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TICK TOCK THE CLIMATE CLOCK – PART THIRTY-ONE

It’s been exactly one month since I last posted about the climate.   So it seemed about time to do a climate round-up to see what’s been going on in plain sight while we were focused on the coronavirus.     Spoiler alert:   The climate disaster never sleeps. Kolkata Got Klobbered .   As reported in The New York Times on May 21: More than 80 people were killed by the powerful cyclone that slammed into India and Bangladesh on Wednesday, wiping out thousands of homes and drenching low-lying areas in torrential rain…. Many of the dead were crushed by falling trees, electrocuted by downed wires or buried inside collapsing buildings as Cyclone Amphan pummeled the region, leaving a wide swath of devastation and grief. The worst damage was reported in the Indian state of West Bengal, which includes the metropolis of Kolkata and many small, coastal villages where people live in shacks made from mud and sticks. More than 2.4 million were eva...