Currently en Puerto Rico — 14 de julio, 2023: Poca lluvia para finalizar la semana

El tiempo, currently.

Con la partida de la onda tropical del miércoles, el tiempo se secó el jueves y se espera que continúe relativamente tranquilo entrando al fin de semana. Alta presión en las capas medias de la atmósfera combinada con aire seco del Sahara limitarán la actividad de lluvia el viernes. No obstante, siempre en las tardes algunas tronadas son posibles en el interior y oeste. Para el viernes en la noche habrá aire ligeramente más húmedo llegando desde el Atlántico, suficiente para que las tronadas aisladas pasen a ser dispersas el sábado. Para zonas de baja elevación el calor sigue siendo preocupante, por lo cual habrá que tener cautela en actividades al aire libre.

—John Toohey-Morales

What you can do, currently.

The climate emergency doesn’t take the summer off. In fact — as we’ve been reporting — we’re heading into an El Niño that could challenge historical records and is already supercharging weather and climate impacts around the world.

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What you need to know, currently.

In what is surely a major milestone in the global fight against climate change, there’s fresh evidence that the rapidly plunging cost of renewable energy may have permanently put a stop to global growth of burning fossil fuels to create electricity.

A new report out Thursday by the Rocky Mountain Institute with support of the Bezos Earth Fund finds that wind and solar have gotten so cheap in almost every corner of the planet that it’s no longer economically viable to keep supplying coal, fossil gas, or oil to power plants. And that might be just the spark that’s needed to accelerate a surge of new renewable energy investment around the world.

The cost of wind and solar have plunged by 60-80% over the past 10 years, and their share of global electricity production will triple to more than one-third in the next 6 years.

All this seems like a dream for those of us who have been working on climate for decades. It’s worth the biggest celebrations, and there’s still a lot of work to do. Fossil fuel use for electricity accounts for only about one-quarter of global carbon emissions. The harder-to-reduce sectors like transportation, agriculture, and industry are shifting away from fossil fuels at a slower pace — but like electricity, still accelerating toward a better future.

That acceleration is everything, according to Singapore-based clean energy expert Assaad Razzouk. His thread summarizing the report and its implications is worth reading. His bottom line: “Nothing is more important than running faster: Speed is justice.”

—Eric Holthaus