I’ve argued for some time that a kid with a ruler would do as well as complicated climate/societal models predicting rates of temperature rise. Turns out I was wrong. No wait! The models didn’t predict it either… hey kid, got a moment?

There will be intensifying constraints on growth, and deepening uncertainty. Ultimately, you cannot make an unsustainable system resilient -by definition.

The major problem that humanity faces is the persistent failure to understand that we’re fundamentally no different than any other system in the universe

Dr. Robert Rohde Humanity's energy demands are constantly increasing, relying on a growing supply of fossil fuels and the so-called "renewable" energy sources. Civilization grows by efficiently using an energy surplus to transform the earth's crust into the stuff of us" x.com/nephologue/sta…

So it turns out snowflake settling is full of surprises. Not just size, not just shape, not just density, not just turbulence, but perhaps more than anything it is the mean wind horizontal winds speeds that controls how fast snowflakes fall essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.22…

In 2017 at a small meeting in Switzerland on energy and the economy, experts scolded me that the economy would collapse from resource depletion and debt, certainly by 2025. I argued inertia would keep it growing longer (not forever). Here we are. Physics actually works! Always.

Wasatch Weather Weenies: Why the National Science Foundation Matters: wasatchweatherweenies.blogspot.com/2025/02/why-na…

Big graupel and water totals at Alta today. Peak hourly water equivalent so far is 0.41" The record at that site is 0.54" from 10-11 UTC 5 Jan 2008. Radar image below. Snowfall generated over the Alpine Ridge in a southwesterly atmospheric river just ahead of a cold front.

The neoliberal dream of fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch was always the destruction of US democracy and the elimination of government (except for its repressive organs police, courts, prisons, military ofc), and now he has won. What now? A short 🧵. 1/ theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f…

"A potentially more concerning explanation for the drop in cloud cover is an emerging low-cloud feedback, whereby low cloud cover decreases with rising temperature, which...could lead to more future warming than currently anticipated"

When will we draw a link between an accelerating rise in CO2 emissions and the surge in renewables? Renewables do not replace, they do not simply add, but by catalyzing the construction of a hungry civilization, they spur

Jason W. Moore CO2/GHG are the waste products of a combustion-driven & interconnected civilisation and must be addressed globally. UK emission cuts are irrelevant amid rising global CO2 levels.what Arnaud as a China Lobbyists is defending is the growth paradigm. x.com/nephologue/sta…

Jason W. Moore And there is this in case Arnaud Bertrand is interested: x.com/nephologue/sta…

This could be better framed as asking “what will the OBBB bill do for the global economy?”. The global economy is stably carbon based. So, if it hurts the economy through idiocy then it reduces CO2 emissions

Not the first time I've posted this, but I always find it quite fascinating how well it continues to hold. For over *two thousand years*, atmospheric CO2 perturbations have scaled with the world GDP. Aren't the implications for climate change mitigation pretty simple...?

We just checked and there’s still no snow in the forecast.   In the 1940s, the study of snow science and avalanche mitigation in North America began right here at Alta, thanks to the work of intrepid USFS Snow Rangers. 🎥: Sverre Engen 🤠: Monty Atwater and Ed LaChapelle

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💡What powers the world🕯️ Humanity's energy demands are constantly increasing, relying on a growing supply of fossil fuels & "renewable" energy."Civilization grows by efficiently using an energy surplus to transform the earth's crust into the stuff of us" x.com/nephologue/sta…

“The Arctic Ocean became a net CO2 source…contributing to prolonged carbon input, temperature rise and ocean acidification during the PETM. These findings highlight potential major perturbations to Arctic carbon cycling under future climate change.”

The arc of history is long but it bends towards a lethally hot supercontinent 250 million years from now