Gauging the Impact of Warming On Asia’s Life-Giving Monsoons by Christina Larson: Yale Environment 360

Recent evidence suggests monsoons are weakening, whereas climate models predict strengthening

Why West Nile Virus is a Self-Inflicted Wound | Science and Space | TIME.com

Today tropical infections like malaria and dengue are as much diseases of poverty as they are of climate, which is why nearly 200,000 people die from malaria each year in the desperately poor Republic of Congo, while the disease has been eliminated in the tropical but rich island nation of Singapore. It isn’t being hot alone that kills — it’s being poor.

Four new ways climate activists can organize in an age of extreme weather | Grist

After decades of climate stalemate, the earth roared and people listened. Of course, Americans are fickle — concern about climate change will surely wax and wane. But the Earth’s decision to usher in the climate crisis a century ahead of schedule fundamentally changes the dynamics of the climate wars.

If this summer is any indication, it’s looking like we’re heading into an era shaped less by politicians and more by floods, hurricanes, and droughts.
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Maybe the bad weather has arrived just in time.

ICYMI: Taxpayers Paid for That: The New #1? UC Berkeley’s Solyndra Artwork Would Shatter Record for World’s Most Expensive Piece

Half Billion Dollar “SOL Grotto” Ranks Among Cézanne’s “The Card Players,” Jackson Pollock’s “No. 5. 1948,” and Munch’s “The Scream"