What we Risk Losing to Climate Change

Glacier overlooking Fjallsárlón, Iceland—July 28, 2016. The unprecedented heatwave that melted all-time temperature records in British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington provided a fresh and recurring reminder of what is at stake as climate change continues. To date, the recent episodes of shocking heat occurred in Europe on two occasions during summer 2019, Siberia in 2020, the U.S. Southwest in summer 2020, the U.S. Southwest in mid-June and then the Pacific Northwest in late June. Nevertheless, the status quo still stubbornly resists.