Climate change is complex, but the math of CO2 is actually pretty simple. Increasing emissions ➡️ faster warming Flat emissions ➡️ constant warming Decreasing emissions ➡️ slowing warming Zero emissions ➡️ stopping warming Negative emissions ➡️ cooling

“Shaping weather-related outcomes through energy policy is incredibly indirect and there are often much more direct solutions at hand.” Patrick T. Brown unpacks what intensified the Park Fire and the lessons learned for Breakthrough journal

No hurricane has ever crossed the equator, due to the Coriolis force. [🎞️ Robert Rohde]

Climate Feedback pointers —> positive feedbacks reinforce an initial warming or cooling, negative feedbacks dampen it —> The Earth climate system is dominated by negative feedback, but less negative (more positive) than if it simply adjusted its temperature to radiate away the

Today's New York Times The Daily podcast on air conditioning is bizarre. nytimes.com/2024/08/16/pod… These passages are quite remarkable to me. They argue that air conditioning is “unsustainable” partially because it requires energy that produces greenhouse gasses that warm the

4. The most common criticism ACs receive is "sure that would be great, but scientists will never be willing to do them." This is an indictment of scientists. Funders, editors, reviewers, and the public should not tolerate widespread refusal to put our theories to severe tests.

"When The New York Times discusses climate change, every °F of warming is framed as extremely detrimental, but when they discuss air conditioning, many degrees of warming is framed as matter of inconvenience that can be overcome by cultural change." Must read. 👇

"Losses are still so often pinned on climate change, which misdirects public attention away from broader questions about housing development, land management, and insurance industry business practices." Jessica Weinkle writes on exposure growth for Breakthrough journal

Outstanding Jacobin piece by Holly Jean Buck on the paternalism & condescension of climate intellectuals focusing on so-called disinformation & casting legitimate concerns by ordinary people esp workers in industry, logistics, agriculture, as climate denial jacobin.com/2024/08/climat…

I've been checking on post #ParkFire conditions on properties where ButtePBA had prescribed burned in Cohasset. This shot shows fire effects in unthinned oak and brush areas vs adjacent thinned and rx-burned (4/2024) black oaks. The black oak will survive, brush is resprouting.

Climate change is likely to alter aspects of how we produce and consume food. But, the oft-repeated claims that our food systems are about to collapse due to climate shocks, soil degradation, or extreme weather have little basis in reality. Read my latest for @thebti Journal:

In light of the NYT running (at the start of Labor Day weekend no less) that op-ed proselytizing against air conditioning, re-upping this excellent post from Patrick T. Brown in defense of air conditioning's benefits.

The average worker in wealthy countries now works only about half as many hours per year as in the late 19th century. Based on data from economic historians Michael Huberman and Chris Minns, the average worker used to work between 2,700 and 3,500 hours per year, which is about

Top factors driving big global losses from extreme events are rising exposure in hazard zones, inflation adding to rebuilding costs, with co2-driven global warming "currently the minor factor" but growing in decades ahead. I've been writing that #expandingbullseye story for so

Is high-impact climate science really just “science”? Greg Mankiw’s, Principles of Macroeconomics textbook makes an interesting distinction between the different roles that economists play: “When economists are trying to explain the world, they are scientists. When they are

The horrible irony that is emerging is that politicians see that they gain short run votes by railing against "price gouging". Our economy's adaptation troubles begin when prices for water, insurance, electricity aren't allowed to fluctuate.