Extreme Attribution Gets a National Academies Upgrade: But the Weakest Link Problem Remains

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a new report, Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Their Impacts, accompanied by a press release announcing that…

Vacuuming the World’s Wallets

,,,a precise operation performed on a subjective input does not produce an objective output. It produces subjectivity in a lab coat. Charles Rotter Here’s another episode of my endless, some…

The Climate Driven Migration Map Hidden in Ancient DNA

Charles Rotter Every so often I find a climate paper that is a pleasure to read because it is not trying to sell me anything. No policy prescription, no call…

The Other “They Knew” Climate Story: #ExxonKnew vs. #TheyKnew

While everyone was chanting #ExxonKnew, another “they knew” story was unfolding in plain sight. For more than a decade, we’ve been inundated with a carefully crafted public relations campaign built…

“Super” El Niño is a No-Go: In More Ways than One

MLive Corrects the “Super El Niño” Narrative—NOAA Doesn’t Actually Use That Term, plus it looks to be fizzling One of the more refreshing weather articles to appear recently comes not…