Tropical Storm Gordon is steadily intensifying over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, prompting the National Hurricane Center to issue hurricane and storm surge warnings for parts of the northern Gulf Coast.
What we're watching: The storm is expected to make landfall late Tuesday or early Wednesday morning near the Louisiana border with Mississippi. Gordon has intensified faster than some computer models suggested, and it has another day of mild, Gulf of Mexico ocean waters to traverse.
A pair of analyses explore how rising heat, rising sea levels and powerful storms are threats to energy infrastructure.
Why it matters: There's justifiably lots of attention on fossil fuels' outsized contribution to global warming, but another crucial topic is how climate change is already affecting everything from power grids to refineries.
