Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency announced Friday that the winter of 2023-24 was the hottest on record in U.S. history. Global records have been kept s...
https://www.juancole.com/2024/03/americas-hottest-wildfires.html
By René van Westen, Utrecht University; Henk A. Dijkstra, Utrecht University; and Michael Kliphuis, Utrecht University | – Superstorms, abrupt climate shifts and New York City frozen in ice. T...
https://www.juancole.com/2024/02/glaciers-atlantic-catastrophes.html
By Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton | – National weather analysts released their 2023 billion-dollar disasters list on Jan. 9, just as 2024 was getting off to a ferocious start. A blizzard wa...
https://www.juancole.com/2024/01/hottest-unprecedented-disasters.html
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says that 2023 is on track to be the hottest year ever recorded, i.e. in the past 174 years. In fact, it likel...
https://www.juancole.com/2023/12/hottest-heating-concert.html
Here is my latest column for The Nation Institute’s must-read Tomdispatch.com site. Make sure to check out the original for legendary journalist Tom Engelhardt’s fantastic introduction. And s...
https://www.juancole.com/2023/12/fuelized-hottest-gaslighted.html
By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – German industry is increasingly investing in climate protection measures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reported just before the UN Clima...
https://www.juancole.com/2023/12/investments-protection-increased.html
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The non-profit collective of high-powered scientists, Climate Central, has released a new report demonstrating that the past 12 months have been the hottest on re...
https://www.juancole.com/2023/11/climate-produced-hottest.html
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Informed Comment is pleased to present below an interview with climate scientist Michael E. Mann, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Sc...
https://www.juancole.com/2023/10/catastrophic-inundation-pollution.html
By Timothy Neal, UNSW Sydney | – Scientists say severe climate change is now the greatest threat to humanity. Extreme weather is expected to upend lives and livelihoods, intensifying wildfires ...
https://www.juancole.com/2023/10/economists-underestimated-financial.html