real time what it meant to have the right to remain, to migrate, and to return.

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