P water? There’s more of it in the atmosphere with Climate Change. | Continue reading
“The pictures don’t capture it.” She looks shook. | Continue reading
WFLA Tampa report. Mother Nature’s “Beach Nourishment”. | Continue reading
The damages to infrastructure shown here are sobering, breathtaking. Bridges, superhighways, railroads, transmission – everything. | Continue reading
Reuters report above is sobering.The US already has a severe housing crisis, and people in these areas typically have no flood insurance – why would they?Climate change has changed the ground rules. Charlotte, North Carolina local TV news report below.“Heartbreaking”. “Leaves you … | Continue reading
In 2022, WLOS in Asheville produced this TV report on the number of newcomers choosing Asheville because of its purported advantages as a “haven” in a changing climate. | Continue reading
I didn’t hear “Climate” mentioned, did you? Below, great water vapor imagery shows how rainstorms before Helene’s arrival set the stage for saturated ground and massive flooding. | Continue reading
Well, that’s one way to deal with massive increases in storm damage. Falsify inspection reports, lowball the damage payouts, and dare the cheated customers to sue. Helene might be one of the most expensive storms ever, and the inspections would just be getting started. Climate Ch … | Continue reading
Meteorologist Bryan Bennet on Facebook: Hurricane Helene will likely be one of the top 10 most costly (natural or industrial) catastrophes to ever occur worldwide. The most expensive events to occur worldwide (in descending order): Chernobyl, three different earthquakes in Japan … | Continue reading
Washington Post: The hurricane’s massive size and record-breaking storm surge left an equally massive footprint of destruction across the Southeast, from Florida’s Tampa Bay region to Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas. The storm likely caused $15 billion to $26 billion in prop … | Continue reading
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Real Estate guy has unvarnished take on hurricane damage in St Pete neighborhood.Obviously this guy is a salesman, but no BS detected here. Prediction: People will still continue to move to Florida. | Continue reading
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NBC News: Officials warned of an imminent breach of a dam in Greene County, Tenn., on the border with North Carolina, and told residents downstream to move to higher ground immediately. | Continue reading
Above, WFAA Dallas report. University of Miami Meteorologist Brian McNoldy on Facebook: Heads-up: The future disturbance in the western Caribbean is up to a 40% probability of formation within a week. If it forms, it will enter the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday-Friday next week (Oct … | Continue reading
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Major impacts in Florida, or course, but what might make this storm historic will be the impacts in Appalachia, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Next storm queueing up in the Gulf… | Continue reading
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Dallas’ Republican chair confirms my suspicion, once again, that Climate Denial is a result of poor toilet training. At the end, a Republican voter agonizes about his party’s lack of integrity on the issue. | Continue reading
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Meteorologist Mathew Cappucci has an informative “Fireside Chat” walking us what to expect as a hurricane passes. If I understand correctly, he is somewhere in the storm right now. Survival tip: Hide from wind, Run from Water. | Continue reading
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Women’s Health: As climate change is predicted to increase global temperatures, humidity, and rain, researchers studying the public health effects of mold and chemical intolerance say the associated water damage (via flooding and humidity) will potentially make mold illness more … | Continue reading
NBC has this live Tracker map. Below, FEMA makes prep for a ‘multi State” event. Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina. | Continue reading
As the pace accelerates, the homeowners wealthy enough to own these houses will call for Taxpayers to shore them up or insure them, which is happening in some cases. Town of Kure Beach, North Carolina: The last beach nourishment project was in March of 2022. Beach nourishment is … | Continue reading
Once again, given the resources that are going in to deployment of Small Modular Reactors around the world, we can only hope that they succeed – the stakes are high. That said, it might be useful to review the actual operational experience so far with the only SMRs that have yet … | Continue reading
The Carolinas are still drying out from recent “No Name” storm that dropped “1000 year” rain totals along coastal areas.Helene could bring heavy rain to mountainous areas highly vulnerable to flash flooding and landslides. | Continue reading
If this summer has shown us anything, it’s that a storm doesn’t have to be even developed enough to be named, to have major destructive, climate juiced power. Helene, though, is the real deal, and will deliver a blow across a wide area that is still recovering from this summer’s … | Continue reading
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Above animation of one model run would be bad news for Tampa if it played out. Brings massive storm surge right into the Bay at a bad angle. Floridians still drying out from Debby 8 weeks ago looking forward anxiously to Helene | Continue reading
I’ve posted recently on the efforts, through various schemes, to jump start nuclear power. I do wish them luck. That said, nuclear will face keen competition, not only from cheap-and-getting cheaper solar, wind and batteries, but often ignored Geothermal technology, which is righ … | Continue reading
Happy Climate week. Hope you’re planning to vote. Wall Street Journal: Climate optimism is fading. Higher costs, pushback from businesses and consumers, and the slow rollout of technology are delaying the transition from fossil fuels. Renewable energy is growing faster than expec … | Continue reading
One of the most pernicious myths about clean energy, particularly solar, is that “it replaces prime farm land”.In fact, Solar (and wind, of course) saves prime farm land from development, something farmers emphasize to me over and over again. Farmers typically operate on a knife’ … | Continue reading
Coastal Review: “Seashore law enforcement rangers arrived on scene and confirmed that the unoccupied, one-story house—the same house that sustained damages as a result of the first house collapse of the day—had collapsed and apparently washed out into the ocean before the bulk of … | Continue reading
Storm’s exact track will make a big difference. Tampa at some risk. Deep dive below. | Continue reading
Bloomberg report above refers to Nuclear power as “renewable energy”, so that’s an interesting usage.We’re seeing a reboot of one of the 20th century’s most notorious brands. Yahoo Finance: Constellation Energy signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Microsoft on Fri … | Continue reading
Gulf of Mexico is at historically high temperature levels, especially in the region of the so-called “loop current”, which soon-to-be Cyclone Helene will be passing over on its way to landfall. | Continue reading
Jeff Berardelli: All residents of the Panhandle, Big Bend & FL West Coast down to Tampa Bay should use this time being sure they have the hurricane supplies they need just in case. Soon to be #Helene will likely be an extremely intense hurricane with landfall Thursday. | Continue reading
“If you believe something, but you act like you don’t believe it, do you really believe it?” Description: When playwright David Finnigan launched a new play in 2014, controversially titled “Kill Climate Deniers,” he was not prepared for the blowback. But the conversations with cl … | Continue reading
Project 2025 is the “Intellectual case” such as it is, or a roadmap, for a new Trump administration.New NBC polling reveals the document, which has been discussed widely, has the approval of 4 percent of Americans.The document calls for the dismantling of one of the world’s scien … | Continue reading
Above, one model, the GFS, has a very strong CAT 4 system hitting the Florida panhandle later this week. High chance (70 percent) for development in the Gulf, see KHOU Houston report below. | Continue reading
Because of course he is.Not all climate deniers are horrible people, but most horrible people are climate deniers.Donald Trump’s hand picked candidate for North Carolina Governor is even crazier, and sleazier, than you already knew. Daily Beast: An email account used by North Car … | Continue reading
Tornado above on September 19, about 30 miles northwest of Duluth, MN. Minnesota DNR: Minnesota lies along the north edge of the region of maximum tornado occurrence in the United States, often referred to as Tornado Alley . In Minnesota, tornadoes generally occur May through Sep … | Continue reading
Normally a La Niña event would have followed more closely as the super El Niño has been fading over the summer, but it seems to be coming this fall.La Ninas bring their own unique challenges in terms of weather extremes, often coinciding with dry conditions in the American Southw … | Continue reading