According to IREC there are almost 450,000 Americans working in the solar, storage, and renewables industry. According to BLS, 42,000 people work in coal mining. There are 3.8 million public school teachers and 2.7 million cooks, kitchen staff, or food servers.

These choropleth maps of country-level downloads always make me smile. How many people on Ellesmere Island downloaded this article? #Scale #Geography

For example, this is why I repeatedly emphasize the value of ensemble forecasting over cherry-picking scary looking deterministic model maps that show the worst possible outcome. At no point was the multi-model consensus showing more than a moderate probability of a landfall.

The tomatoes are fading but the fall garden (including peas!) is coming on. Oh, and the scarecrow is hanging in there. 🌱

An excellent true thing is that I gave unequivocally anti-“AI” talks at Wesleyan and Tufts this month where the computer scientists and engineers in attendance have no interest in allowing this industry to hijack education and asked me “how can we get our students to take your classes?”

Imagine trying to explain the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, the deadliest antisemitic violence in US history, but being prohibited from discussing anti-immigrant bigotry and xenophobia. “The shooter hated Jews because he thought we were importing… never mind.”

Sure, let's eat and review this Shrek Ass of an apple --

This just confirms for me what me and my academic colleagues have seen with our students: AI helps those who already know what they are doing (e.g., double-checking facts or knowing how and when to implement advanced writing/rhetoric). It does the opposite for amateurs (such as most undergrads).

I'm helping to organize the No Kings Action in Indy on Oct. 18th, 12pm-2pm @ The Statehouse! Mark your calendar & spread the word! Invest In Our Communities Not ICE! Affordable Housing Not Concentration Camps! #NoKings #HoosierSky

We don’t talk enough about how racists and authoritarians are the ones who actually genuinely hate this country.

Building muscle on honeysuckle and violets 🦌

And most university administrators are followers not leaders. They don't want to "miss out" so they continually scan what other campuses are doing and imitate that.

And utilities LOVE spending gobs of money on outrageously expensive transmission and distribution boondoggles, even when it would be far cheaper to tap into their own customers’ solar panels and batteries www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir...

Thousands of laid-off federal workers in DMV struggle to get enough food, report shows wjla.com/news/local/s...

Did you know that people used to send snail-mail postcards to authors to request snail-mail copies of their journal articles?

NOAA's Midwest Regional Climate Center has updated their interface for accessing historical climate data across the US. Very nice!

The Pacific "blob" is back, except this time it stretches across the entire North Pacific Ocean Basin. This is altering weather patterns, led to Japan's hottest summer on record, and could affect your winter weather too. Also hit hard is marine life. www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/c...

Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

Monarchs seem to be doing well in our 10-acre (strip-mowed) meadow this year 🦋 🌱

This is an access trail to the state forest that’s an ongoing collaboration with the white-tailed deer. I went in for the first time in a while and found this downed tree blocking the path (left). It seems the deer have already found the optimal bypass route (right).

This was weird. I felt like I was interrupting something and it turned out that the one in back had its foot stuck inside the other’s shell. Came back in 5 min to make sure it wasn’t upside down and they were both gone! 🐢

Soft early autumn light

Why are electric bills so high? If your monopoly utility spends $10 million on wires and transformers, your state will let them increase prices to recover the $10M plus ~$1M per year, every year for the foreseeable future. You and your neighbors will pay ~$35M for ~$10M of infrastructure.

Indiana University no longer recognizes “the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization” as a core expectation

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

Global investment in renewable energy up 10% on 2024 despite Trump rollback www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I hate it when people compare the amount of heat the ocean has absorbed to the power of atomic bombs dropped on Japan. It’s gruesome and not relatable. As my Japanese PhD student said when he heard the comparison, “It’s not a good memory for us.”

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

I rarely disagree w Zeke who has been (and remains) one of the best voices on climate. The issue with bandages isn’t just complacency, it’s that humanity has shown that the degree of competence & cooperation is not there to solve climate change let alone handle shiny objects (no pun intended) w care

Calls for responsible governance of SRM imagine a reality which is vastly distant from that we're living in. In an age where international institutions are crumbling, this is not the time to propose that they should take on an even more difficult climate management problem. /2

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If you care about... you know, FACTS and LOGIC and REASON... then next time you see the "But Al Gore said the Arctic would be Ice Free!" meme, take a moment to READ THIS post by @climateofgavin.bsky.social for the details: www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

The national network of Climate Adaptation Science Centers met this week in Juneau, AK. Our visit coincided with a glacial outburst flood, atmospheric river and landslide - hazards becoming more frequent and severe as climate warms. CASC science addresses these risks & more, but is under threat.

The goldenrods are starting to do their thing 🌱

Here's a gofundme to help out Josh Bregy, who recently was fired from his tenure-track job at Clemson

The squarish area bounded by these streets in Bloomington, Indiana is a quarter section (1/4 of a square mile) and has a good chunk of the IU athletics complex. Imagine how much better this space would be if the university went for solar canopies w/EV chargers in the vast parking lots.

Also, I have talked to two friends currently with TT jobs, who have an H1-B and their green card applications have been initiated. They both received emails yesterday to the tune of "we hope it won't apply to your case, but if it does we won't renew your contract."

Here's a gofundme to help out Josh Bregy, who recently was fired from his tenure-track job at Clemson

Pls share: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship competition now open at UBC. Department of Geography deadline is October 9, 2025. Details: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

It’s wild how some people act like being kind and inclusive is radical when really it’s the baseline of just being human.

We have a new paper developing methods for looking at bird-fire macroecology. What’s most fascinating to me is that the magnitude *and* direction of fire effects can vary enormously across a species range. Stationarity is dead!! Long live non-stationarity!! doi.org/10.1002/fee....

Many things are terrible, but try the slider on this map to see how much the share of electricity generated by solar has changed in recent years #climate #energy

It may seem hard to focus in at a time when climate research and higher education are both under assault, but as I and my co-authors argue here: Higher education institutions can accelerate societal climate action academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

A decade of change. In 2014, less than 4% of the world's electricity came from solar and wind. In 2024, this was 15%. Here's how the distribution across countries has changed (+ shifted upwards) over those 10 years. Data from @ember-energy.org

I am coming around to the view that at least some of the work at this point is to find ways to create (however imperfectly) a microcosm of our vision for the future in our everyday lives. Which is a big transition for me as someone who long held contempt for what I saw as lifestyle activism

An ordinal Scoville scale from today’s harvest 🌱 #food #garden

feel like everyone I know has covid or a ‘cold’ right now stay safe out there comrades

In the news at IU: Dr. Brian Yanites (@geomorphyuggs.bsky.social) is a principal investigator in the new Center for Land Surface Hazards, sponsored by NSF. Press release and more details: news.iu.edu/live/news/46...

The ENTIRE DEPARTMENT is slated for elimination, but it's still in proposal stage. Here's how to help: