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With Climate Change no Longer Easy to Dismiss, Florida Has Opportunity to do Things Differently
For many, summer is a time of fun. No school. Family vacations. Popsicles. Fireflies.
For even more, climate change is not top of mind.
Daily to-do lists bleed into the next day and all the dire predictions around 2050 feel very far away. (For those not good at math, it’s 27 years, the same number of years away that 1996 is.)
The summer of 2023 may change all that. Poor air quality stemming from record wildfires in Canada plague parts of the U.S. No one is immune to torrential downpours or hot and humid temperatures. Death Valley, California, is about to break its own record — set in 2021 — for the hottest place and day on Earth.
The climate crisis is in full swing and can no longer be ignored or brushed off as extreme weather — especially now that ocean water temperatures threaten to boil anyone taking a beach vacation!
We have been the proverbial frog in the boiling water, the one that didn’t notice the water was gradually getting warmer. But now is decidedly the chance to jump out of the pot.
While all the record breaking is troubling, the effects on our oceans are the most concerning. South Florida’s oceans are undergoing a marine heatwave and for the…
