Stages of the True Field

 

Israel has killed more than 36,500 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and thousands more remain buried under the rubble and are presumed dead. Around 26 million tons of debris and rubble have been left in the wake of Israel’s bombardment, which could take years to clean up.

Now it's been estimated that the climate cost of reconstructing the 200,000 apartment buildings, schools, universities, hospitals, mosques, bakeries, and water and sewage plants that Israel ruined in Gaza will generate as much as 60 million tons of CO₂. This is equivalent to the total emissions generated in 2022 by entire countries such as Portugal and Sweden. Among his crimes against humanity, we can now add "contributed to climate change" to Bibi Netanyahu's list of offenses.

Meanwhile, tornadoes yesterday hit Maryland and Detroit, where a two-year-old boy was killed and his mother critically injured after a tornado dropped a massive tree on the bed where the child and his mother were sleeping. The mother is in the hospital in critical condition and a two-month-old who was also in the home is expected to recover.

Already this year, excessive-heat warnings have been issued from Texas, across Arizona and Nevada, up through the center of California, and to the northern part of the state, as more than 36 million people across the country brace for days of potentially life-threatening temperatures. Affected areas of California could see conditions 30° F higher than normal for this time of year, as southwestern cities, including Phoenix and Las Vegas, prepare to hit peaks above 110°.

This could be just the start of another record-breaking year with the potential to pass 2023 as the hottest year in recorded history. A three-month forecast of seasonal temperatures by NOAA predicts above-average temperatures for most of the country this summer. These early seasonal extremes are already straining the system, and vulnerable communities bear the brunt of rising temperatures as the human-caused climate crisis pushes already-sweltering locales past the brink.