Currently in D.C. — October 5, 2023: The clouds start coming back

The weather, currently.

And here we go. After several sunny days with clear skies, the clouds start to come back today. We should be able to get some of our rays on, but it will mostly be cloudy. Temperatures stay consistent with what we have been experiencing throughout the week, though. The highest will be 81°F around three in the afternoon, and it will gradually drop to 64°F by nightfall. It will also be extremely humid.

A shout out for curly haired people like me: let’s just embrace it. Singing along to Robyn Froese: “Humidity has curled my hair the way he likes. It's Heavy, it’s heavy.”

— Myriam Vidal Valero

What you need to know, currently.

Pope Francis, the spiritual leader of more than a billion Christians worldwide, has issued a forceful new call for bold climate action.

The document is addressed specifically to the world’s wealthy and privileged, particularly in the US and Europe, to show compassion for people around the world who have done little to cause the climate emergency and who are already feeling its effects profoundly.

“Our responses have not been adequate, while the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point,” he wrote.

The Pope called for a transition away from lifestyles of consumption and extraction and towards a more ecologically-focused society. His message is timely as the world prepares to gather in Dubai for the latest global climate negotiations next month.

In 2015, Pope Francis made a similar appeal in advance of the Paris climate accords, and was widely credited at helping steer the conversation away from the impersonal numbers and scientific debate towards justice and social progress.

— Eric Holthaus

What you can do, currently.

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