There's an 85-percent chance of an above-normal hurricane season, with 17–25 named storms of tropical-storm intensity.

More info: https://www.axios.com/2024/05/23/atlantic-hurricane-season-forecast-noaa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiospm&stream=top

Over the past three years, battery storage capacity on the nation’s grids has grown tenfold--and probably will double in 2024.

More info:  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/07/climate/battery-electricity-solar-california-texas.html?searchResultPosition=1

This year, 20% of the cars sold in the world will be electric, the IEA projects.

More info: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/cars/electric-vehicle-sales-forecast-iea/index.html

The ocean has broken temperature records every day for more than a year.

More info: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/climate/ocean-heat-records.html?campaign_id=54&emc=edit_clim_20240411&instance_id=119918&nl=climate-forward&regi_id=66704053&segment_id=163218&te=1&user_id=97eb24ff9121d1a70f01fac05f86ea1b

Food prices and overall inflation will rise as temperatures climb with climate change, according to a new study.

More info: https://apnews.com/article/inflation-climate-change-food-prices-heat-6e5297e12868aaf797529bb755268818

A new plane designed to carry wind turbine blades as long as football fields could dramatically increase onshore wind energy production.

More info: https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/how-the-worlds-biggest-plane-would-supersize-wind-energy-2f116e9b?mod=hp_lead_pos8 

20,000 Teslas are about to flood the US used-car market, as Hertz seeks to shed a third of its electric vehicle fleet. It will offer a chance to snag a Tesla for well below market rate.

More info: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240222-used-electric-vehicle-market-ev-prices

For the first time, the global average surface temperature anomaly exceeded 1.5°C during a 12-month period (Feb. 2023-Jan 2024).

More info: https://www.axios.com/2024/02/08/january-2024-global-temperatures-paris-target

Fossil fuel companies should pay a carbon tax, say 68% of American adults.

More info:  https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAqsitBhDlARIsAGMR1RjQokP13jJgRngiwuTj75zGHY9Gnv2rUJJofPTnnJb_8qzikdHC0h4aAkInEALw_wcB

In New Mexico construction has begun on a wind and power transmission project, the largest of its kind in the US, to provide power to 3 million people in Arizona and California.

More info: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/climate-environment/u-s-s-biggest-renewable-project-is-under-way-finally-22b5a6ad