Memorandum for journalists covering extreme weather in summer 2010 and links to climate change

A memorandum from Friends of the Earth urging journalists to increase in-depth reporting on the unambiguous connections between climate change and the extreme weather events observed during the summer of 2010.

• The summer of 2010 was characterized by devastating global climate events, including prolonged heat in Russia, flooding in Pakistan, and a piece of ice four times the size of Manhattan breaking off from Greenland into the North Atlantic.
• In the United States, extreme weather in 2010 included record spring temperatures, flooding in Iowa and Tennessee, and a drought in the West that pushed Lake Mead water levels in Nevada to their lowest point since 1956.
• Climate change is described as having an unambiguous connection to extreme weather and is expected to worsen air quality, reduce food supplies and crop yields, and increase the frequency of unpredictable weather such as thunderstorms, flashfloods, droughts, wildfires, and hurricanes.

APA

Berning, N. (2010). Memorandum for journalists covering extreme weather in summer 2010 and links to climate change. Friends of the Earth. https://foe.org/news/2010-08-memorandum-for-journalists-covering-extreme-weather/

Chicago

Berning, Nick. Memorandum for journalists covering extreme weather in summer 2010 and links to climate change. Friends of the Earth, 2010. https://foe.org/news/2010-08-memorandum-for-journalists-covering-extreme-weather/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{berning2010memorandum, author = {Berning, Nick}, title = {{Memorandum for journalists covering extreme weather in summer 2010 and links to climate change}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth}, year = {2010}, month = aug, url = {https://foe.org/news/2010-08-memorandum-for-journalists-covering-extreme-weather/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }