Extreme weather

The Most Shocking Climate News Of 2026

August 4, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! climate crisis, Ecological Collapse, Extreme weather, Food Security

The UK Green Party’s former leader Caroline Lucas recently nailed the Labor Party for “burying the most explosive report” of the year by UK military and intelligence sources. The concealed report warns “that the global collapse of ecosystems poses grave threats to the UK’s security and food supply within as little as five years.” “The UK ‘has no future’ if it cannot ‘restore the natural world on which we rely for our food, water, and clean air,’ said Chris Hinchliff, who is among the members of Parliament pressing the government to release the full report, rather than a shorter, redacted version.

Real Estate Jitters At Tropic Of Cancer

August 2, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Create! climate crisis, Extreme weather, Florida, Housing, Insurance

Florida is the nation’s barometer of climate change. It’s on the cutting-edge of climate at latitude 24.5°N-to-31°N in-line with Egypt, Saudia Arabia, and Mexico. Significantly, it aligns with Tropic of Cancer at 23.5°N, the hottest latitude on Earth. It’s there that climate change dances its special rhythm in a precursor of what’s in store for the States. It shows up there first. Homeowners in Florida can attest to the costliness of living along the world-famous Tropic of Cancer via home insurance premiums, directly impacted by a rapidly changing climate that’s literally changing homeowner’s lives. Will other high-risk regions of America follow suit and how soon?

America’s Climate Free Fall

July 25, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! Climate Adaptation, climate crisis, Extreme weather, Global Economy, Tipping point

Climate tipping points are critical thresholds that trigger unstoppable shifts to another state. The global climate system is full of teetering tipping points that collectively threaten the climate system with radical change. But it’s the change itself, the transition to a tipping point, that is most chaotic. This is climate free fall in America today, dangerously exposing the country to risks overlooked by policy decision-makers. Climate free fall has been identified by Anders Kevernann, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, Professor of the Dynamics of the Climate System at Institute for Physics and Astrophysics: “The planet is heading for climate free fall, a period where increasingly erratic weather will stress global supply chains, spike insurance losses, and undermine the financial stability modern economies depend on.

Republicans Trying To Give Big Oil Immunity For Causing Climate Chaos

July 22, 2026 Mike Ludwig, Truthout. Educate! Accountability, Big Oil and Gas, Extreme weather, Fossil Fuels, State Legislatures

The science used to attribute extreme weather events to climate change has advanced remarkably in recent years, allowing policy makers, judges, and the public to see clear links between disasters and the fossil fuel emissions driving climate crisis. Now, as the links become clearer, oil and gas lobbyists are scrambling to shield the industry from a wave of lawsuits and state laws seeking to hold profiteers accountable for the damage that burning fossil fuels causes to communities and public health.

Repeated Storms Are Turning Disaster Recovery Into A Way Of Life

July 18, 2026 Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, Resilience. Strategize! Climate Adaptation, climate crisis, Disaster Recovery, Extreme weather

Flash flooding has been tearing up communities across the U.S., with heavy downpours sending creeks and rivers rushing over their banks from Texas to Kentucky, across the Midwest and into the Mid-Atlantic states and the Northeast. Texas’ Hill Country was hit hard again when a powerful storm triggered flooding on the Guadalupe and other rivers on July 16, 2026, in the same region where more than 100 people, including young campers, died in flash flooding on July 4, 2025. In Missouri, floodwater swept away a home, and National Guard helicopters had to rescue and evacuate dozens of people from a summer camp.

Super El Niño Is Here; We Must Organize To Prepare For It

July 11, 2026 Kaylie Couch, People's World. Organize! climate crisis, El Nino, Extreme weather, Mutual Aid

As of June 2026, the National Oceanographic Association of America has warned that a “super El Niño” is forming in the Pacific. With wildfires and a statewide drought emergency threatening the most vulnerable in our communities, we are warned that a drier, warmer winter is on the way. The higher temperatures at the surface of the ocean are reaching anomalous levels, and it’s going to have a variety of negative impacts on our society. This “super El Niño” is not the first, and it certainly won’t be the last. With rising global temperatures, we will be seeing a lot more warm water circulating in the oceans, leading to greater cycles of El Niño and La Niña.

Paradise, California Hosts A Gathering On Community Resilience

May 13, 2026 Bob Stilger, Resilience. Organize! California, climate crisis, Disaster Recovery, Extreme weather, Wildfires

Wildfires have already burned nearly two million acres in the U.S. this year — far exceeding the ten-year May average — and conditions are only expected to get hotter and drier. Of course, wildfires are only one of many challenges we now face. Last year, I heard the term “confluence of catastrophes,” which I’ve come to appreciate much more than “polycrisis.” Polycrisis suggests to me problems running in parallel, while confluence evokes forces flowing together — into us, through us, from us. How do we live, now, in our confluence of catastrophes?

Puerto Ricans Take Power Into Their Own Hands

May 13, 2026 Cathy Kunkel, Convergence Magazine. Create! Environmental Justice, Extreme weather, Puerto Rico, Renewable Energy

As the climate crisis intensifies and 2050 climate targets seem increasingly out of reach, efforts to build local climate resilience are becoming increasingly relevant. In Puerto Rico, AMANESER works with local groups to install and maintain their own rooftop solar systems to meet critical household needs. In doing so, AMANESER aims to empower communities impacted by centuries of colonialism to confront a worsening climate and ecological crisis—and to challenge our dominant thinking around how we “solve” climate change.

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.

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