Your periodic reminder that 15 years ago the entire global financial system nearly collapsed cos of a relatively small number of mortgage defaults in the US. This is what people mean when they talk about climate change being a systemic risk.

No place is immune to the damaging effects of climate change. Dr. Jesse Keenan from Tulane University and Dr. @JolaAdapts from Emory University join us to discuss how we can build more resilient communities and better prepare for the future. sciencefriday.com/segments/ashev…

Sad word is spreading from Boulder that the pioneering NCAR climate scientist and Medal of Science laureate Warren Washington has passed from this Earth he studied and cherished with such vigor for so long. More soon but listen to @DrShepherd2013 below for just a little of Dr

Just weeks after the removal of dams restored a free-flowing Klamath River, salmon have made their way upstream to begin spawning and have been spotted in Oregon for the first time in more than a century. latimes.com/environment/st…

So sad to hear of the passing of my good friend & hero, Warren Washington. Warren was apioneer both in the science of climate change and in communicating the implications to policymakers. It was my great honor to share the Tyler Prize with him in 2019 (tylerprize.org/laureates/past…).

Here's a wonderful video tribute to the work and life of climate scientist Warren Washington after he was given the National Medal of Science by Barack Obama: 2009 National Medal of Science Laureate for his development and use of global climate models. Produced for the National

This is a particularly fine video portrait of NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research climate scientist Warren Washington, who passed away this weekend. More: x.com/revkin/status/…

CO2 capture is a failed technology. “The very industry that should be paying for cleaning up emissions is instead pocketing billions in public money that should go to transitioning to renewables.” Carbon capture is not the answer to the climate crisis theguardian.com/theobserver/20…

🚨🚨🚨 This is the "Origins" story of #H5N1 in U.S. Read it, flag it, share it. Incredible investigative report by Katherine Eban in VANITY FAIR. Too many details to thread. CDC Dept. of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Vice President JD Vance The White House World Health Organization (WHO) H/t to all brave enough to speak up

Yesterday 44 of the world’s leading climate scientists wrote an open letter about collapse of the Atlantic Ocean’s circulation (AMOC) When I interviewed one of them about the consequences of AMOC reaching a tipping point he could barely keep it together. 🧵

Congratulations to the hard-working UF College of Journalism and Communications & Mizzou Journalism journalists who’ve won the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Outstanding Student Reporting Award for their fertilizer investigation, The Price of Plenty! So proud, w/ coteachers Sara Shipley Hiles & Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️: sej.org/outstanding-st…

Congrats to ⁦PSA Podium⁩ Cicero speechwriting award winners ⁦Aaron Hoover⁩ and ⁦Cynthia Barnett⁩, honored in DC today. FLORIDA ⁦UF College of Journalism and Communications⁩ ⁦David Murray⁩

Carbon capture instead of stopping oil & gas EVs instead of reducing car dependency Ocean cleanups instead of stopping plastic production Planting trees instead of ending deforestation Ever notice how all the fashionable 'solutions' are all aimed at not changing anything?

Winner of Badass Bookstore Logo of the Year: Lauren Groff ‘s The Lynx Books in Gainesville FL (I visited last weekend for a book event and discussion w/ Jane Gilbert and the bookstore itself - which champions banned books — is just as sexy and smart as the logo)

Mother Nature is just getting started. Until we stop pouring our fossil fuel poison into her systems.  cnn.com/2024/10/25/wea…

MUST READ from ⁦Jeff Goodell⁩ The Climate Case for Kamala rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Hearing from Krista Slyter ⁦Florida DEP News⁩ talking resilience projects and huge kudos from programs dream team, FL’s CRO, Flood Hub director and CSO, thanks from ⁦Florida Sea Grant⁩ for speaking at Flooding Adaptation Symposium

.Kati Migliaccio distinguished herself as the natural choice to accelerate the rise of UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences to national prominence in the teaching of #AI and its use as an instructional tool. UF IFAS Solutions will always be thankful to UF IFAS CALS Dean, having set the pace for a historic decade.

A huge and heartfelt CONGRATULATIONS to our hardworking and passionate chair of ABE who has been selected as the new dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences! Kati Migliaccio will assume her new role starting January 1st 2025

Thanks to Florida Climate Inst for funding this senior capstone, and to the wonderful Cynthia Barnett and Kylie Williams for seeing it through once I left the state. WUFT News and #EJUF plan to report more without me once it receives emergency documents for each dam.