The Climate Brink
Andrew Dessler, Glen Peters, Zeke Hausfather, Piers ForsterThe Choice is Ours: Climate Disaster or a Sustainable Future
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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...
Fixing one of climate’s worst plots
A hall of fame for bad climate plots would definitely include this one:
The plot covers the continental U.S., and it dramatically shows that temperatures in the 1930s were more extreme than those of the present period. The metric plotted,...
Why Hansen may end up being right about 2026
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 mad...
Wildfires are remaking the world
I’ve written a lot of op-eds on climate change, but this piece from 2020 feels eerily prescient today. The core idea is simple: a hotter world will look different from the world we live in now. Forests, coastlines, deserts, and other ecosys...
Raw Data, Wrong Answers
Here on The Climate Brink, we’ve written many many posts about whether temperatures were more extreme in the 1930s than today. Just last week, we wrote about one such plot and pointed out one problem with using raw station records that do n...
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Professor of Atmospheric Sciences & climate scientist at Texas A&M; author of textbook "Introduction to Modern Climate Change"; native Texan
Energy, emissions, & climate at the CICERO Center for International Climate Research in Oslo, Norway.
"A tireless chronicler and commentator on all things climate" -NYTimes. Climate research lead @stripe, writer @CarbonBrief, scientist @BerkeleyEarth, IPCC/NCA5 author.
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