A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur. And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops). Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...

The misery for folks in the upper midwest is almost over. My misery over CONUS decreases by 10% in the next few hours #WIwx #MIwx #IAwx #ILwx #MOwx #ARwx

The Iran War has once again led to a bout of what @isabelschnabel.bsky.social memorably dubbed 'fossilflation'. It's en vouge to talk about the solution as some massively complex undertaking. It really isn't. Get off fossil fuels faster. My latest just out @nature.com rdcu.be/fdxig

I’m visiting Claremont McKenna College. What a beautiful place. Here’s their fantastic new Robert Day Sciences Center. If I’d gone here, I would definitely have majored in hacky sack.

Article in SF Chronicle about Khan Academy’s attempt to create a $10,000 degree in AI with the help of blue-chip companies. I don’t know how well it will work but I do know this: Google et al. will never hire a graduate. They’ll be hiring as usual at Stanford. sfstandard.com/2026/04/14/s...

On The Climate Brink: We’re scientists. We know the climate’s changing. And we know why. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/were-scien...

If you use the R package DLNM to estimate excess risk attributable to environmental conditions (e.g., heat/cold), I've rewritten the package in python: github.com/aedessler/py...

A measure of excess deaths from climate change: "For Texas, this comes out to roughly 900 additional deaths per year due to climate change that occurred since the 1950s, equal to 1.7% of summertime deaths." by @andrewdessler.com www.realclearscience.com/2026/04/14/h...

Main Topic: How Many People Does Heat Actually Kill? via @andrewdessler.com On The Extreme Temperature Diary TUE 4/14/2026 At: guyonclimate.com + #climate #weather +rec temp reports @michaelemann.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @drpauldorfman.bsky.social @climatecentral.org @zacklabe.com

On The Climate Brink, I write about different ways of counting heat-related mortality. I think this is important info for everyone who wants to talk about climate impacts. open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

On The Climate Brink, I write about different ways of counting heat-related mortality. I think this is important info for everyone who wants to talk about climate impacts. open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

on FlightRadar, you can see the Artemis recovery operation

Time for the annual hurricane forecasts to come out. Reminder for reporters: April hurricane forecasts have very little skill There’s no benefit to society to write a story about this. Regardless of the forecast, people should plan for what they will do if a storm threatens. HAVE A PLAN.

Great summary of the cognitive dissonance of seeing the U.S. celebrate the Artemis mission while the current administration cuts science, by @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social in @eenews.bsky.social www.eenews.net/articles/art...

Thought it might be interesting to show you the evolution of this El Niño from now through December using the NMME. Notice the warming of the East-Central Tropical Pacific. The onset is fast!

This is a great example of order-of-magnitude thinking. Any physicist will love this.

We installed solar panels on our house a few years ago when my kids were in high school. The panels were sized to cover our electricity usage at the time. Now that they've moved out, we're using 2/3rds of the electricity we previously did.

Very useful for someone like me - excited, but bewildered, by the explosion of novel approaches in the climate modeling space.

I can't believe we have reached this point, but this bears crystal clear emphasis: Our global climate system ensures that even "limited" use of lower-yield "tactical" nuclear weapons against civilian or industrial targets would have major regional-to-global scale consequences.

has anyone submitted a paper to an AMS journal lately? did it get sent to the journal editor quickly? last time I submitted a paper (early 2024), the paper spent months waiting for AMS staff to do a 15-min. check before sending it to the editor. I was absolutely outraged.

when he's right, he's right

What we are facing in 2026 is a fossil fuels crisis. Not an energy crisis. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

First, Outlook fails. Now: Houston, Bluetooth won't pair. Artemis II is NASA's most relatable mission yet.

Why is it so hard to understand a. the difference between primary and secondary energy, and b. why it amounts to journalistic malpractice to compare current renewables capacity with the primary energy provided (and to a large part wasted in the form unused heat) by fossil fuels?

I’m just going to say it: I’ve never seen grad students (esp. foreign ones) write so well. In the old days, I would have to spend half my time reading a manuscript fixing grammatical errors. Now the papers are grammatically error-free, thanks to LLMs

If you’re in Albuquerque today, I’ll be giving a public lecture on climate impacts and the public debate at UNM at 2 pm. eps.unm.edu/news-events/...

I’m just going to say it: I’ve never seen grad students (esp. foreign ones) write so well. In the old days, I would have to spend half my time reading a manuscript fixing grammatical errors. Now the papers are grammatically error-free, thanks to LLMs

This is a very cool figure, particularly the top row. In the long run, the climate problem is mostly about carbon dioxide.

For the latest issue of the @thebulletin.org magazine, I wrote about how The Free Press covers climate change. Out from behind the paywall now until next Wednesday

Really interesting figure, but in no way fun or nice news... (or perspective)...

Footage captured from passengers on an airliner above Florida, showing the exact moment the Artemis II mission lifts off.

April 1st video from the @tamuatmo.bsky.social social media team, featuring @eniels13.bsky.social. www.instagram.com/reel/DWm1bRk... @tamuartsci.bsky.social

LOL. All that and then he hits a single. Should have just HBP'ed him on #1.

Really interesting figure putting present and future climate change in context with paleoclimate data Read the details on his substack here: open.substack.com/pub/justdean...

Essential reading as we sail deeper into climate chaos. While getting your head around hazards, exposure and vulnerability do not take your eye of the concept of non-linearity because as Andrew highlights here: “Things are fine until they’re not.”

Holy cr*p! Roman Anthony just struck out 3 times on 9 pitches. No fancy pitches, just throwing it down the middle. Anthony is lost at the plate. This is the equivalent of an immaculate inning for a pitcher (9 pitches, 3 strikeouts). #Astros www.mlb.com/news/immacul...

@andrewdessler.com just read www.theclimatebrink.com/p/you-have-1... - it's awesome - it really explains what's involved in replacing fossil fuels in terms of the enormous amount embedded energy needed to maintain our standard of living that is in everything we use.

On The Climate Brink, I am posting draft chapters from my climate risk textbook. This post is the chapter that explains what "climate risk" means.

Informative post on The Climate Brink by Zeke Zeke Hausfather on the differences between CO2 and CH4 in warming the climate and the scourge of GWPs and CO2e in evaluating climate policy.

if you think this temperature is "unseasonable," I have some very bad news for you about the future

This is not Schrödinger's cat. In that thought experiment, the cat is in both states — it is both alive and dead — until it is observed. That's what makes quantum mechanics so weird. For oil, we simply don't know the future. It is not the case that oil price is both high and low until observed.

During their lifetime, today's college students will experience about 2°C of global-average warming. The warming between the last ice age and the present (pre-industrial) climate was 5-6°C. Thus, 2°C is about 35% of the warming since the last ice age, which radically changed the Earth's surface.

"the moral case for fossil fuels"

The next CLIVAR climate risk seminar is April 28 at 4 pm ET. We have two fantastic presentations on the schedule. Join the mailing list to get the info to join. mailchi.mp/usclivar.org...

Brent Crude now at USD $116/barrel. Anyone know the current price of sunlight, wind or water? 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 oilprice.com

hey if "the economy" is completely decoupled from the welfare of the people, WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT OF THE ECONOMY

We can easily build a reliable, low-cost, near-zero-emission power system with the technologies we have today. We don’t need to invent anything new. 🔌💡

Informative post on The Climate Brink by Zeke Zeke Hausfather on the differences between CO2 and CH4 in warming the climate and the scourge of GWPs and CO2e in evaluating climate policy.

The Iran War is Revealing the Messy Middle of Our Renewable Energy Transition www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/m... Very strong article by @dwallacewells.bsky.social on the transition problem: it's easy to see a future world that's better than the one we have but getting there can be messy and v. hard.