🌎 Medical experts are worried about climate change. Here's how it can harm your health.

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🌎 Medical experts are worried about climate change. Here's how it can harm your health.

As the world nears the end of what could be the hottest year in recorded history and heads into one predicted to be even hotter, a report underscores the health consequences of the warming climate.

The annual report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, describes a "grave and mounting threat" if we fail to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, especially given the evidence of worsening world health as the planet warms.

It outlines many ways this warming trend is already impacting the health of Americans. They include heat waves that stress young and old bodies and threaten to overwhelm hospitals; droughts and floods that endanger the food supply; the spread of disease to new areas, the extension and altered timing of allergy seasons; increases in air pollution and the growing scale of lethal fires.

Read more here from USA Today.

In other local news...

👮🏽‍♂️ A man who killed his teen stepson and buried him under the family’s Salinas home nearly 40 years ago was denied parole once more this week. Jackson Villarta, 69, received a three-year denial. Read more from our own Chelcey Adami.

🌴 Salinas City Council decides to not change weed ordinance. Some of those proposed changes the council decided against include: reducing the buffer distance between dispensaries and places like schools and religious institutions, reported KION.

Elsewhere in California...

⚾️ The Oakland Athletics still don’t exactly know where they’ll be playing the next few years, but in 2028, they will be become Las Vegas’ first Major League Baseball team.

🚚 Local and state officials braced the public for a potential long-term closure of Interstate 10 in downtown Los Angeles, one day after Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency to help facilitate cleanup and repairs following a damaging pallet yard fire.

📚 Pride flag is gone. Library books are under review. It’s a new era of backlash politics in California, reports Cal Matters. Claiming a mandate from voters, Huntington Beach’s conservative council majority has set out to erase any vestige of progressive governance or “wokeism.”

Recipe time...

🥧 I am going to share a recipe each day this week, how about you share yours?

Simple Classic Stuffing

I have to come clean here. I have never tried stuffing. I know, I know. My mom tells me I am missing out every thanksgiving. But I just can't do it. But I found a receipt that has five stars and it says...simple!

Prep Time:  25 minutes   |    Cook Time:  3 hours  |    Servings:  10

Ingredients:

• ¾ cup (1½ sticks) unsalted butter, plus more for baking dish

• 1 lb. good-quality day-old white bread, torn into 1" pieces (about 10 cups)

• 2½ cups chopped yellow onions

• 1½ cups (¼" slices) celery

• ½ cup chopped flat-leaf parsley

• 2 Tbsp. chopped fresh sage

• 1 Tbsp. chopped fresh rosemary

• 1 Tbsp. chopped fresh thyme

• 2 tsp. Diamond Crystal or 1 tsp. Morton kosher salt

• 1 tsp. freshly ground black pepper

• 2½ cups low-sodium chicken broth or vegetable broth, divided

• 2 large eggs

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 250°. Grease a 13x9x2" baking dish with unsalted butter and set aside. Scatter 1 lb. good-quality day-old white bread, torn into 1" pieces (about 10 cups), in a single layer on a rimmed baking sheet. Bake, stirring occasionally, until dried out, about 1 hour. Let cool; transfer to a very large bowl.

• Meanwhile, melt ¾ cup (1½ sticks) unsalted butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat; add 2½ cups chopped yellow onions and 1½ cups (¼" slices) celery to melted butter. Stir often until just beginning to brown, about 10 minutes. Add to bowl with dried bread cubes; stir in ½ cup chopped flat-leaf parsley, 2 Tbsp. chopped fresh sage, 1 Tbsp. chopped fresh rosemary, 1 Tbsp. chopped fresh thyme, 2 tsp. Diamond Crystal or 1 tsp. Morton kosher salt, and 1 tsp. freshly ground black pepper. Drizzle in 1¼ cups low-sodium chicken broth or vegetable broth and toss gently. Let cool.

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Whisk 2 large eggs and remaining 1¼ cups low-sodium chicken broth or vegetable broth in a small bowl. Add to bread mixture; fold gently until thoroughly combined. Transfer to prepared baking dish, cover with foil, and bake until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center of dressing registers 160°, about 40 minutes.

• Make Ahead: Dressing can be made 1 day ahead up to this point. Uncover dressing, let cool, then cover again and chill. The next day, proceed with the final bake as described below.

• Uncover dressing and continue to bake until set and top is golden brown and crisp, 40–45 minutes longer (if chilled, add 10–15 minutes for a total time of 1 hour 30 minutes–1 hour 40 minutes).

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This article originally appeared on Visalia Times-Delta: 🌎 Worried about climate change? Here's how it can harm your health