This thread summarizes the paper:
Voting and Climate Change * How an Extreme Weather Event Increased Support for a Radical-Right Incumbent in Italy
It turns out the only reason they eventually close the beaches or shut down the park in monster movies is because if tourists keep dying you can’t make money off them. If raptors ever get loose in the factory district instead they’ll just be a budget line item, maybe something to ask the government to compensate the companies for. 
The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it’s happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes intensified by a warming planet and drought-fueled wildfires are destroying our communities. Rising seas and flooding are swallowing our homes. And record-breaking heat waves are reshaping our way of life.
It will be very interesting to see if coverage like this goes away after 1/20.
The most concerning potential explanation, however, is that there may be a feedback relationship between rising temperatures and low-level clouds. Meaning that, as the Earth warms, the clouds become sparse, enhancing the warming further. That would be bad news for our future climate, because it suggests that the lower range of warming estimates would have to be adjusted upward to account for it.
The warmer it gets, the faster it gets warmer. Positive feedback loops suck, man. But probably need to get this research done and published quickly. It will be much harder to do in a couple months.
People have pointed out that the Eath’s temperature has changed before, and it has…from much colder in the ice age to much warmer in the Eocene. This should have told them that whatever mechanisms there are maintaining it where it is now must be extremely limited. 
High temperature in Melbourne was 39.4°C at 5:58pm, before the change hit sometime around 8pm.
Other parts of the state up in the direction of the center of the continent were higher.
Walpeup hit 47.1°C at 2:25pm.
And that was with it overcast and grey all day (and concomitantly humid). It was worse when the sun broke through the clouds.
Murdering Eagles to Save the Climate?
The Downside of Wyoming’s Wind Energy Boom
Transmission towers connecting thick high-voltage power lines will stand 180 feet tall, slicing through prime sage-grouse, elk, and mule deer habitat and Colorado’s largest concentration of low-elevation wildlands. The TransWest Express will pass over rivers and streams, chop through forests, stretch over hills, and bulldoze its way through scenic valleys. Many believe this is just the price that must be paid to combat our warming climate and that the impact of the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre projects, and the TransWest Express will be nothing compared to what unmitigated climate chaos will otherwise reap. Some disagree, however, and wonder if such expansive wind farms are really the best we can come up with in the face of climate change.
“This question puts a fine point on the twin looming disasters that humanity has brought upon the Earth: the climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis,” argues Erik Molvar, a wildlife biologist and executive director of the Western Watersheds Project, a Hailey, Idaho-based environmental group. “The climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis are of equal importance to humans and every other species with which we share this globe, and it would be foolhardy to ignore either in pursuit of solutions for the other.”
Even though onshore wind farms kill birds and can disrupt habitats, most scientists believe that wind energy must play a role in the world’s much-needed energy transition. Mark Z. Jacobson, author of No Miracles Needed and director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford University, notes that the minimal carbon emissions in the life-cycle of onshore wind energy are only outmatched by the carbon footprint of rooftop solar. It would be extremely difficult, he points out, to curtail the world’s use of fossil fuels without embracing wind energy.
Scientists are, however, devising novel ways to reduce the collisions that cause such deaths. One method is to paint the blades of the wind turbines black to increase their visibility. A recent study showed that doing so instantly reduces bird fatalities by 70%.
I’ve seen a lot of wind turbines by now, but never with blades painted black.
Interesting. This has apparently been under investigation for a while; the study linked in footnote 9 of the MIT article (from Paint it black: Efficacy of increased wind turbine blade visibility in the Wiley Online Library publication Ecology and Evolution - may be paywalled) is from mid-2020. I also found this interview with one of the authors, Roel May:
Cross posting this here because of the information about changes to warning systems - and what is still needed: