☀️Summer or ❄️winter? Which season has warmed faster in your town? I found out the rate of temperature change in winter and summer over the past 80 years. On 54% of the planet’s surface, winter has warmed faster than summer. Look up your town here: washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Calling climate change the “climate crisis” or “climate emergency” doesn’t elicit greater concern or a sense of urgency from people, finds new paper polling the US public. “Changing terminology is likely not the key solution for promoting climate action” link.springer.com/article/10.100…

As Ernesto heads north & intensifies, it's expected to generate a massive swath of waves 🌊 Maximum individual wave heights are forecast to reach *60-80 feet*, with Bermuda & Atlantic Canada in the storm's path. Big swells will affect the Mid-Atlantic & Northeast this weekend.

It is official. The Mediterranean sea surface temperature has just set a new heat record. The average sea surface temperature just hit a staggering +28.15°C. 18 out of the top 20 hottest days for the Mediterranean sea surface have been observed in the last 13 months alone.

The Post’s first climate graphics columnist Harry Stevens has received the 2024 Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award from the ASA, which recognizes his years-long journalistic work that uses statistics + explains their role in public life. 🏆 washingtonpost.com/pr/2024/08/14/…

Billion Dollar Disasters: Not the Highest Standards NOAA responds to my request for correction, finding serious problems rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/billion-doll…

NEW: Are you curious about how mosquito season is getting longer in the U.S. due to climate change, and where it’s shrinking? See how it is changing in your area, via ⁦Harry Stevens⁩ washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Cool story. "Mosquito days" are changing in the US, but in both directions. Some places getting so hot & dry that fewer mosquitos (Texas, Calif Central Valley). Story includes way to put in cities. Palo Alto now gets 17 MORE mosquito days. Feels right. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

I wrote about the problems that can arise when generative A.I. is trained on its own output. Spoiler alert: it doesn't always end well. Featuring research by Ilia Shumailov🦔 Zakhar Shumaylov Sina Alemohammad Julia Kempe & others. Here's a paywall-free gift link: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The 2023 Canadian forest fires released about 640 million metric tons of carbon, according to a NASA study. That’s comparable to the annual fossil fuel emissions of a large industrialized nation. The fires were driven by Canada’s warmest and driest conditions in decades.

Solar power increased 10X in the last 10 years. It is on pace to increase ~10X within another 10 years. The will be the equivalent of multiplying the entire world’s fleet of nuclear reactors by 8x in less than the time it takes to build ... one nuclear reactor.

Here's another update to this chart as of Sep 3. Climatologically, only 35% of the season's ACE has occurred by now. The 2024 #HurricaneSeason's dot will fall somewhere in the orange oval (left side if nothing else forms, right side if the rest of the season goes off the rails).

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Unit 4 of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant 🇦🇪 is officially in commercial operation, marking the completion of the first multi-unit nuclear power plant in the Arab world. With all 4 reactors now online, 25% of the UAE’s electricity will come from clean, reliable nuclear energy,