protesting electric vehicles is like protesting chemotherapy for not only killing cancer cells

i'm no musk fangirl but blocking the people who are building solutions to the climate crisis is actually INSANE

do you want fossil energy dependency? bc this is how you get it

North Texas is bracing for huge hail and the South could get a derecho on Thurs night — just the latest in a week of tornadoes and other severe weather plaguing large parts of the country. Climate Connections

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Excellent summary of Texas weather trends by the state climatologist: 100-degree days at typical stations are expected to increase 4x by 2036 compared to 1970-1989. texas2036.org/wp-content/upl…

Let’s hope Solow is right.

Mid-latitude cyclones are expected to generate more extreme winds poleward, and less extreme equatorward.

A rare hurricane-strength tropical cyclone is headed toward Tanzania, which rarely sees tropical cyclones because it is so close to the equator. yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/05/a-rare…

“…1979–2020 obs reveal a global mean TC intensification rate increase of 3 kt per 24-hr close to the coast… decreases in vertical wind shear & increases in humidity relative to the open oceans are responsible. TC intensification will continue to rise under global warming.”

Great take here: “This is a multigenerational task. We need what’s been called ‘cathedral thinking.’ That is, the people who started working on that stone foundation, they never saw the thing finished. It took generations to get these major works done.' yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/04/how-to…

Many recent U.S. tornado outbreaks have slammed the Mississippi Valley and Southeast, but on Friday and Saturday 4/26-4/27, the Tornado Alley of the Great Plains reasserted itself in a grim way. Climate Connections

yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/04/at-lea…

'We are preparing for the wrong disaster almost everywhere,” said Dr. Rob Young of Western Carolina's Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines. “These smaller changes will be a greater threat over time than the next hurricane, no question about it.' wapo.st/3JYXTcp

'A climate-driven migration has already begun,” writes climate change journalist Abrahm Lustgarten in his must-read book, “On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America.' Part 2 of my review is his take on climate migration and Atlanta:

yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/04/atlant…

If you’re looking for a book that can help inform your personal choices on how to prepare for the future of climate change in the U.S., 'On the Move' by Abrahm Lustgarten is the best one I’ve seen yet. yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/04/book-r…

Great to see you back, Guy! Missed having you around.

Prescient 1966 NFIP task force report: 'A flood insurance program is a tool that should be used expertly or not at all. Correctly applied, it could promote wise use of floodplains. Incorrectly applied, it could exacerbate the whole problem of flood losses. susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/two-federals…

Global weather disasters Jan-Mar 2024 cost $31 billion, with 10 billion-dollar events. Costliest: Mar. 12-17 U.S. severe weather outbreak ($4.2 billion). 10-yr average: 10 billion-dollar events, $43 billion in damage. Jan-Mar 2023: 12 billion-dollar events, $61 billion in damage.

Cryptocurrency mining accounts for 0.6-2.3% of US electricity consumption. A code change by the Ethereum cryptocurrency reduced its energy consumption 99.9%, but the Bitcoin Mining Council opposes the code change for Bitcoin (43% of the global market). pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/a…

My latest post summarizes March 2024, the planet’s 10th consecutive warmest month on record. Remarkable that 5 nations/territories set an all-time heat record for any month, and an additional 24 set an all-time March heat record.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/04/earth-…

Cholera spreads through unclean drinking water. The current outbreaks are being driven by “conflict and climate disasters that force people into crowded living situations without adequate sanitation systems.” More vaccine production coming, though. nytimes.com/2024/04/11/hea…

The area in red actually had the best viewing conditions for the eclipse.

Bust

Our new paper in Nature Communications shows that all coastal defences have a positive economic return over a 20 year lifespan but hybrid coastal defence measures perform best. nature.com/articles/s4146…