1) A thread: Last spring, this video of a home collapsing into the ocean in Rodanthe, N.C., went viral. It was the third to fall in a brief period. It got me wondering how folks in that part of the Outer Banks are facing rapid erosion. So I went to see.
washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro… 2) Needless to say, the falling houses last year spread more than debris along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore – though there was plenty of that. They also spread anxiety throughout the community. (Here’s our story on the initial collapses):
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1) I recently traveled to a small community in the N.C. mountains to write about a catastrophe most Americans never heard about. But he flooding there was was part of 20 “billion-dollar” weather and climate disasters tracked by the U.S. government:
washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro… 2) The flash flooding in an around Canton, N.C., destroyed bridges and roads. Wiped scores of homes and left hundreds of others in disrepair. At least 6 people perished. Evidence of the financial and emotional toll remains everywhere.

1/ I get it. It’s understandable to move past another grim headline about climate change – especially amid war, economic worries, etc. But today’s @IPCC_CH is quite jarring…but also not all doomsday. .@sarahkaplan48 and I read all 3,675 pages. Here’s some of what you ought know: @IPCC_CH @sarahkaplan48 2/ Should we start with the bad news first? Spoiler, there’s plenty. Humanity has unleashed more than a trillion tons of CO2 since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Even if we stopped burning fossil fuels today, we’ve set in motion a certain amount of irreversible change.

1) Before the day slips away, wanted to unpack what today’s @IPCC latest assessment tells us about the state of the planet, what might lie ahead and how we should think about the question of “hope” when it comes to climate change.
washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro… 2) Let’s start back in 1990, when the IPCC’s first scientific assessment warned about a greenhouse effect driven by humans and said if we didn’t act to cut our collective missions, there could be “profound consequences” for the world. ipcc.ch/site/assets/up…

1) So, about the global temperature data released today by NOAA and NASA. The main findings are startling enough: 2nd-hottest year ever, hottest 5 years since 2015, hottest decade since record-keeping began. But…
washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro… 2) Take a look at this really sharp graphic from @JohnMuyskens. It underscores just how warm the past five years have been. And researchers say 2020 has a 95% chance to be among the hottest ever.