Glaciologist Jason Box is changing focus from documenting ice loss from the Greenland ice sheet, to studying the impacts of that loss on Sea Level Rise in one of the world's most vulnerable areas, South Florida. Nova Southeastern University: Jason Box, Ph.D., an internationally renowned climate scientist and Arctic expert, has been appointed vice president … Continue reading "Greenland Glacier Expert Views Florida's Flooding"

LFG. Those aren't mountains. Yet the delusions are only becoming more vivid. Trump says, "who cares about Texas, we have Greenland."

Been chopping' treesI done somethin' new for this fight I done wrassled wit' an alligatorThat's right I have wrassled wit' an alligatorI done tussled wit' a whale I done handcuffed lightnin'Throwed Thunder in jail That's bad Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stoneHospitalized a brick I'm so mean I make medicine sick … Continue reading "Final Abdul El Sayed Ad Set to Muhammad Ali Rap"

Michael Thomas in Cleanview Newsletter outlines the central challenge for AI Data Centers as they ramp up. It can now take as long as 7 years to connect a data center to the power grid. Beginning about a year ago, developers began pursuing new power strategies. Rather than wait, many data centers are now building … Continue reading "Jet Powered Data Centers a Climate Conundrum"

New HBO movie has Josh Allen, Quarterback Of The Buffalo Bills, as Executive Producer. Fun fact, he's married to actress Hailee Steinfeld, so that's might explain how he got in the movie business. The topic is a human story in the context of a severe weather event - a genre that might be getting new … Continue reading "Trailer: The Buffalo Miracle is a Reminder of Weather Surprises to Come"

Did climate enhanced weather extremes contribute to the crash of a LearJet in Florida yesterday? Fox Weather reported ongoing storms as a "1000 year event", while a business jet caught in a violent thunderstorm lost control, leading to this terrifying audio and video. Bob Henson and Jeff Masters for Yale Climate Connections: Florida's extreme rains … Continue reading "Florida's Severe Weather, Flooding on the Ground, Terror in the Air"

Bloomberg video updates on the progress of Ethiopia's world-leading EV transition. We hear from Trump Energy Secretary and fossil fuel grifter Chris Wright about how much they care about the poor people in Africa, who want nothing more than to become dependent on unreliable and predatory US companies for their economic lifeline. Turns out, what … Continue reading "Ethiopia's EV Push Based on $ - Not Climate"

Alarm bells ringing all over about Trump's post election plans to expand an already catastrophic Oil war. One way the fossil fuel industry could end civilization even faster than catastrophic climate change - would be if greed and delusional leaders drive an Oil war into a kinetic nuclear conflict. Senator Chris Murphy (D - Connecticut) … Continue reading "Is Trump Planning the Mother of All Miscalculations?"

New York Times reports this morning that "The war with Iran has been very lucrative for American oil companies, which have earned more than $130 billion in profit as people pay much higher prices for gasoline, diesel and other fuel." Citing a Brown University Climate Lab study, the Times reported "As of this week, Americans … Continue reading "Americans Paying Biggest Price for Hormuz Oil Shock"

The UK Defense Secretary Wes Streeting has warned that citizens should be ready for emergencies related to climate extremes, or cyber attacks on energy infrastructure. According to the BBC, Streeter reminded the country of wildfires that burned this summer, and flooding expected this winter. In response, many citizens are adopting some form of "prepper" lifestyle. … Continue reading "UK Tells Citizens "Be Ready" for Climate, Energy Disruptions"

Above, ABC report mentions King Tide Flooding in South Florida, but has more details on continued El Niño driven flooding on the California coast. No mention of the impact of climate change in raising the baseline sea level. Below, Glaciologist Jason Box posted this account from on the scene in Florida.

One dead and five missing as giant oil rig collapsed in the Atlantic off Gabon. Yahoo News reported that "…a pollution response team had been deployed to protect the coastline and nearby Mayumba National Park." Because this rig was not in an active phase of extraction, and was in much shallower water than the infamous … Continue reading "African Oil Rig Collapse Revives Memories of Deepwater Horizon"

Peter Sinclair in the Midland Daily News: Dr. Andrea Dutton is an Oceanographer at the University of Wisconsin, and a winner of the MacArthur "Genius award. As I spoke to her about climate driven sea level rise, she illustrated her points with sweeping waves of her arms.She traced a graceful upward swoop of an imaginary … Continue reading "Column: El Niño Giving a Glimpse of the Future"

Yellow Dot Studio, which has a history of producing high quality, laugh-because-it-hurts videos with climate themes, has a new one, voiced by Woody Harrelson.

The clean technology that Republicans love, and to be fair, the one that I still think could be a dark horse going forward, is geothermal. Video above discusses in detail some of the red flags that are causing a wave of short selling of Fervo, the leading Geothermal contender. Thermal decline, excessive water loss, and … Continue reading "Short Selling a Red Flag for Geothermal"

Michigan State University is doing a good job thru its Ag Extension Service providing accurate information to local officials who are the critical front line to get clean energy and infrastructure sited in a timely manner. A few weeks ago I attended an event for local officials near Saginaw, Michigan, to assess the messaging. For … Continue reading "Educating Local Officials on Clean Energy Facts"

Fungal infections are on the rise, including Cladophialophora bantiana , which is the cause of a small, but increasing number of serious brain infections, and some observers believe is adapting, due to climate change, to live in the warmer confines of the human body. That's basically the elevator pitch for "The Last of Us", the … Continue reading "Could Little Known Fungus be Following "Last of Us" Script?"

Above, former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm describes how aggregating small batteries at homes and businesses, (as well as rooftop solar, smart thermostats, and other "Distributed Energy Resources" - DERs) is a quick, cheap and effective way to not only power new demand, like Data Centers, but gain the social license and community support to do … Continue reading "It's Happening: Virtual Power Plants Bring Speedy Power Online"

Good explainer from Public Media in California on the ongoing battery storage boom in California, which is neck and neck with deep Red Texas in deploying clean energy and storage. The graphs below from CAISO, the California grid operator, shows how batteries are changing the way that grid works - allowing massive and growing solar … Continue reading "California in Battery Boom, and It's Just Warming Up"

The Berkeley Earth monthly global temperature numbers show continued warming with a few striking points, notably a record high temperature for oceans, most likely related to the ongoing El Niño event, which has reached record strength, eclipsing 2015 and even the 1877 event, the largest on record. We may be in the strongest El Niño … Continue reading "Oceans Hit Record High as El Niño Emerges as Strongest Ever"

Predicting how the millionth domino will fall. MIT uses AI to peer further into chaotic weather systems. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: In 2021, Texas suffered the worst energy infrastructure failure in state history, following three severe winter storms in February. At least 246 people were killed as a result of the disruptions, which led to … Continue reading "MIT Extends Weather Forecasting Window"

AP reports the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has a new evaluation of global efforts to mitigate climate change, and the US is failing. Associated Press: If all the countries do what they promise to reduce heat-trapping emissions, Earth will likely still warm another 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.2 degrees Celsius) above current temperatures, according to … Continue reading "Report: Losing Ground on Climate Change, US at Fault. Is there a Silver Lining?"

Ambitious. I'm wondering about this messaging, which is pretty explicit visually and in the script above about the connection to Data Centers. Not that there's anything wrong with that. The Nuclear Company: The Nuclear Company today announced Prosperity One, a proposed nuclear energy campus in Lewis County, Kentucky, that could accommodate up to six Westinghouse … Continue reading "Nuclear Siting is a Heavy Lift. This Messaging Might Not be Helpful"

Above, send up of our most recent and short tenured White House Press Secretary, done with AI, and you have to give credit where due, pretty damn funny, For balance, and also pretty damn funny, Josh Johnson below.

Reports from Asia, Africa. Some good explanatory graphics. Gives climate context at the end. Climate change is not established to make stronger El Nino's, but each new El Niño is riding on top of a warming world. That said, new research is suggestive of a connection. University of Michigan: As an El Niño of historic … Continue reading "BBC El Niño Update: Impacts are Now Global"

Political art is ephemeral but memorable when it hits home like this one.

Reuters has a full interactive report on this here. Reuters on X: In the 1960s, the biggest heat wave covered about 6% of the planet. This decade's biggest touched almost 85% of the globe over 367 days. Calling that a 'heat wave' is like calling a monsoon a rain shower. So Reuters worked with climate … Continue reading "Reuters: When is a Heat Wave a Heat Storm?"

Long time readers here will be familiar with Chris Gloninger and his story. As Chief Meteorologist for KCCI Des Moines, Chris was a national leader in putting his weather stories into climate context - until the death threats started, and, he tells me now, the Station management that had previously encouraged science coverage lost their … Continue reading "TV Meteorologists Silenced by Trump, FCC, Corporate Stations- Time to Blow the Whistle"

NOAA:

Digger is that Tom Cruise Climate Catastrophe movie you might not have been expecting. I watched the trailer a few months ago and was not clear this was a "climate change movie". In fact, that's kind of what bugs me. Climate change is a fact. It's not just settled physics, it's happening all around us, … Continue reading "Not Everyone Will Dig Divisive "Digger""

White House policy under the Trump administration has dealt a massive, and I would argue, possibly fatal financial blow to the US auto industry by cancelling tax incentives for EV sales, even after US companies had invested heavily in that space. But incentives remain for BESS - Battery Energy Storage Systems - that back up … Continue reading "Wall Street Week on the US Battery Boom"

When an "emergency" is not really like an emergent emergency. I heard from some folks who were freaked out by this news item. It's one more artifact of a changing climate. Unseasonably warm October weather, coming at a time when utilities typically have generators and transmission infrastructure down for maintenance, has put some pressure on … Continue reading "About that Energy "Emergency" This Week"

About two weeks ago I spoke to Bryan and Tammy Walker, of Coldwater, Michigan, farmers who have leased a portion of their land for a new solar facility. Their comments indicated a keen awareness of the newly created safe habitat that has been created under hundreds of formerly farmed acres. Bryan mentioned how withholding agricultural … Continue reading "Haven for Wild Life - Emerging Benefit of Solar Farms"

Extreme close up view of fastening a massive wind turbine blade to a hub. In 2020, I documented the construction of the Isabella Wind farm in Michigan, and came to understand the Crane operator's Brain surgeon skills.

"A David Attenborough doc, shot by someone on Shrooms." Ok, I'm interested.

Last year, a big battery in California caught fire, and became a PR problem for the energy storage industry. Then, a few weeks ago, it happened again. Inside Climate News: On Jan. 16, 2025, the Vistra Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility, about 20 miles south of Monterey, burned for several days and distributed a fine … Continue reading "New Fire at California Battery Plant Can't Stop BESS Momentum"

Local news report above on massive efforts to keep Southern California's iconic beaches intact in the face of Sea Level Rise and the current extreme El Niño. The report discusses "sea level rise", but not underlying, human caused, global warming. As El Nino's westerly winds pile Pacific waters up against the west coast, and additional … Continue reading "Surf City No More. Rising Seas Threaten California's Beaches"

If you back up from Planet Earth 50,000 miles and squint a little, what you see is a massive struggle lead by fossil fuel oligarchs, to cling to their power.

Probably 6 or 7 years ago, I got an email out of the blue from a local insurance agent, well known in the industry, and a pillar of the local Republican establishment. He had heard me on the radio and wanted to have coffee. We've met several times, and continue to exchange emails. He agrees … Continue reading "Home Insurance Emerges as Climate Fueled Campaign Issue"

CBC: New research investigated two massive landslides in the Mackenzie River basin that happened nearly a decade ago.  The two landslides in question happened on the Johnson River and the Redstone River, recorded in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Researchers call them "permafrost detachment slides", as they determined their cause stands apart from other similar events … Continue reading "In Canada's North, Giant Permafrost Slides Show Climate Feedback"

Daniel Swain PhD of the University of California is one of my favorite explainers of Atmospheric physics. I excerpted 4 minutes above from his invaluable "Office Hours" YouTube of October 13. You can view the whole thing here. TLDR - it's going to keep getting worse, and is already spreading up the coast, as local … Continue reading "Daniel Swain PhD with El Niño Update"

Some genius shit here. "Nothin' Pleases Jesus like a Firin' Squad."

I learned a lot here. Watch these three videos and you'll have a much better perspective on what is happening with water in the Southwest. "We are not running out of water, we are running out of cheap water." It's not Data Centers, sorry. Would that it were that easy. Below, I spoke to Brad … Continue reading "Watch This to Understand the Colorado River Water Crisis"

Wikipedia: The Long Beach Oil Field is a large oil field underneath the cities of Long Beach and Signal Hill, California, in the United States. Discovered in 1921, the field was enormously productive in the 1920s, with hundreds of oil derricks covering Signal Hill and adjacent parts of Long Beach; largely due to the huge output of this field, the Los Angeles Basin produced … Continue reading "Chickens -> Roost. LA's Oil Boom Bites Back"

PJM is the Transmission System Operator that covers the Mid Atlantic area, along with some slices of midwestern states. Expected to strain due to warm weather this week, during a time when utilities have historically had lower demand, and make plans for scheduling needed maintainence on generating units. If that maintenance is not done, could … Continue reading "Emergency Alert Issued for Mid Atlantic Grid"

It's still a beautiful world. Plenty of work to do.

So, now they're thinking about water? Full disclosure I just never got the attraction of living in a Desert. I don't get Phoenix, or Tuscon, or Las Vegas. I just don't see how this ends well. Now, a whole lot of people who moved to the desert and built Golf courses and fountains are starting … Continue reading "Arizona Voters Worry about Water - But are Data Centers to Blame?"

Not that long ago (July), I spoke to Global Temp expert Zeke Hausfather, and he mentioned an increased rate of warming which he quantified at .26 or .28 C per decade. New paper has .40 C. Nature - A recent doubling of global warming rate signals a 1.5 °C breach by 2028: Here we analyze … Continue reading "Big if True: New Paper Finds Doubling in Planet's Rate of Warming"