Titusville, Florida is the county seat of Brevard County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 48,789.It’s located between Orlando and the Kennedy Space Center. Mayor Andrew Connors took to YouTube to explain it was time to do something a … | Continue reading
In discussing increased extreme rain events, Daniel Swain dropped some knowledge on me that was new. It’s generally known that for each degree centigrade of warming, globally, atmospheric water vapor increases by about 7 percent – which is already a lot – equivalent to having ano … | Continue reading
Everywhere I have been over the last week, conversations have centered on the choking air quality in the midwest.The sense of fear, dread, and anger is palpable.Will that be true generally, and will it make a difference in how people look at political choices, or will we still ma … | Continue reading
Zeke Hausfather PhD: 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 … | Continue reading
Manosphere influencer, sex trafficking dirtbag and (of course) climate denier Andrew Tate has been arrested, again, this weekend, and the clips have gone gloriously viral. This week also, Defense Secretary (self styled as “Department of War”) Pete Hegseth called for members of th … | Continue reading
The AQI index is under 100, and I was able to get out and putter around the yard this morning, until I started coughing, then time to come in. Nevertheless, mental health requires that we think about possible positive futures, and the video above does a nice job of that, with som … | Continue reading
Jeff Masters is co-founder of Weather Underground, a former Hurricane Hunter, and was my colleague for years at Yale Climate Connections, where he writes on Weather and Climate issues. Jeff Masters at Yale Climate Connections: The award for worst air in the nation yesterday went … | Continue reading
Massive lightning event in Oregon sparks uncontrolled fires. I blame Canada. Be on the lookout for this suspect. President Trump is coming and he’s not blowing smoke! | Continue reading
Great CNBC report above profiles Elon Musk’s “Colossus” Data Center just outside Memphis in South Haven, Mississippi. Takeaway: Primary objections to this facility stem from the install of a large number of gas turbines, essentially big jet engines, to power the facility, without … | Continue reading
“Historically Bad”. Local reports from Minneapolis, above, Detroit below. Make sure to thank a Republican! My local AQI has been pegged at 500 for 12 hours – I don’t think it can go any higher. | Continue reading
Above, Abdul El-Sayed will compete in the Michigan Democratic primary against Rep. Haley Stevens to be the US Senate nominee to replace the retiring Gary Peters. Below, John James is the Trump endorsed candidate in the Republican primary for Michigan Governor.Voting is on August … | Continue reading
Yet another interview in my series on the “New Climate Denial” that we have seen resurrected in the Trump administration, in fact, Andrew Dessler was the first scientist I spoke to several months ago on this.Above, we set the table a bit, and Dr Dessler did say that, at least, in … | Continue reading
Bookmark this for the next person that tells you “forest management” is the cause of increasing wildfires. There are no forests in Greenland. Guardian: Scientists have expressed concern after two wildfires broke out within a week of each other on the Arctic island of Greenland ea … | Continue reading
Climate deniers are partying like it’s 2009, and it looks like we have to walk thru all this BS yet one more time. As part of my newest series of interviews with scientists on our current wave of “New Climate Denial”, I spoke with Zeke Hausfather last week. Some of Zeke’s remarks … | Continue reading
I interviewed Harvard research Loretta Mickley on the health effects of wildfire smoke a few years ago.Wildfire “smoke waves” not just in the West anymore. Take this seriously – it can put you in the hospital. | Continue reading
As fires explode once again in Canada’s boreal forests, and unprecedented smoke clouds descend over the Eastern US, atmospheric expert Daniel Swain explains a newly popular climate denial meme, above.Liars can use statistic. Who knew? Below, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, in his … | Continue reading
Above, Mackinac Bridge Webcam from the north side, looking south over the Straits of Mackinac and the bridge. If you are not familiar with the Upper Great Lakes, this might not have the emotional freight that it carries for those of us who have grown up around the world’s largest … | Continue reading
Fast moving energy landscape is demanding power for Data Centers, and for now, pushing up greenhouse emissions as developers have been choosing gas as the speediest path to powering up.But some savvy operators, as well as policy makers, looking out a decade or two, wonder about t … | Continue reading
Was wondering when we would see this. Canadian Fires will bring smoke across the East.See my earlier post on this page with Daniel Swain’s insights on global wild fires.Welcome to the Rest of Our Lives. Fox Weather: A recent wildfire outbreak across western Ontario, Canada, and M … | Continue reading
I’ve been doing a series of interviews with senior scientists about what I call the “New Climate Denial”.Among them, Daniel Swain – you’ll hear me chuckling above when he talks about the ongoing “torture” of data sets. Dr. Swain gives a prime example of how data sets are being to … | Continue reading
WMAQ NBC Chicago: Planted alongside 7,000 solar modules over several acres in Kane County, are pesticide-free, native flowering plants providing vegetation for bees, butterflies and other pollinators to thrive. “We often see birds nesting around the panels. We find a lot of bees’ … | Continue reading
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BBC: A new study has found well-managed solar farms can make an important contribution to nature as well as “provide relief from the effects of agricultural intensification”. The report, from the RSPB and the University of Cambridge, was published on Wednesday in the journal Bird … | Continue reading
Above, good local news reporting on Chicago area’s storm and sewage management system, which includes a massive series of tunnels and reservoirs in the area. Something I did not know. It’s important because climate enhanced extreme rains are becoming more common across the world, … | Continue reading
Colin McCarthy on X: The 2026-27 El Niño is simply astonishing. Tropical Pacific waters are running nearly 7 weeks ahead of where they’ve ever been at this point in an El Niño cycle in modern history. Models now put the peak strength at 3.6°C on the Relative Oceanic Niño Index (R … | Continue reading
Missed this when it came out a few weeks ago, someone alerted me to it. | Continue reading
Former Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a former Cardiac Surgeon, after retiring, applied his science chops (finally) to his understanding of climate, and realized he’d made some mistakes.He is now Director of the Nature Conservancy, and turning that organization tow … | Continue reading
I’ve been talking to some Senior Scientists in recent months, working on a new series of videos that will be aimed at this current wave of “New” Climate Denial, which is the same as the old climate denial, but aimed, perhaps at a generation that hasn’t been well informed, or perh … | Continue reading
A lot of people are noticing. Less weather data, compliments of DOGE cuts, means more holes in model output, and more nasty surprises. Politico: At issue, meteorologists say, are spending reductions imposed under President Donald Trump by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Effi … | Continue reading
WTOL Toledo: TOLEDO, Ohio — A rare and unusual slow moving “meso low” pressure system remained nearly stationary for over 24 hours across northern Ohio with torrents of rain that fed off of the warmer waters of Lake Erie in what seemed to be endless waves of downpours. The torren … | Continue reading
Reuters: Schools are out for the summer, but the batteries in more than 200 electric school buses are helping some people in the U.S. find relief when temperatures soar. From California to North Carolina, yellow electric school buses are sending power back to the grid, easing s … | Continue reading
RenewEconomy (Australia): Solar is not just getting cheaper; it is sprinting down a learning curve that has held for half a century, with module prices falling about ten-thousand-fold as cumulative capacity has exploded. That is my first message: a technology whose cost keeps dr … | Continue reading
When anti-clean energy groups get involved in local discussions about solar or wind energy, this is pretty typical of what you see.A great deal of rudeness and entitled behavior from people who tend to isolate themselves in their own social media siloes – typically closed Faceboo … | Continue reading
We’ve been sitting on it the whole time. Description: Amit Narayan is the founder and CEO of GridCARE. His thesis: America doesn’t have a power shortage, it has a visibility problem. The grid runs at only about a third of its capacity, and GridCARE uses AI to scan it the way an M … | Continue reading
It’s incredible the inertia of even the relatively sane, fact based media, to keep ignoring the continuing deficits owing to the Hormuz closure, and act like every thing is back to normal. Not so, according to the expert interviewed by Bloomberg. | Continue reading
Mathew Cappucci is one of our best science explainers, here addressing current heat waves in the US and Europe, and finally, America’s continual difficulty understanding climate change. | Continue reading
How hot was it? Tony Pann, Meteorologist, WBAL Baltimore, on Facebook: PHILADELPHIA WEATHER JULY 4th, 1776: the image (above) is a picture of Thomas Jefferson’s actual weather notes from July of that year! (monticello.org) At 1 PM on July 4th, it was 76 degrees and dry…rather coo … | Continue reading
PBS Newshour, October 29, 2025: Ryan Hledik, Principal, The Brattle Group: I think the important thing to understand about the power sector is, a big portion of the cost that you’re paying in your electricity bill is a fixed cost. It’s the poles and wires and power plants and sub … | Continue reading
Ahem. Prompt: Do gas pipeline constraints impact power for Data Centers? ChatGPT:Yes. In some regions, gas pipeline constraints can become a significant limitation on power availability for data centers, especially during periods of extreme demand. Here’s why: Gas plants often pr … | Continue reading
Ok, it’s “Electrifying”. Financial Times: Battery start-ups are moving into AI data centres where their specialist technology helps to smooth split-second power surges, driving what executives describe as “crazy” demand. The rapid growth of AI data centres is creating a profitabl … | Continue reading
Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration is so eager to see a nuclear power renaissance that it is starting to fund billions of dollars for reactor orders. In a new deal expected to be announced Tuesday, low-interest loans amounting to $17.5 billion from the Energy Departmen … | Continue reading
After a destructive thunderstorm, with wind gusts measured at 131 mph, damages at a wind farm in Highmore, South Dakota, will now have to be cleaned up.Pictures indicate that typical safety setbacks for wind turbines are more than adequate. Stories about blades sailing thru the a … | Continue reading
Who knew? Above, Sarah Kapnick is former chief scientist of NOAA from April 2022 to October 2024, and presently the inaugural Global Head of Climate Advisory at JP Morgan Chase. Bloomberg: Extreme weather events — such as the heat wave gripping Europe — are making a growing numbe … | Continue reading
I fault nuclear proponents in the 60s for letting the cart get before the horse, and pushing nuclear development before a waste management scheme was in place.I fault the anti-nuclear movement for refusing to allow a permanent solution to be deployed in Nevada, where a large pote … | Continue reading
You can force people to act against their principles for a while, but they will remember it. Bloomberg: A European Union climate law designed to tackle a potent greenhouse gas has drawn the ire of the Trump administration, potentially threatening billions of dollars of trade and … | Continue reading
Climate Change: It’s a Beach and then you die. BBC: Europe’s unprecedented early summer heatwave may be responsible for hundreds of excess deaths, according to the head of the World Health Organization (WHO). Temperature records were broken across the continent again on Sunday – … | Continue reading
Above, clean up in Highmore, South Dakota. Is this just the opening shot?Below, YouTube Meteorologist Max Velocity discusses the storm, and the setup for coming days as a giant heat dome settles over the Eastern US. Below, more on “Ring of Fire” configuration. My Radar Weather on … | Continue reading
Insane maybe, but not unexpected. Max Velocity on X: THIS IS INSANE! 130 MPH winds destroyed windmills in South Dakota this morning. This is very rare. We hardly ever see windmills take this much damage from straight-line damaging winds. But when you push over 110 MPH winds, it b … | Continue reading