Learn more about underwater data centers and how warming ocean temps may make them more obsolete.
The system could become the first hurricane on record to strike Hawaii's Big Island, where up to 25 inches of rain are possible. The post Hawaiian Islands brace for Lala this weekend appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02691-0Although many cities have set net-zero targets, there is limited understanding of their residual emissions strategies. An analysis of 103 European cities reveals best practices but also a potential over-reliance on temporary land-based carbon removal and the limited robustness of compensation strategies.
Open access notables Methane Emissions From Wildfires: Trends and Anomalies , Zhu et al., Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres Wildfires emit smoke particles and trace gases including greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, impacting the environment and leading to detrimental impacts on human health and economy. The estimation of spatially and temporally resolved methane emissions from biomass burning (BB) provides critical information in developing measurement-informed methane inventories. The use of satellite active fire products (fire radiative power) is an effective pathway to investigate wildfire emissions around the world. In this study, the Global BB Emissions Product-eXtended algorithm is employed to estimate long-term temporal variation and geographic...
Plus: Cristobal forms as the Atlantic awakens, with two tropical waves heading toward the Caribbean. The post PTC One-C heads toward Hawaii; life-threatening floods possible appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink AI energy use is a huge and controversial topic at the moment. Credible estimates have AI data centers accounting for around 12% US electricity use by 2030. But at the same time consumers have been given reassuringly small numbers about the impact of their own AI use, numbers that seem on their face somewhat inconsistent with the staggering size of their aggregate usage. In 2025 Google published an article calculating that median Gemini text prompt used only 0.24 watt-hours (Wh), less energy than “watching nine seconds of television”. Around the same time, Sam Altman said that an average ChatGPT query uses about 0.34 Wh, and Epoch AI came out with similar numbers . Writers like Andy Masley and ...
Learn how Titan’s thick atmosphere, methane seas, and icy crust could support future explorers beyond Mars.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 16, 28 August 2026.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters When a weak 45-mph tropical storm named Harvey moved through the Lesser Antilles Islands in August 2017 and then petered out in the central Caribbean Sea, no one could have suspected that the meager clump of clouds that remained would go on to become the second-costliest weather disaster in world history. But after crossing Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula into the Gulf of Mexico, Harvey was rejuvenated, rapidly intensifying into a ferocious Category 4 hurricane that hit Texas just north of Corpus Christi. Harvey's true mischief came after it stalled inland as a tropical storm for two days, dumping at least 40 inches of rain across a gigantic area from Houston to Port Arthur — larger than the entire state...
The global climate in 2025 set several new records, including atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the loss of glacial ice from mountain regions, and the dryness of global soils.
Warming has brought extreme rain to the parched Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill as monsoons grow stronger. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the groundwater revival, say hydrologists, who believe efforts to harvest rainfall may also be paying dividends.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 15, 16 August 2026.
Heatwave conditions are likely to return to many parts of the UK next week as temperatures climb through the weekend and then more significantly, into the middle of next week.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 131, Issue 8, August 2026.
Recent years have seen a boom in books on climate change. This collection spans from techno-optimism to philosophical pessimism. The post 15 new books for five new takes on climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Europe’s forests are losing more biomass than previously thought, with disturbances such as drought and pests causing increasingly large losses from some of the oldest forests in Europe. This situation has deteriorated markedly since 2018.
Learn about the hidden microbial ecosystem that has been living within Antarctica's Blood Falls for over one million years.
This is a re-post from By the Numbers by Hannah Ritchie Over the last week, this chart of wildfire burn in Europe has been doing the rounds on social media and traditional media outlets. Carbon Brief goes through some of this coverage here . The underlying narrative is that Europe is having its lowest wildfire year on record, which is quite at odds with the huge wildfires we see from France and Spain on the news. But this data and the media headlines are not as contradictory as they first appear. The wildfire data we present on Our World in Data comes from the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS). This uses satellite imagery, which doesn’t distinguish, for example, between forest fires and large-scale burning of agricultural land...
Brine that feeds the gruesome-looking Blood Falls in East Antarctica may have been emplaced when sea levels were higher than they are now, a new study says.
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 26, 2026 thru Sat, August 1, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (7 articles) State of the climate: Rapidly developing El Niño raises chance of record-warm 2026 Chances of a record setting 2026 El Niño rapidly increase, taking us closer to an important warming threshold. Carbon Brief, Zeke Hausfather, Jul 24, 2026. Why is Germany building roads for yesterday's climate? As the Autobahn buckles under heat waves, Germany is still paving roads for a past climate. Engineers know how to fix that — so what's the holdup? DW, Tim Schauenberg, Jul 28, 2026. Summer of Heat, Fires and Storms Is...
Donate by midnight to double your contribution. The post Last chance: Help me cover hurricanes appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The European Space Agency's two-satellite HydroGNSS Scout mission has completed commissioning and is now in full scientific operations.Following extensive testing and validation of the satellites, instruments and ground segment, HydroGNSS data are now freely available to users worldwide, opening new opportunities to advance our understanding of water availability and the impacts of climate change on Earth's water cycle.
Permafrost in the Arctic stores large quantities of organic carbon. When the frozen ground thaws or coastal sections erode, this carbon can enter the sea, where microorganisms can break it down and convert it into climate-damaging greenhouse gases. The extent to which this carbon actually enters the atmosphere, however, and how much remains in the ocean has hardly been quantified to date. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and MARUM – Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen have now been able to answer this question for the first time for the permafrost coast of Qikiqtaruk (Herschel Island) in Canada. With the help of sediment cores, they discovered that considerable amounts of terrestrial carbon are stored in the seabed. It also became apparent that...
Two newly discovered bird carvings reveal early humans' keen eye for artistry in the ice age world 40,000 years ago.
Dolphin is the fifth Category 5 of 2026, putting 2026 ahead of the pace from the all-time record of 1997, when 12 Cat 5s occurred globally. The post Historic Super Typhoon Dolphin hits Category 5 strength in the Northwest Pacific appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Protection and restoration of marine environments are essential for food security and climate change mitigation. Yet historical and archaeological research have shown that conservation and management often rely on arbitrary ecological baselines in ...
Too hot? Head to the Concordia research station in Antarctica, where "astronauts of ice" just experienced near-record-breaking cold.
It’s one of the reasons global sea levels are rising. The post Climate change causes the ocean’s waters to expand appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Do solar plants require backup from fossil fuels? Solar plants require backup, but it doesn’t have to be from fossil fuels. A combination of renewables, energy storage, and long-distance transmission can reliably power the majority of the U.S. without relying on coal, oil, or natural gas, as one 2017 research paper describes. Renewables like wind can generate under cloudy conditions, while surplus solar from brighter weather can be stored in utility-scale batteries for rainy days. Additionally, transmission from neighboring regions can assist solar capacity drops. The Department of Energy...
Image: These images by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, captured on 26 July, show the area to the west of Bordeaux, France, where wildfires continue to burn countryside, fanned by wind and heatwave conditions.
With gas prices soaring, my electric car was the cheapest mode of transportation for a trip to Wisconsin. The post I saved more than $200 on my EV road trip appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 19, 2026 thru Sat, July 25, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (11 articles) Insane': Republicans Push To Punish Canada For Wildfires “We will not tolerate this incompetence,” vowed Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, who may not understand how climate change works. Huffington Post, Jennifer Bendery, Jul 17, 2026. UN to list more sites as 'in danger' from conflict or climate change Phys.org, Simon Valmary and Celia Lebur, Jul 18, 2026. As mosquito ranges expand, better monitoring is key to preventing disease Monitoring is expensive and labor intensive. But it helps public health officials stop outbreaks...
We want to make this our most successful season of hurricane reporting to date, and that’s why we’re asking for your help today. The post Help us cover hurricanes; become a sustaining donor appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02708-8Global temperature change over long times after cessation of greenhouse gas emissions is not well constrained. Now, research shows a consistent global cooling, especially if negative CO2 emissions compensate for continued CH4 and N2O emissions.
Invasive alien species (IAS) are a major threat to biodiversity, yet their impact distribution remains poorly understood. Global biodiversity assessments suggest the highest impacts in wealthy countries of the Global North, but this is only inferred from ...
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink Over the past week smoke from Canadian wildfires has once again poured into cities across Canada and the northern US. Toronto briefly had the worst air quality of any major city on Earth , Thunder Bay’s readings went off the top of Canada’s air quality health index scale, and unhealthy air alerts stretched from Minneapolis to New York City . This smoke-pocalypse has renewed a long-standing debate online that these fires aren’t really about climate change at all, but about forest mismanagement. Decades of aggressive fire suppression, the argument goes, have let fuel pile up. We don’t log enough, thin enough, or do enough prescribed burning The forests are overgrown tinderboxes and we have...
More analysis is needed to ensure that tropical forest degeneration and regeneration are consistently reported in carbon cycle models and in national reporting, according to a study funded in part by ESA's Climate Change Initiative Biomass project.The study analysed how tropical forests store carbon under varying conditions and then release it back into the atmosphere. The scenarios studied range from complete forest destruction through deforestation, which is relatively well understood, to forest degradation, whereby the forest’s condition worsens over time due to damage and organic decomposition, for example through wildfires or selective logging, which is often inconsistently reported in models or omitted altogether.
Solar panels and batteries allow two Salt Lake City businesses to serve as a community hub during outages. The post The coffee shop and barber shop that stay open when the power goes out appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 131, Issue 7, July 2026.
Strange jellyfish, glowing squid, and tiny plankton help move carbon out of the atmosphere and into the deep ocean. The post The hidden ocean world that helps regulate our climate appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 14, 28 July 2026.
New joint research from the Met Office and the University of Reading has revealed that a prolonged marine heatwave in the North Sea played a significant role in intensifying the impacts of Storm Babet (18 to 21 October 2023).
The tropical system is forecast to spread heavy rain and storm surge threats as its wind field expands. The post Tropical Depression 2 crawls in the Gulf, trying to organize appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Low cloud cover has been expanding since 1979, reflecting more sunlight into space, but scientists expect that trend to reverse and accelerate global warming
The hills and basins of Seattle, Washington, have been sculpted by glaciers and modified by humans.
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 12, 2026 thru Sat, July 18, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (7 articles) New research : Doomsday Glacier ice shelf could 'give way any day now' "Just have a Think" on Youtubue, Dave Borlace, July 5, 2026. Grey whales are dying along our shores. Researchers say a warming climate may be part of the problem Although a number of factors may be contributing to the die-off, scientists say it’s likely at least partly due to climate change. Melting Arctic ice and warmer waters may be reducing the number of small sea creatures the whales rely on for food, and altering the selection of what does remain. CBC''...
Most of the fires grew out of control under extreme heat conditions made up to five times more likely by climate change. The post Dangerous and historic wildfire smoke pollution event engulfs the U.S. and Canada appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Heaven Lake is a body of water located 7,200 feet above sea level at the top of a volcano. It is the deepest lake in China as well as the highest and largest crater lake in Northeast Asia.
The Eastern Pacific is roaring ahead. Now the Atlantic is waking up—and the season's peak could pack a bigger punch closer to land. The post The Eastern Pacific is a tropical storm factory, and the Atlantic Basin shows signs of life appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Challenges to the voluntary zero-deforestation pact could impose costs for forests and the soy sector
The impact of high humidity on top of high temperatures is often underappreciated, but most of us aren't prepared for such extreme conditions, which will become more common with global warming
Discover the top stories from Aug. 8 to Aug. 14, 2026, including why mosquitoes may or may not bite you and an update on the deadly flesh-eating bacterium outbreak.
Homes designed to hold warmth are becoming dangerous during heat waves. The post Seattle wasn’t built for this much heat appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The constellation Orion is framed by two Perseid meteors in this photo from Aug. 12, 2018, in Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah. The Perseids – one of the year’s brightest and most popular meteor showers – has been ramping up since early July and will sparkle in the skies through the end of August. The […]
People often aren't acclimated or equipped for extreme temperatures. The post Why heat waves can hit residents of cooler states especially hard appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Learn more about a newly identified Ice Age toad species whose fossils sat unnoticed in a La Brea Tar Pits collection for decades.
In the Arctic, the weather plays a key role in determining how much ice covers the ocean. One weather phenomenon that has a significant influence on this is Arctic cyclones: they cause unusually warm and stormy conditions, which typically lead to a significant loss of ice. These conditions last for a particularly long time when several cyclones rapidly follow one another. An international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now, for the first time, systematically investigated the effects of these accumulating cyclones, using weather data from recent decades. In the journal Nature Communications, they have described this ‘cyclone clustering’ and its specific consequences for the future of sea ice and, by extension, the Arctic coastline.
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Are there enough minerals for solar power expansion to help mitigate climate change? Global mineral supplies are large enough to support solar development for climate change mitigation. A 2023 analysis of 75 emissions-reduction scenarios found that projected median mineral demand largely remains within known geological resources. Projected median demand for silver was about 68,000 metric tons, compared to 530,000 tons of estimated reserves; cadmium demand was 38,000 tons against 500,000 tons of reserves. Tellurium may constrain cadmium-telluride panels, a minority of the global solar market...
Earth observation satellites help us monitor phenomena such as wildfires, drought and heatwaves from space. This page is updated on a regular basis with a selection of ESA’s most recent news-related images showing how the effects of climate change are impacting our world.
Much of southern and central England will experience a heatwave this week, with temperatures likely to peak around 36°C on Thursday for some.
A Canadian oil and gas company wants to continue operating its Michigan pipeline for 99 more years. Tribes and climate groups are pushing back. The post ‘The Earth itself was screaming out:’ Bay Mills Indian Community fights pipeline permitting while enveloped in wildfire smoke appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, August 2, 2026 thru Sat, August 8, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (11 articles) El Niño and climate change are affecting rice crops in weird ways Researchers explain how El Niño and global warming are combining to create "the haves and the have-nots." Grist, Tik Root & Frida Garza, July 31, 2026. Heatwaves and raging fires mark Europe’s ‘dystopian’ summer This article about the recent record-breaking heat and wildfires in Europe dives into the science about the causes, quoting several experts. ABC News, Romy Stephens, Alex Lim and Fran Rimrod, Aug 1, 2026. Climate...
A dangerous collision of storm surge, torrential rain, and sea level rise threatens to overwhelm communities from Texas to Maine. The post The floods of the future won’t come one at a time appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
New animations from NASA’s PREFIRE mission reveal two years of seasonal temperature swings at the Arctic and Antarctic.
Global policy around climate and nature goals has evolved considerably over the last decade. Today, countries recognize that climate and biodiversity crises are profoundly interconnected, and that one cannot be solved without addressing the other. Elevating biodiversity and ecosystem collapse to the same geopolitical urgency as climate change is largely due to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). As the platform enters its second decade, and with the Convention on Biological Diversity Subsidiary Body on Implementation meeting in Nairobi this month to assess progress toward implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF), focus will be on how countries integrate IPBES assessment findings into their national...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Karin Kirk It’s hot. Fans and air conditioners are humming in homes, offices, commercial buildings, and factories. July is the most electricity-intensive time of year in the U.S., and the grid is working hard to keep up. In many places, high electricity demand equals high pollution. That used to be true in New Mexico, but the state’s electricity supply flipped from majority climate-warming fossil fuels to majority renewables in just five years. Spurred by an ambitious clean energy law called the Energy Transition Act, utilities have been busy building solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and transmission lines. A major coal plant was retired and demolished. Solar panels proliferated on homes, schools, and businesses...
Extreme heat, smoke, floods, and storms are disrupting education across the country. The post 9 million U.S. students lost school time for weather in the 2024-2025 school year appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The coastal dune field in Brazil looks like a desert but fills with freshwater lagoons every year.
Using continuous imagery from NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, scientists predicted the near-Earth arrival of a solar eruption to within 30 minutes in an initial proof of concept test. The results, presented Tuesday at the Committee on Space Research Scientific Meeting and under review at the journal Space Weather, could […]
Live Science spoke with climate change researcher Jong-Seong Kug about how a super El Niño could cause lasting damage to our world.
Climate change, combined with development in high-risk areas, is making urban wildfires more likely. The post Urban firestorm devastates Spokane as dense smoke envelops the Northwest appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink Jim Hansen and I have spent much of this year making seemingly opposite predictions about where 2026 will end up in the global temperature record books. He has argued since the spring that 2026 will be the warmest year on record; I have made the case that it is more likely than not to end up in second place. And in a recent post he framed our disagreement in memorably equine terms: Based on this scientific evidence, we expect that when the horse race comes down the stretch, in November and December of this year, we will be riding a thoroughbred, a strong young horse, and Zeke will be atop a fading old nag. For the record, I am the fading old nag in this metaphor. I have been called worse. But here is the fun part: when...
In this excerpt from "Despite it All," author Fred Pearce explores the ways plants are adapting and evolving in the face of climate change — and how we need to recognize this reality and foster its potential boost to biodiversity, rather than holding steadfast to our notions of what types of nature should and shouldn't be allowed to thrive.
A prolonged heatwave, exceptionally low rainfall and widespread drought conditions have combined to make July 2026 a remarkable month.
The EU project SYNCHRONY will launch on August 1st, 2026. It aims to contribute to a better understanding of the rapid changes taking place in the complex system comprising the ocean, ice and atmosphere in the Southern Ocean and around the Antarctic ice shelves, as well as their impacts on the global climate and biodiversity. Led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, researchers from a total of 27 global partner institutions from around the world will work in interdisciplinary work packages to optimise and expand the existing observing system, harmonise data streams, and create new data products that document the state of the climate system and biodiversity. The project thus also provides an important foundation for the international UN Ocean Decade initiative Antarctica InSync and builds on existing...
Raging wildfires disrupted summer in Spain and France amid sweltering heat waves and prolonged drought.
Open access notables Observed Multi-Decadal Acceleration of Globally Averaged Abyssal Ocean Warming , Johnson, Geophysical Research Letters Given sparse historical data in the deep and abyssal ocean, previously only multi-decadal temperature trends have been estimated from observations there on a global scale. Full-depth CTD sampling started circa 1970, with the first decadal global ship-based survey occupied in the 1990s, and the first regional pilot array of Deep Argo floats started circa 2016. Here we fit second-order polynomial functions versus time to all available full-depth CTD profile temperature data in local spatial bins to estimate changes in the rates of these multi-decadal temperature trends. We find a statistically significant increase of the heating rate of...
This July 23, 2026, illustration depicts charged particles from a solar storm stripping away charged particles of Mars’ atmosphere, one of the processes of Martian atmosphere loss studied by NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission. NASA MAVEN mission scientists have found that certain types of auroras on Mars form in a similar way […]
The installations help keep electricity flowing at this Wisconsin reservation even when a major storm knocks out grid power. The post Menominee Nation elders are getting solar and battery systems appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
As it feasts on near-record oceanic warmth, Genevieve will stay safely out to sea. The post Genevieve becomes the first Category 5 hurricane of 2026 appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
High pressure will bring dry, fine and increasingly warm weather for many this week.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink A graph has been making the rounds on social media showing the average number of days per weather station above 95F, 100F, and 105F across the contiguous US since 1895. It comes from CFACT analyst Chris Martz, drawing on raw data from NOAA’s Global Historical Climatology Network daily dataset (GHCNd), and it shows the 1930s towering over everything since. The implication is that extreme heat in the US is nothing new, and that all the recent fuss about record temperatures is overblown. It is a compelling figure. The 1930s Dust Bowl really was an extraordinary period of extreme heat in the US, and no amount of correction for changes in measurement techniques over time makes it go away. But the graph is also a case study in why...
Utah’s new solar power and battery storage facility is among the largest in the region.
Open access notables Record-low 2025 and 2026 ice extents restore Arctic winter sea-ice decline , Chan et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Recent analyses have suggested that the decadal rate of Arctic winter sea-ice extent decline weakened in the early 2020s, with 20-y trends becoming statistically insignificant. Here we show from more up-to-date observations that the exceptionally low 2025 and 2026 ice extent winters reversed this picture, with sea-ice extent during the growth and peak phases returning to record lows and 20-y decline trends becoming significant again. Further analysis of CMIP6 model analogues shows that the observed 2025 decline was unusual but physically plausible under comparable Arctic warming, and is more consistent with...
The wind shear-battered storm has kept the highest rainfall away from land, but also triggered dangerous heat across the South. The post Tropical Storm Bertha makes its first landfall in southeastern Louisiana appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Learn more about the Arctic bobtail squid and why this new sighting is so important to understanding its ecology.
NASA’s Juno mission has provided the first measurements of the temperature below the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, revealing significant heating within the shallow subsurface of the most volcanically active world in the solar system. Collected during two close flybys, the data also shows that most of Io’s surface is remarkably smooth and composed of […]
Description Data from the Earth-orbiting U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite’s L-band radar was used to produce an image of Nunatak Zaterjavshijsja — a mountaintop in East Antarctica — poking out amid a stream of ice flowing northeast to the ocean. The obstruction causes stresses in the ice, heavily fracturing the surrounding surfaces with […]
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters As climate change bakes forests across North America, dense smoke from dozens of out-of-control wildfires burning in northern Minnesota and adjacent portions of Ontario is blanketing tens of millions of people with hazardous pollution. The fires are bringing the worst air quality on record to much of the Great Lakes, mid-Atlantic, and Northeast United States. Pollution from small particles called PM2.5 — the fine particles less than 2.5 microns in diameter are the primary air pollution killers — has been far into the “Hazardous” range across five states since Wednesday morning. The award for worst air in the nation on July 16 went to the city that has in the past billed itself as a climate...
Learn more about glacial periods in Yellowstone National Park and how they may be connected with hydrothermal activity.
Your contribution today will be doubled. The post You can save lives this hurricane season appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink I’m generally pretty measured in how I discuss climate data. There has been only one time in recent years when I was truly shocked: when global temperatures came in for September 2023 at a full 0.5C warmer than any prior September on record. 1 Once until today, that is. With the July runs now in from 667 ensemble members across 14 different seasonal forecast models, it looks like this year’s El Niño is not only very likely to be the strongest event since reliable records began – it may end up the strongest by a truly mind-blowing margin. The multi-model median for the event’s peak (measured as detrended sea surface temperature anomalies in the Niño 3.4 region of the tropical Pacific) currently...
A tropical storm watch was issued for the western Florida Panhandle on Sunday, July 19, after large but disorganized circulation over the northeast Gulf of Mexico was designated Tropical Depression 2 by the NOAA/NWS National Hurricane Center on Sunday morning. Although it may struggle to approach hurricane strength, TD 2 could develop a core of […] The post TD 2 predicted to strengthen near upper Gulf Coast appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Learn how astronomers confirmed an atmosphere on rocky exoplanet LHS 1140 b, located 48 light-years away in its star’s habitable zone.
National Academies report says the fast-growing field can boost confidence with more rigorous results
Open access notables Renewable energy discourses of fossil fuel companies: obstruction and delay of climate action , Desai et al., Energy Sustainability and Society For decades, multinational fossil fuel companies have strategically promoted discourses to obstruct climate action. Initially, the fossil fuel industry publicized communications that denied the role of fossil fuels in climate destabilization. Recently, however, they have advanced nuanced messages to delay climate action and policy. As the climate crisis worsens and calls to phase out fossil fuels intensify, research into the industry has revealed pervasive “greenwashing” and a discrepancy between external messaging on renewable energy and internal operational positions. Corporate annual reports...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bridgett Ennis s the prices of home battery systems fall, they’re becoming a key part of the modern electric grid. They can help homeowners store power from rooftop solar panels or the grid for use during outages or periods of high demand. And they can reduce strain on the grid during heat waves when electricity demand soars. In this interview with Yale Climate Connections, Raghu Belur, the chief products officer for Enphase Energy , explains how home battery systems can lower utility bills and create backup power during grid failures. He also says that batteries, including the batteries in electric vehicles, may one day make it possible for utilities to use power from many small sources to maintain a more reliable grid. ...