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Yes, you should be a little freaked out about Hurricane Beryl
(arstechnica.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes
They use a little trick called "lying" to keep their metrics.
Their CEO, Gail McGovern, a failed CEO from AT&T, has more than tripled her own salary while cutting employee benefits and is currently overseeing the absolute worst blood shortage in history.
People just don't trust them anymore.
For some reason.