🪧 New paper led by Sonali McDermid's group demonstrating regional inequities in climate research published in top-tier journals (based on Impact Factor and other criteria) ~65% of studies analyzed featured 27 Annex I countries, while another 62% featured 75 non-Annex-I countries rdcu.be/fxStf

Cereal yields have increased in all regions, but Africa lags behind. Improved crop yields have allowed the world to feed billions more people while sparing forests and other land from agriculture. Global yields of cereal crops have tripled since 1961.

Widespread smoke and haze-filled skies remain over the Pacific Northwest as wildfires continue to burn in the region.

ICYMI: “Residents in B.C.'s north Okanagan region say they had to leave their homes, possessions and in some cases their pets behind to escape a rapidly spreading wildfire near Vernon.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - CBC News BC #BCWildfire #BradleyCreekWildfire #OkanaganIndianBand #VernonBC

'We're all pretty stressed out': Okanagan residents flee fast-spreading fire | CBC News

Residents in B.C.'s north Okanagan region say they had to leave their homes, possessions and in some cases their pets behind to escape a rapidly spreading wildfire near Vernon.

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This is important - Honest Brokers (TM) and their echo chamber will often point to the decreasing global wildfire, but that reflects changing human land use practices. In temperate and boreal forests, climate's role is more clear. See this paper by Cunningham et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Increasing frequency and intensity of the most extreme wildfires on Earth - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Analysis of fire radiative power derived from satellite data finds that the frequency of extreme fire events increased 2.2-fold from 2003 to 2023 and that these increases were mostly driven by extreme...

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The Associated Press@apnews.com · last wk.

Experts say the world is experiencing two opposing fire trends because of human impact.

Its in the news today, seems timely to reshare this recent article defining and characterizing heat domes across the North America. #heatwave #heatdome

Deepti Singh@climatechirper.bsky.social · 2w ago

🥵 Heat domes! What exactly are they? In this timely new paper led by Paul Loikith, we provide a quantitative definition based on circulation and surface temperatures and present their climatology. Figure ⬇️ shows proportion of extreme heat events associated with a heat dome doi.org/10.1016/j.wa...

How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse? theconversation.com/how-do-scien...

How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse?

A National Academy of Sciences report examined the latest advances in extreme event attribution science. As four of the authors explain, the type of disaster makes a difference.

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A week late but excited to share @nationalacademies.org report on Attribution of Extreme Events and their Impacts. Had the opportunity to work with amazing colleagues to reflect on the incredible progress in EEA and review the breadth of applications @climate-done.bsky.social @jmarlon.bsky.social

Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Their Impacts

Decades of data and research indicate that human-caused climate change is altering the frequency and intensity of several types of extreme events, such as heat waves and extreme rainfall events. Even...

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"They get blisters on their feet, their eyes become watery and the hot sand burns their skin and eats up their hair when they are sitting" bbc.com/news/article...

Africa's camels are dying from extreme heat as temperatures soar

Herders and experts tell the BBC how Africa's camels are suffering because of extreme heat.

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This is a helpful article for anyone in the climate risk space. I especially appreciated the discussion of compounding and cascading risks. "Today’s climate stands apart, distinguished by its torrid global synchrony"

Scott St. George@scottstgeorge.paleohydrology.com · 2w ago

I’m a little embarrassed to post this for the academic crowd, but in case anybody is interested about how things are sometimes done over here: “A few basic things I’ve learned about catastrophe and climate risk modeling after four years in the insurance industry.” www.wtwco.com/en-us/insigh...

🥵 Heat domes! What exactly are they? In this timely new paper led by Paul Loikith, we provide a quantitative definition based on circulation and surface temperatures and present their climatology. Figure ⬇️ shows proportion of extreme heat events associated with a heat dome doi.org/10.1016/j.wa...

Last week, lighting from thunderstorms ignited dozens of fires in Central Oregon. These wildfires have continued to burn for several days, scorching hundreds of thousands of acres of land in the region.

On Mon, Jul 20 at 1pm PT, I'll host a live discussion focusing on last week's "lightning bust" wildfire outbreak in PacNW, potential impacts of TS Elida's remnants in CA/PacNW (inc. more lightning), and our rapidly-strengthening El Niño event.

Pacific NW "lightning bust" wildfires, TS Elida moisture & dry thunderstorms? Plus: El Niño update - YouTube

The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive #weather and #climate-focused "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain. 07/20/2026 topic: I...

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🔖 NASEM (@nationalacademies.org) will release the report on Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Their Impacts on July 16. This field of science has grown rapidly over the past decade. Join the webinar at 1 PM ET to learn about these advances. Registration information below👇

Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and their Impacts Report Release Webinar

This webinar will present the new National Academies report Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Their Impacts, releasing prior to the webinar on July 16. Members of the authoring com...

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Long-range transport of smoke from late‑June wildfires in North America and Eurasia shows the 2026 boreal fire season is now picking up after a relatively calm start of the year. The #CopernicusAtmosphere is tracking emissions from these fires and others currently burning in southern Europe. More ⬇️

The thing about solar geoengineering is that there is zero evidence that humankind is currently capable of the sort of global governance needed to deploy it responsibly and ethically, and if it were capable, it probably would not be needed.

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 2mo ago

‘Termination shock’: trust our expert warnings on geoengineering’s planetary risks | New op-ed in @theguardian.com by Ray Pierrehumbert (@climatebook.bsky.social), Julia Slingo, @valmasdel.bsky.social & yours truly: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Interested in disaster resilience? Register for this talk hosted by the Aspen Global Change Institute here. It is happening tomorrow (Tuesday) at 4 p.m. Mountain Time agci-org.zoom.us/.../WN_G9rJ1....

😢 "the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show."

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

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For example, researchers at @ncar-ucar.bsky.social have developed tools that provide detailed weather guidance to pilots, dispatchers, air traffic controllers, and airport operators, including the wind shear alert system used at airports across the country.

📎📜 Paper on the climatology and drivers of extreme atmospheric ridges over western North America led by my postdoc (Dr. Xiaoyu Bai). Such ridges (or high-pressure systems) are often associated with a range of surface temperature and precipitation extremes @siiribigalke.bsky.social rdcu.be/eXGW5

🥵 📜 New paper on the emergence of trends in humid heat intensity and duration in recent decades over South Asia led by Dr. Jitendra Singh with @sebastian-sippel.bsky.social @erichfischer.bsky.social doi.org/10.1088/2752... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social

Emergence of strong trends in humid heat intensity and duration in recent decades over South Asia

Emergence of strong trends in humid heat intensity and duration in recent decades over South Asia, Singh, Jitendra, Singh, Deepti, Sippel, Sebastian, Fischer, Erich

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What's NCAR? and 8 ways it has helped you www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

“The research done at NCAR is an investment by every single tax-paying citizen in the United States, and it benefits all of us,” said UCS's @marc-alessi.bsky.social. “We are able to predict the weather days in advance, giving warning for hurricanes, extreme precipitation events, and droughts.”

We're all at risk if Trump dismantles this legendary lab

Breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research would be a "genuinely shocking self-inflicted wound."

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It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo ago

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate

Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science

Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.

nature.com

This is not an exaggeration: There is not a single weather forecaster, TV meteorologist, airline pilot, computer scientist, or climate scientist in the WORLD whose work or life wasn't directly or indirectly improved or influenced by the science done at NCAR. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

100,000 Ordered to Evacuate as Rivers Rise in Washington State www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...

100,000 Ordered to Evacuate as Rivers Rise in Washington State

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Detection and attribution of the human influence on extreme weather and climate events doi.org/10.1088/2752... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social

Shoutout to Dmitri Kalashnikov, John Abatzoglou, Nicholas Nauslar, Daniel Swain, Danielle Touma and Deepti Singh for their fantastic study of California dry lightning patterns that helped with forecast confidence ahead of today’s lightning siege and associated wildfires.

Anthony Edwards@edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Sept. is climatological peak of dry lightning season in the lower elevations of CA (Kalashnikov et al.) cc @weatherwest.bsky.social iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Engrossing meeting of the minds at the workshop this week. Nine creative yet plausible storylines were developed and a whole range of new cxns made. Thanks again to all who attended, and especially those who made it happen. We're excited to see what this format & these ideas can catalyze!