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New preliminary research suggests that a combination of higher atmospheric CO2 and hotter temperatures contribute to a reduction in nutritional quality in food crops, with serious implications for human health and wellbeing.

I'll note that the converse also applies — because warmer air can hold more water, it can remove more water through evaporation too, so droughts can also end up being worse.

To be clear, "ignoring" doesn't mean doing nothing; the Democrats actually passed major climate legislation that was then dismantled once the Republicans took power. It mostly means that they're not campaigning on it right now.

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Summers have been heating up for decades, and they’ll only get hotter if heat-trapping pollution continues — making future summers in Minneapolis feel more like current summers in Tulsa.

With high levels of heat-trapping pollution, future summer high temperatures in 247 major U.S. cities would heat up by an average of 3.6°F by 2060 and 7.9°F by 2100. This analysis shows how future warming could transport a city’s current climate to an entirely different part of the country — or the world — with reduced commitments to lower carbon pollution .

On average, summer high temperatures across the 247 cities analyzed are projected to increase 3.6°F by 2060 and 7.9°F by 2100. Mitchell, S.D. is projected to warm the most by 2100 (11.1°F), when it will feel more like Wichita Falls, Texas.

By the end of this century, summers in the cities analyzed would shift to resemble hotter locations an average of 437 miles to the south. For 16 U.S. cities, there is no equivalent in North America to how hot they’d be in 2100. Their future summers are more similar to current conditions in Pakistan, the Middle East, and North Africa.

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The fact that police are routinely dragging protesters off the streets for a crime they almost always fail to charge them with amounts to an abuse of their powers and an assault on the right to protest.