We're simply not ready for just how extreme the weather's getting.
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 | | | ![Polar Bear in the Arctic, Polar Bear on Sea Ice in Baffin Bay GIF depicting before-and-after of polar bear: Don't let corporate polluters sink our liveable future.] [DONATE NOW→]](https://als-totem.s3.amazonaws.com/emailimages/36291/GREEN-808.gif) | | Remember how we used to call the climate crisis "global warming"? | | We don't anymore, but it's not for the reason you might think. That's because it's not just the heat that's getting more extreme: it's all weather. And right now, no one's truly prepared for just how extreme it's getting. | | A more livable future is within reach, but ahead of our July 31 deadline, we need your help to keep up the fight for it. Will you rush $10 now to help us end the crisis that's left our climate on the fritz? | | | | In the first week of July, Hurricane Beryl made history as the earliest Category 5 to form in the Atlantic, making landfall in Texas as a Category 1 the following Monday, leaving millions without power in the sweltering Texas heat. | | In its aftermath, the tropical storm then barreled inland, drenching the east coast, and triggering flash flooding and tornadoes in the Great Lakes and New England. | | Two days later, Las Vegas hit a record-shattering five-day streak of heat over 115 ºF. | | And across North, Central, and South America, more than 9.7 million cases of the deadly dengue fever — double as many as last year — have been reported, likely due to the warmer and wetter conditions creeping northward that disease-bearing mosquitoes need to thrive. | | The harsh truth is: we're not doing enough to keep climate change from getting worse. Oil-, coal-, and gas-driven climate change has made extreme weather events more frequent and harder to predict, meaning 2024's tally of 15 billion-dollar climate disaster events (so far) will only increase in the years to come — unless corporations stop putting profits over people and start making real changes to keep global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius. | | Greenpeace USA has an over-50-year track record of pushing back against the greed-fueled status quo, but it's only thanks to the support of grassroots climate champions like you, Kathleen. Now, we're counting on your urgent support to keep up that record for another 50 years or more — so before the July 31 deadline, will you please rush a gift to power the fight for our planet's liveable future as long as it takes to win? | | | | Stay cool,
Katie Nelson, Senior Communications Specialist | | | | | | |
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