The government’s official employment report is due Friday. The ADP National Employment Report was well above 220,000 forecasted by economists. companies added 497,000 jobs last month – the most in over a year. The ban also decreased abortions in Texas and six adjacent states by 38%, according to researchers. Instead, there were about 297,000 total births during that nine-month period – about 3% more than expected without the law. The research team estimated that from April to December 2022, Texas would have typically seen 287,289 births after analyzing years of previous live birth data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Texas Senate Bill 8, passed in September 2021, effectively banned abortions after six weeks of pregnancy with few exceptions. ( CNN / ABC News / Axios)Ģ/ Texas’ strict abortion law led to nearly 10,000 more births than expected over a nine-month period. “It’s not a record to celebrate and it won’t be a record for long, with northern hemisphere summer still mostly ahead and El Niño developing,” said Friederike Otto, senior lecturer in climate science at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment in the UK. That was followed by an average global temperature of 62.92 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday and Wednesday. The record was first set on Monday, when average global temperatures hit 61.16 degrees Fahrenheit, surpassing a previous record set in August 2016. Heatwaves like these “will become more common in the future as we continue to burn coal, oil and natural gas”, Pershing said.1/ Earth recorded its hottest day ever for three straight days. “If you’re struggling financially and worried about paying your electric bill, you might not run your AC long enough, which is going to increase your vulnerability,” Pershing said. At home, vulnerable communities might lack adequate air conditioning. People of color and low-income residents bear a higher burden from heat, whether because of their occupation or living in close proximity to heat exacerbating industries and heat-trapping highways. Unrelenting heat presents particular health and safety risks to older adults, young children, pregnant women, people with chronic conditions and outdoor workers. On Thursday, an Oregon county filed a lawsuit against fossil fuel companies, arguing that the oil and gas companies are accountable for the heatwave.
In 2021, 69 people in Oregon died from heat caused by a heat dome. In Jackson, Mississippi, residents reported not having power and air conditioning for nearly 100 hours, NBC reports.Īn average of 702 heat related deaths happen in the US each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Emergency crews in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, region have responded to a record number of calls owing to the heat and lack of power, according to the New York Times. “Human-caused climate change made these conditions more than five times more likely.”Įarlier this week, Texas’s power utility urged users to cut back on air conditioning to alleviate the stress on the grid. We are seeing a really intense, wide-spread, and long-lasting event,” said Andrew Pershing, director of climate science at non-profit Climate Central. “These conditions are very stressful to the people living in the region. It's even more astonishing when you consider it's mid June! This configuration, likely enhanced by climate heating, is fueling a record heat dome so extreme that even experts are astonished! /GPbd0rjpst- Jeff Berardelli June 20, 2023
When I look at this jet stream the word insane comes to mind.
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