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Hurricanes that Stall
First day of Hurricane season, and scientists are asking new questions about hurricane behavior.…
Hurricane Season 2020. What Could go Wrong?
June 1 marks the traditional opening of the Atlantic Hurricane Season. I spoke to one of the world’s best known hurricane experts, Kerry Emanuel of MIT, back in February. Penn State University Earth Systems Science Center: ESSC scientists Dr. Michael E.…
Music Break: John Lennon – Crippled Inside
Holds up pretty well. Lyrics: You can shine your shoes and wear a suitYou can comb your hair and look quite cuteYou can hide your face behind a smileOne thing you can’t hideIs when you’re crippled inside You can wear…
Recovery Funds Going BackAssWards to the Future?
Sara Bloom Raskin in the New York Times: The Fed is singularly poised to seed strategic investments in future economic stability. Oil, gas and coal companies are set or are seeking to receive billions in federal aid — including at…
Planet of the Humans Dumpster Fire Update
Planet of the Humans, is of course, Michael Moore’s dumpster fire of a movie that’s been taken to the bosom of the fossil fueled, climate denial, and white supremacist internet. A few weeks ago I posted the message from Joanne…
New Video: Breaking Bad News in Florida Keys
More here from my interview with Andrea Dutton in December, at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Scientists keep telling me about the emotional challenges of breaking bad news about climate change. It’s a tightrope.There’s hope we can steer away…
When Did Facts Become Optional?
Jennifer Rubin in the Washington Post: In a reflexive impulse to defy all experts and to glorify know-nothingism, President Trump and his cult followers made mask-wearing verboten for many who identify themselves as “conservative.” Like the Gadsden flag for the…
Michigan Dam Failures Show Midwest Increasingly Vulnerable to Climate Change
I’ve met and interviewed Jason Samenow of the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang several times, most recently at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in December. When the dam failures near me hit the wires last week, he bumped me…
Oil is for Losers. Tulsa wants Tesla
Following Elon Musk’s recent public threat to leave California, he’s being courted by unlikely suitors in the Petro-Belt. Tulsa World: An icon from Tulsa’s pioneering past was used Wednesday to send an unmistakable message to Tesla founder Elon Musk that…
Music Break: CSN&Y – Almost Cut my Hair
It's a weird world when wearing a mask to prevent a deadly disease is like letting your freak flag fly.…
FoxNews Wackjob: Corona Caution is Prelude to Global Warming Police State
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Governor Whitmer on Dam Failures: “Climate is Part of that..”
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Assigning Blame for Dam Disaster
Report from Detroit channel 4, WDIV…
Music Break: Mos Def – New World Water
Lyrics: There’s nothing more refreshing (that cool refreshing drink)Than a cool, crisp, clean gla** of waterOn a warm summer’s day (That cool refreshing drink)Try it with your friends New World Water make the tide rise highCome inland and make your…
More Damn Dam Drones
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Understanding Michigan Dam Failures
Nice explainer of what happened to the multiple dam system that failed this week in Michigan. Below, more on site footage from Mlive:…
A Climate Disaster Hits Home
I’m working on a piece, as it happens, examining the growing realization that the US real estate market is gravely at risk due to steadily increasing climate impacts.In areas exposed to coastal flooding and extreme rains, like Houston, a series…
Cyclone Crushes Corona-Crippled India-Bangladesh
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Climate Change Hits Home
When scientists talk about “Abrupt” climate change, they usually don’t mean the “Day After Tomorrow” scenario with giant waves roaring into New York.What they mean is that slow, incremental change gradually reaches a point where it can suddenly overwhelm infrastructure…
Big Oil Running out of Gas
Bill McKibben in NY Review of Books: “…we now know that Exxon had a full understanding of climate change in the 1980s, but that, instead of alerting the rest of us, it helped build the architecture of deceit and denial…
Reuters Update on Tesla Battery Production
Reuters: Electric car maker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) plans to introduce a new low-cost, long-life battery in its Model 3 sedan in China later this year or early next that it expects will bring the cost of electric vehicles in line…
New Study Confirms: Hurricanes Getting Stronger
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you should know by now that you have an early warning system for developments in climate science. It’s happened again. No brag, just fact. New York Times: Hurricanes have become stronger worldwide…
CBS News: Americans Want Stimulus to Move Us Beyond Fossil Fuels
Description: CBS News meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli spoke to Dr. Ralph Keeling of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCSB political science professor Leah Stokes about the worldwide lockdown and its unremarkable effect on our carbon footprint. Key takeaway:…
Is Bengal Cyclone Evidence of More Climate Fueled Superstorms?
WeatherUnderground: After a spectacular bout of rapid intensification on Sunday, Tropical Cyclone Amphan poses a grave storm-surge threat to the highly vulnerable coastline of the upper Bay of Bengal. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) upgraded Amphan to the equivalent…
Why Cars Rarely Crash into Buildings in the Netherlands
Not exactly climate, but interesting take on a different philosophy of how people move around.Great footage highlighting Amsterdam’s terrific public transit.…
Public Health Experts getting the Climate Scientist Treatment
Andy Slavitt on Twitter: The view from Trump advisors not directly involved in the rising death toll is that the “CDC” (i.e., EPA) wants to burden Trump’s chances of driving economic activity in the 8 states he cares about. The…
“Planet of the Humans” is Garbage: A Review From Downunder
Funny, and he talks Australian, which is always a plus. M. Moore’s movie doing great with the right wing online, but in the real world, it’s sunk his reputation, and is simply irrelevant to the ongoing technological disruption.…
CBS on the Western Megadrought
Recent publications seem to confirm that the American west, as CBS News mentions above. I thought it might be interesting to review the video I did on the topic in 2014, following a particularly brutal dry patch. There has been…
New: Glacier Detachments Can Happen in Seconds
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