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Timely, given our recent paper led by Dimitris Herrerra on the important role of hurricanes in drought termination in the Americas agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Assessing the Role of Tropical Cyclones on Drought Characteristics in the Hurricane Region of the Americas Between 1983 and 2024

Tropical cyclones contribute 4%–15% of annual and seasonal mean precipitation across the Hurricane Region of the Americas While this is a small amount, tropical cyclones ended or reduced drought ...

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Matt Lanza@mattlanza.bsky.social · 5d ago

Drought couldn't last forever I guess.

Missed this article, with great comments from @thirstygecko.bsky.social and Brad Udall (among others): www.sciencenews.org/article/unit...

Will the U.S. megadrought ever end?

For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists think it might be here to stay.

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Kate Marvel discusses the effects of the loss of scientific research and the fallout from the elimination of thousands of research positions in this conversation with @chicoharlan.bsky.social, Global Climate Correspondent at @nytimes.com https://nyti.ms/4ygz96Q #climateweeknyc

Kate Marvel: The Cost of Cutting Science Funding - The New York Times Events

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I’ve updated the long-running (starts 1866) CRU Southern Oscillation Index (SOI). This lets us compare the currently developing El Niño with earlier events including 1877-78. 2026 has developed very quickly, similar to the 1997-98 one. Thick line is 3-month running mean, with y-axis reversed.

All the September dynamical ENSO models (including SINTEX) are now in, and they give a 100% chance of a record event this year using the Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) metric:

Get in losers-we're talking about how extreme heat seasons are changing around the world! New work led by former (sniffle) excellent postdoc @ccivanovich.bsky.social (advised by me and Sonali McDermid)

Casey Ivanovich@ccivanovich.bsky.social · last mo.

Feel like heatwaves started early this year? Or like they're dragging on later than ever? Our new @aguadvances.bsky.social paper shows that extreme heat is no longer limited to summer and is now creeping into the shoulder seasons -- but unevenly so. (1/6) doi.org/10.1029/2026...

We have a new paper on the response of land carbon to zero, declining, and negative emissions of CO2 across Earth System Models! w/ @ckoven.bsky.social @cristiproist.bsky.social @rosieafisher.bsky.social @benmsanderson.bsky.social & more (1/6) esd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

Land carbon response to positive, zero, and negative CO2 emissions across Earth system models

Abstract. Land carbon sinks are responsible for removing about a quarter of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, and make up approximately half of total global carbon sinks. Uncertainty in the response of lan...

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Recent high-severity wildfires in a dry-conifer landscape are unprecedented over five centuries and foretell future forest loss www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Recent high-severity wildfires in a dry-conifer landscape are unprecedented over five centuries and foretell future forest loss | PNAS

Dry forests of the western United States evolved with frequent, spatially extensive, low-severity fires, followed by a century of fire exclusion. R...

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The emissions scenarios underlying the next generation of climate model runs that will be featured in the upcoming IPCC 7th Assessment Report are officially out! I have a big new explainer over at Carbon Brief taking an in-depth look at what they mean and whats changed: www.carbonbrief.org/...

A striking finding from global drought experiments: Trees show little evidence of physiological acclimation to drought. The inner hydraulic machinery stays the same. The safety margin shrinks. That’s a very different, more vulnerable picture of forest resilience. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Declining hydraulic safety in a drier world | PNAS

Forests worldwide are increasingly exposed to soil drought under climate change, with their fates depending on the ability to maintain essential fu...

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Sleater-Kinney, 9:30 club, also my "climate change sucks in all sorts of ways" origin story I was at the show but they had to cancel it because it was so hot (even at 9pm) the transformer on the street started smoking

John Moe@johnmoe.bsky.social · last mo.

How about this? Best concerts that you ALMOST got to see but DIDN’T. Include reasons if you like: Rolling Stones (play rehearsal) Johnny Cash (I dallied) R.E.M. (play performance) Nirvana (canceled, college declined to pay requested $500 appearance fee)

Thrilled to share that my last PhD chapter is now published in @natcomms.nature.com! We investigated how past and present forcings have disrupted the interactions between the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans using paleo-archives and models! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Coupling of Pacific and Indian Ocean variability disrupted by 19th century volcanism - Nature Communications

The stability of inter-basin coupling between the tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean remains uncertain. This study shows that past volcanism can temporarily weaken this relationship, but recent decoupl...

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I've added a new interactive warming map to my Climate Dashboard, powered by the Berkeley Earth high-res (~25 km resolution) dataset. Click anywhere on the planet to see how temperatures have changed since 1850, and download data for that location in csv form: dashboard.theclimatebrink.com#map

🌎 Apply for the AGU26 Faculty Travel Grant! Open to early- to mid-career geoscience faculty at under-resourced institutions, including Emerging Research Institutions (ERIs), Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), and community colleges (2YCs). 🔗 Apply 18 September: spklr.io/63324ErHTC

July 2026 was the warmest month for average temperatures on record across the contiguous U.S., even surpassing the Dust Bowl. This was especially due to an increase in those dangerously high overnight temps. 📣 REGISTER for our next briefing to learn more: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

It's was always funny to me, the folks who treated temperatures during the worst US drought disaster of the 20th century like some kind of global warming "gotcha"

Yale Climate Connections@climateconnections.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We just broke a heat record set during the Dust Bowl. 😬 That record has been a favorite talking point of climate deniers. Now it's bitten the dust: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/08/the-... New from @drjeffmasters.bsky.social and @bhensonweather.bsky.social

when i get a citation alert from citing one of my previous papers

PAGES Hydroclimate2k Workshop! 📍 Vancouver, Canada (Hybrid) 📅 9–11 Nov 2026 🎯 Join the final quality-control phase of the Hydroclimate2k database and help shape its publication and future science. 📝 Apply by 7 August 🔗More info: pastglobalchanges.org/calendar/138...

📣 Registration is now open for experts to review the First Order Draft of the Working Group I contribution to IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report. Interested experts can register until 25 Sept 2026 🔗 https://bit.ly/4vi25cq The review starts 10 August until 2 October. More 🔗 https://bit.ly/WGI7Fod

About time! www.theclimatebrink.com/p/fixing-one...

Fixing one of climate’s worst plots

the 1930s were hot over the U.S. Midwest, but not that hot

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Extreme weather is complicated (there are over 150 definitions of drought in the literature!), the Earth system is complex, models are imperfect, and we still have much to learn. But it's remarkable how spot-on most of our predictions have been: drawdown.org/insights/is-...

Is climate change unfolding faster and fiercer than scientists expected?

Climate change is undeniably here, and it’s bad. But is it, as some are claiming, worse than even the scientists expected?

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I am pleased to announce that we are inviting applications for a Lead Laboratory Coordinator at the University of Arizona’s Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. Review of applications will begin on September 15, 2026. For details and to apply, visit arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

2026 El Niño models continue their inexorable march upwards. CanSIPS (which used to be among the cooler ones!) released their August runs today, and now show a Nov/Dec peak of 3.6C (CanESM5) and 4.2C (GEM-NEMO). For reference, the prior record El Niño peaked at 2.8C.

Another week, another strikingly powerful heat dome in the US, this time in the West. This could be the start of a long duration extreme heat event, too. Details: www.cnn.com/2026/07/30/w...

A record-challenging heat dome is about to bake the West with the summer’s hottest temperatures so far | CNN

An unusually strong heat dome will scorch much of the western United States this weekend, bringing the hottest temperatures so far this year to tens of millions from California to Canada.

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Water Limits Radial Tree Growth More Than Light in an Everwet Subtropical Forest onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Water Limits Radial Tree Growth More Than Light in an Everwet Subtropical Forest

We deployed automated point dendrometers on 35 trees representing three life history strategies in an everwet subtropical forest with 3500 mm rain annually and no pronounced dry season. Contrary to t....

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My alma mater (College of the Atlantic) is hiring faculty in Field Ecology, Agroecology, and Chemistry. If you're looking for a very cool small liberal arts college on the coast of Maine with a strong environmental focus, check it out (happy to answer questions!): www.coa.edu/human-resour...

Career Opportunities | College of the Atlantic

Career opportunities at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor Maine.

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Fires depend on: ♨️ Weather ⚡ Ignition 🍂 Fuel 🧯 Suppression In North America: ♨️ Climate change = hotter and drier ⚡Ignition = no real change 🍂 Fire deficit = more fuel 🧯Warmer nights = suppression is hard What should we do? 📉 Cut emissions ✅ 🔥 Controlled burns ✅ 🍁 Rake more? ❌ 🇨🇦 Be mean to Canada ❌

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2mo ago

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

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 · 2mo ago

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

Climate change, even natural climate change, has been the bane of civilizations before. The Bronze Age collapse was one of the dramatic ones, and extreme drought events might have been at the center of it all.🧪 Link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aed5439​