Kai Kornhuber

@kornhuber.bsky.social

Theme Lead Weather Extremes & Climate Dynamics at IIASA, adj. assoc. Research Scientist LDEO, Co-Chair Risk KAN

Join us for the next IIASA AI for Climate Science Seminar with Dingling Yao, from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). Topic: Beyond prediction: Answering climate what-if questions from observations. 📅 9 Sep, 16:00 CET 💻 Online Register 👉 iiasa.ac.at/events/sep-2...

AI for Climate Science Seminar Series: Beyond Prediction - Answering Climate What-If Questions from Observations

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods are becoming increasingly important in both science and society. In climate science - where complex biophysical and societal processes in...

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Global warming is set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, a new UNEP report warns.   Predicted impacts include extreme weather and threats to human health and economies.

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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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It's important not just to memorialize people's professional achievements, but also the kind of people they were. This article detailed serious sexual assault allegations against Nims Purja, which the NY Times repeated in its reporting of his death, but many outlets did not.

For Female Climbers, Dangers Go Beyond Avalanches and Storms (Gift Article)

Women are increasingly reporting sexual harassment and abuse in the sport, including accusations against the renowned climber Nirmal Purja.

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Reporters used to have to write that no single weather event can be linked to climate change. The developing science of extreme weather attribution has changed that. And those who have damaged the climate might someday have to pay. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/c...

National Academies Report Backs Climate Change Attribution Science

Attribution science is advancing quickly, researchers said. That could support lawsuits seeking damages for severe events worsened by global warming.

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NEW: Climate change supercharged the rainfall that caused deadly flooding that killed almost 100 in Togo, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire. The most extreme rainfall fell between June 20-22 across coastal regions with more than 140mm falling in less than 24 hours in some major cities. (1/5)

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We are hiring an #editor (in India or China) with expertise in #AtmosphericChemistry to join our editorial team at Nature Communications! Please reach out if you have questions about the role or the team!

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Our #Earth and #Planetary team at Nature Communications is hiring a new #editor with expertise in #AtmosphericChemistry that will be based in our offices in #China or #India! Please spread the word and contact us if you have any questions! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

New AMS statement responds to a proposed OMB rule that would restructure federal grantmaking. The rule "would damage the nation’s ability to understand, predict, and respond to ... natural hazards with negative impacts on public safety and the economy." Read more: https://bit.ly/4awoYRO

New Rule Would Upend Science and Rewrite Federal Grantmaking

A new AMS statement and resource page respond to an OMB rule that would restructure federal grants and give political appointees vastly more authority over grantmaking.

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If you didn’t know, former @sciam.bsky.social owner Springer Nature sold us just three days ahead of the tally of the vote to unionize. It resulted in layoffs, including 60% of the union’s organizing committee. We’re out here to fight, to keep doing vital science journalism.

NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social

Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study

BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.

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Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

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