Having lived in Serbia during Fulbright, I am excited to announce opportunity. Interested in learning about the Balkans, drink rakiya, visit Sarajevo, Tito's Bunker or a 16th-century Ottoman-era bridge? Share with networks that may be interested such topics. #professionaldevelopment #geography

At least 70% of US households are uninsured or underinsured against floods, yet climate change is rapidly increasing the number and severity of flooding in the US. This doesn’t end well for most people—unless we do something about it now. @lortizuriarte.bsky.social @virginiaclimate.bsky.social

Who loses when America loses top scientists? America does. Reduced funding for scientific research is an unforced error of epic proportions. Tell your members of Congress to stop the madness. www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

Who loses when the POTUS wages war on clean energy? Everyone (except fossil fuel & utility company CEOs + their lobbyists). The latest casualty in Virginia? Solar for All, plus the clean air & water, better health, and local jobs it would have produced. @virginiaclinicians.bsky.social

There's a new 2025 peak demand record in ERCOT: 82,566 megawatts at 4:55 today. Solar provided 30% of the power at that time and wind about 16%; wholesale power was just $22/MWh. No conservation alerts. No energy emergencies. Just abundant, affordable power. #txlege #txenergy

Heat is deadly. Ensuring people have air conditioning is more important now than ever

It's the last weekend before the #AGU25 #abstract submission #deadline, which means it is finally time to submit your abstracts and crash their website. If you are working on #urban-scale processes, consider submitting to our sessions (links below). 1. lnkd.in/gXXtKvtb 2. lnkd.in/gWuN2Yw6

If you are having trouble finding National Climate Assessment reports, they are here. www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Global emissions from heating are about 4x those from cooling. Air conditioning is an important and lifesaving adaptation to climate change. Decarbonize the grid.

"Rising food prices are the second-largest effect of climate change that people see in their day-to-day lives, only exceeded by extreme heat" Link to study since, you know, WSJ apparently didn't feel the need to include: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

New @floodlab.bsky.social paper on wildfire risk mitigation - Mitigation behaviors of homeowners and renters in the wildland urban interface www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

550p: Flash flood warnings now stretch from near Haymarket to Bethesda as cluster of storms is is unloading. A few spots with 3” of rain. Don’t drive in this if you can avoid….should slowly fade next 30-45 mins. #cwgalert

Everyone is acting like US scientists will just go get science jobs elsewhere and sure some will but there are not anywhere close to enough science jobs elsewhere. The end result of this will be much, much, much less science, not science happening in different places.

Tip of the cap to any state proactively working to identify natural hazard risk areas. This is not a trivial exercise, nor one that ends without A LOT of feedback. Oregon tried creating their own wildfire maps, and then took a step back. Washington now giving it a try. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Most climate denial falls into one of five general categories: It’s not real It’s not us It’s not bad We can’t fix it It’s too late Conspiracy theories about secret experiments have been around for decades and they fall solidly into category 2 above: “it’s not us, it’s THEM” For more, watch:

Many states - Texas, Utah - actively participate in weather modification (cloud seeding) to help address water supply issues. The process disperses silver iodide, a substance that encourages ice crystal formation in clouds, increasing precipitation. Imagine H2O issues without it! Education 101

With more than 10 inches of rain in spots, Tropical Storm Chantal produced flooding and damage across central NC over the past 24 hours. #ncwx Our latest blog post reviews the rainfall totals, river crests, and other initial impacts from Chantal. 📰: climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2025/07...

Tragedy in Texas hill country, where 4 months’ worth of rain in just four hours caused Guadalupe River levels to spike 30 feet in just an hour and a half - in the middle of the night. Two dozen are dead in the resulting floods and another 20 young campers still missing. apnews.com/article/texa...

If the #NOAA budget passes Congress, it guts NOAA labs that: – Predicted Idalia’s rapid intensification – Tracked East Palestine’s toxic plume – Forecast NYC’s 2023 smoke emergency – Linked the 2021 PNW heat dome to climate change – Run the Mauna Loa CO₂ record open.substack.com/pub/chrisglo...

"Eat real food, mostly plants, not too much" is great dietary guidance for people (and the planet), expressed simply & clearly. This new article outlines what governments, food companies, and the rest of us can do to help people eat this way. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

Keeping an eye on the Producer Price Index (PPI) for US asphalt shingle / roof coating and other construction material. Such indices remain at or near historical highs. This is notable for replacement or insurance costs as we head toward peak hurricane season and remain in peak thunderstorm season.

Extreme heat + humidity can be deadly. Protect yourself and your family by being heat smart. Protect our climate--and all life on the planet--by telling your elected representatives to do everything possible to support the clean energy revolution.

Our new article (www.nature.com/articles/s42...), a @georgemasonu.bsky.social collab led by PhD student @fatemehj.bsky.social, uncovers potential network-wide impacts of extreme heat on passenger rail in the US.

VCC is collaborating with the City of Fairfax to inform flood planning and build resiliency to extreme flood events. 🌊🚧 Learn more from Mayor Catherine Read & local flood experts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuv2...

The rate of warming is unprecedented.

@virginiaclimate.bsky.social is providing key technical assistance to Virginia's communities. Your contributions will help us scale that work to more communities who need data about their changing climate landscape!

My conversation with @jencarfagnoweather.bsky.social on Weather Geeks is now out! We discuss context & tough realities surrounding the wildfire disasters in LA, and also my unusual scientific & public roles in the weather/climate world. Thanks for having me! open.spotify.com/epi...

We are hiring for a Senior Climate Scientist at @ucsusa.bsky.social. Join us! apply.workable.com/union-of-con...

Journalists & Meteorologists! Applications are open for the 2025 @SciCommAwards, honoring exceptional science communicators & journalists who have developed creative, original work to communicate issues or advances in science. More details & apply ▶️ www.nationalacademies.org/awards/excel...

We still have the wind chimes. theonion.com/noaa-cuts-le...

Enhancing effectiveness of climate communication has been a Capt. Ahab-like obsession of my friend & colleague Connie Roser-Renouf since we first identified the Six Americas segments in 2009. Her latest research: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @mason4c.bsky.social @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social

Hurricane season is coming. theeyewall.com/austerity-me...

In a climate first, this ad will appear on the Super Bowl vimeo.com/1054574072 #LaterisTooLate #ProtectWhatYouLove

The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.

Review of 130 papers uncovers key barriers to EV adoption, from high costs & charging gaps to supply chain disruptions & equity issues. Highlights: Charging deserts limit access. Mineral & chip shortages slow progress. #TransportSky #TransportationJustice Paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Katharine Hayhoe: "...ningún Gobierno puede detener la acción climática. El mundo está cambiando rápidamente. Solo el año pasado, China instaló + paneles solares que EEUU en toda su historia. Todos los países están cambiando, EEUU está decidiendo quedarse atrás". elpais.com/clima-y-medi...

New research shows more than 1.5 million people die each year from air pollution caused by wildfires: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... This supports my thesis that fossil fuels & climate change are the leading preventable cause of death worldwide. @lshtm.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social

What's next for NYC and the NYC Panel on Climate Change? Great article outlining key climate challenges facing New York amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/01...

Just a few more days to apply! Tinyurl.com/2025CBCI

You can say, “gravity isn’t real,” but if you step off the cliff, you’re still going down. And if you convince other people it’s not real, you are responsible for what happens if they make decisions based on the information you withheld.

The White House released the National Resilience Strategy: www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo..., building on the earlier resilience framework. Download it and use it to help inform state and local climate resilience efforts. 🔌💡

If you're attending #AMS2025 and interested in how academia and industry can collaborate on climate and risk, check our talk summarizing dozens of interviews with people in insurance and finance to inform industry-relevant research tomorrow morning: ams.confex.com/ams/105ANNUA...

Senator, I believe the memo was called www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’m a scientist who studies how climate change impacts our lives and the places we love. Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below! We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚

It's striking that, according to Munich Re, a growing share of these losses are due to secondary perils like flooding and convective storms even if the major perils still had the individually highest losses.

Insured losses from natural disasters topped $140 billion in 2024, up from $106 billion in 2023, reports Munich Re, the world's largest insurer. “Climate change is taking the gloves off. Hardly any other year has made the consequences of global warming so clear.” www.munichre.com/en/company/m...

This is a great idea and MTA should immediately flex some extra buses on crowded routes to expand bus frequency, to show that congestion pricing helps their lives.

As @scottpwaldman.bsky.social writes here, “two former Trump White House officials told me [about] a meeting in first Trump admin where they discussed firing the climate scientists who worked on the fourth National Climate Assessment, which they tried to bury.”

Whatever we as a climate movement are doing to get more of the things and systems we need are the actions that both improve people’s lives and build up coalitions to get more.