I've just had a really sad chat with a 13 year old kid who can remember what it was like being clever.

FAKE SCIENCE
'...the Pixley digester may have been approved with faulty information. The CEC awarded grant money to the project based on research contributed by a former professor with a history of data fabrications who had contracts with the digester’s designer and builder.

dispatch, o Heavens,
hosts celestial
to enfold the endangered
in wings of protection,
to call souls
from violence to peace,
to sustain the exhausted
with grace & courage
& resilience.

help & shield & save, good God,
thy vulnerable children.

Amen.

78% of Earth's oceans are currently experiencing a marine heatwave (MHW) 🌡️ 🌊

The event in the Mediterranean & Black Sea is extreme.

MHWs near the UK & southwest of Spain may be of significance to the relentless rains in the UK, as air flows over these en route to the country.

goodGod,
call hearts to love
guide souls to peace
grace persons to be safe
bless peoples to be free.
amen.

This is an animation for North America that shows how much each days daily normal precipitation is as a fraction of the annual normal total precipitation (based on the 1991-2020 period).

“I opened my claim, which is what you were supposed to do. But (the insurance company) would only cover a day’s worth of clothes for my family”.

That claim, for which nothing was paid, remains open. Eventually, her insurance agent quit taking her calls.
spokesman.com/stories/2024/a….

Theres an important new study from many of the leading researchers on paleoclimate and climate sensitivity.

They provide a new, more robust estimate of climate sensitivity from the last glacial maximum, suggesting a sensitivity of 2.9C (95%: 2.1 to 4.1C) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Due to #California 's water management at least two species of salmon & most of our native fish are facing extinction, commercial & recreational fishing is shut down, Tribes don'y have access to salmon & water quality is suffering, but CA - DWR is celebrating dams for #EarthDay ?

In memory of Dr. Ruth Reck, who passed away yesterday, I'm sharing this article detailing her early (1960s) work as a pioneering climate scientist at General Motors Research Labs--including early warnings (then summarily dismissed) on CO2 & global warming. scientificamerican.com/article/a-woma…

Almost 10 years ago, we showed that summer circulation in the atmosphere in the northern hemisphere is weakening, including the jetstream and stormtracks. This raises #drought risk.
Now colleagues have shown that this is indeed a result of fossil fuel emissions (& deforestation).

#CALeg you need to hold an oversight hearing on Gavin Newsom’s return to office mandate. It is a huge burden on parents with children.

10000 more people join the California FAIR plan: sfchronicle.com/california/art…

🤣

tonight,
o God,
bless
protect
shield
keep
heal
rest
&
free.
amen.

📢New paper out with Rei Chemke and myself. For the first time we show that #AGW has caused the weakening of summer circulation, including jetstream and stormtracks. Important implications for summer #drought . IVM - VU Amsterdam VU Faculteit der Bètawetenschappen
vu.nl/en/news/2024/s…

More effing brilliant work from this team.

A really excellent lecture that I saw from a doorway to the lecture room because it was overflowing. I already knew about what could happen from palaeo records, but I'm now a lot more concerned we may be nearer to the tipping point than many people assume.

' ... doing nothing and continuing the status quo has already — and will continue to — have real impacts to communities, to the community infrastructure, to livelihoods. And so we’re doing this, I think, because we all recognize that we don’t have a choice.”

My next live session (2pm PT Thu) will focus on remarkable extreme rainfall this week across portions of Arabian Peninsula (including #Dubai ). Did cloud seeding play a role? (Spoiler: likely no!) But how about #ClimateChange ? (Another spoiler: likely yes!) youtube.com/live/o5FtbLoYs…