The Climate Brink
Andrew Dessler, Zeke HausfatherThe Choice is Ours: Climate Disaster or a Sustainable Future
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Higher warming predictions for 2026 and 2027
Back in December I provided some initial projections of where both 2026 and 2027 global mean surface temperatures might end up.
A lot has happened since then. We’ve gotten the first three months of data in for 20261 (and have a good sense...
Transition risk: The human cost of net zero
I am finalizing a textbook on climate risk and am posting chapters as I finish them. I’d previously posted chapters about embedded energy and physical climate risk; this post is a chapter on transition risk, the economic and social risks of...
We're scientists. We know the climate's changing. And we know why.
It was reported in the New York Times (gift link) that U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently claimed that scientists don't know why the climate is warming, calling the reasons "difficult to deconstruct" and dismissing climate chang...
How many people does heat actually kill?
You have likely seen a headline like this: 62,000 people died from record-breaking heat in Europe:
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It’s a striking number. It’s also not clear what it means. Is this the number of people killed by extreme heat? Or climate change’s co...
Climate risk explained
I am finalizing a textbook on climate risk and am posting chapters as I finish them. I’d previously posted a chapter about embedded energy; this post is an introductory chapter on climate risk.
Chapter 2: Climate risk
We saw in Chapter...
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Professor of Atmospheric Sciences & climate scientist at Texas A&M; author of textbook "Introduction to Modern Climate Change"; native Texan
"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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