"Dangerously hot" conditions may peak across portions of interior California, the Great Basin, the Southwest and South Texas on Friday. Still, extreme heat is likely to "plod" into next week, the National Weather Service warned.
The big picture: Heat alerts remain in effect for about 25 million people Friday, after widespread temperature records were tied or broken in California, Nevada and Arizona Thursday — including in Phoenix, where 11 people who were waiting in line to enter a Trump rally were hospitalized due to heat-related illnesses.
TheLeague of Conservation Voters is launching a $2.6 million digital ad buy that promotes President Biden's Arctic anti-drilling efforts to young audiences.
Why it matters: Young voters were a key part of Biden's 2020 coalition, but some progressives have expressed misgivings about key elements of Biden's record — including approval of ConocoPhillips' Willow oil project in Alaska, and the White House's posture on Israel.
— The MIT Energy Initiative's Howard Herzog, via Bloomberg, casting doubt on direct air capture's ability to lower costs to the benchmark target of $100/ton of CO2 removed
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called out advertising agencies, governments and media organizations for allowing the fossil fuel industry to "shamelessly greenwash" and "delay climate action."
Why it matters: The UN leader's words, delivered in a major address on World Environment Day, were the highest-profile endorsement yet of a movement simmering among some environmental activists and people in the ad industry. They have sought to separate major advertising firms from their fossil fuel clients.
Why it matters: The past 14 months have featured surprisingly large temperature anomalies across the world's oceans, with widespread and damaging marine heat waves, the Copernicus Climate Change Service found.
The hottest temperatures to hit the U.S. this year were sweeping across California and the Southwest into Thursday — and the "dangerous" heat's expected to bring record temperatures to much of the region before expanding eastwards this week.
The big picture: Excessive heat warnings and watches extended from the central valley down through southern California's deserts, southern Nevada and southern and western Arizona and into Utah, affectingover 29 million early Monday after the heat began building a day earlier.
Multiple tornadoes reported across the U.S. on Wednesday left a toddler dead in suburban Detroit, Michigan, and several people injured in a Maryland suburb just outside of Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
The big picture: The storms that unleashed the tornadoes come during one of the busiest tornado seasons on record in the U.S, per the National Weather Service.
