As President Biden recently signed what Forbes called “the most important climate action in U.S. history” – the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 – another climate story reminded us there is much more work to be done:Part of the Arctic, already warming much faster than the rest of the world, is warming even faster than scientists thought. The Washington Post reported that the region surrounding Svalbard, Norway, has warmed at least four times faster than the global average. Since 1979, the region has warmed 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit. To put that in context, the rest of the world warmed 2 degrees, which was enough to cause devastating effects in the form of droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, flooding and – in East Africa – a hunger crisis.

Source: CBC News October 04, 2022 01:01 UTC