As we crossed the new portal bridge at 22km/h (according to phone Tacho), I wonder once more - why are trains between New York Penn and Newark Penn so slow? (Do @alonlevy.bsky.social @ndhapple.bsky.social @a320lga.bsky.social know? 😬)

Würde mal wirklich gerne die wissenschaftliche Literatur sehen, die diese Professoren bei ihren Klimaanlagengedanken unterstützt, weil es scheint eine andere zu seien als die, die mir bekannt ist 🫠

Dr. Philoponus@drphiloponus.bsky.social · last wk.

Ja, klar. Wenn es 42 Grad hat, dann stelle ich die Klimaanlage bestimmt auf 38 Grad ein.

Heute beginnt die zweite große Hitzewelle in diesem Jahr und besonders im Osten wird es wieder eine extreme. ⚠️ Hier die aktuelle Prognose für Wien: 35° Heute 38° Morgen 39° FR 36° SA 36° SO 39° MO 39° DI 35° MI

SNW S4E1 asks the bold question, what if, all along, the humans in Enders Game, actually the good guys?

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...

NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship applications are now open! cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc/annual-r... I was one about 350 years ago, and cannot not speakly highly enough of this program. Applications due October 16, 2026

Moving this discussion out of Gavin's replies. NOAA is about to update their precip frequency atlas to account for global warming non-stationarity (more rain!) In practice, what difference might that make to infrastructure design, insurance, legal compliance, etc? DISCUSS!

Cristi Proistosescu@cristiproist.bsky.social · 3w ago

Another important point is that NOAA should be releasing Atlas 15 (modulo Dept of Commerce shenanigans) soon. Atlas 15 does allow for non-stationarity in precipitation distributions, for both current and past precip (Volume 1) and future precept (Volume 2) water.noaa.gov/about/atlas15

Here is a map of the magnitude of non-stationarity in 100-year storm. How much wetter have 100-year storms been getting. And a distribution of how what is now a 100-year storm under Atlas 14 would be reclassified under Atlas 15 (for present day, and 1.5C). 2/

More importantly, those defenses that you built at the 100-year design standard based on NOAA Atlas 14? If you look at the map, east of the 100 meridian that design standard is probably about 20% too low for what Atlas 15 will say is a 100-year storm TODAY. 5/5

The forest management argument, largely valid in a California pine stand, mostly falls apart when you move it a couple of thousand kilometers north. Today's Climate Brink post provides in-depth details as to why: www.theclimatebrink.com/p/canadas-bo...

Canada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest management

Higher fire season temperatures are strongly correlated with increased area burned

theclimatebrink.com

Cowardly subtweet of a large portion of my feed today: Reminder that high PM also makes you angrier (online and in real life). I, too, should get off this site this week. (Eg pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... )

Effects of PM2.5 on People’s Emotion: A Case Study of Weibo (Chinese Twitter) in Beijing

PM2.5 not only harms physical health but also has negative impacts on the public’s wellbeing and cognitive and behavioral patterns. However, traditional air quality assessments may fail to provide com...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

was für ein Sommer? mit Stichtag gestern haben wir in Wien 20 Hitzetage mehr als im Schnitt der aktuellen Klimanormalperiode, 51 Sommertage und 10 Tropennächte mehr als früher üblich:

Der komischste Aberglaube imo in der Klimaanlagendebatte ist die Existenz einer eigenen Kategorie an “empfindliche Bevölkerungsgruppen” gibt, die in eigenen Gebäuden, irgendwie abseits dem Rest der Gesellschaft wohnen (oder wohnen sollen?). (Artikel hier: www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/mue... )

🌡️ Wie hat sich die Hitzewelle in der Kalenderwoche 26 auf die Sterblichkeit in Deutschland ausgewirkt? Zur Schätzung der hitzebedingten Sterbefälle erstellt das RKI eine Modellierung, die Daten vom Statistischen Bundesamt und @dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social kombiniert. ➡️ www.rki.de/hitzemortali...

Downzoning in Chicago, like in many areas, resulted in: —Less housing —Higher housing costs —Higher white population share

Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸@jmisci.bsky.social · 4w ago

Not to rub salt on the wound but this is a tiktok post from one of the Metra board members that Brandon Johnson just re-nominated. Just pure left-NIMBYism So I am not expecting much upzoning or TOD effort from Metra anytime soon (unless it’s 100% affordable and therefore unsustainable)

Trifft ja nur die, die "mit Hitze" und nicht "an Hitze" starben - oder wie war das noch? "Offizielle Statistik weist mehr als 5500 zusätzliche Todesfälle während der Juni-Hitze aus." www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Extremwetter im Frühsommer: Offizielle Statistik weist mehr als 5500 zusätzliche Todesfälle während der Juni-Hitze aus

Während der Hitzewelle Ende Juni sind in Deutschland deutlich mehr Menschen gestorben als für diese Jahreszeit üblich. Experten sehen einen klaren Zusammenhang mit den Rekordtemperaturen.

spiegel.de

The global surface temperature record is one of the most iconic figures in climate science. We now have 12 different groups of researchers from the US, UK, EU, Japan, and China (among others) that have calculated it and found nearly identical results:

From this same program in Vienna: some locations with particularly many illegal parking incidents that block a bus or tram lane are being turned into microparks! (with the street parking removed entirely) now there’s an idea @mayor.nyc.gov (translation in alt text)

Florian Stöger@fdms.eu · last mo.

Source: www.wienerlinien.at/modernisieru...

🚨REMINDER🚨 to submit to our session on climate impacts on people at AGU 2026!

Christopher Callahan@ccallahan45.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Anyone going to AGU 2026 - submit to our session! GC036: Data-driven approaches to quantifying climate impacts on human well-being. If your research deals with the causal effects of climate variability + change on people, we want to hear about it. agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...

"We find that congestion pricing improves EMS performance, reducing total travel times by 63–70 seconds, approximately 5-6 percent...These findings suggest that cost-benefit analyses of congestion pricing systematically understate net social benefits by omitting emergency response improvements."

Congestion Pricing and EMS Response Time: Evidence From New York City

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

nber.org

There are growing indications that large, intense, & perhaps record-breaking mid-atmospheric high pressure system (aka a "heat dome") will develop somewhere between Rockies & Central Plains by mid-Jul. This could bring a widespread & severe heatwave across much of the U.S.

Menschen sterben in der Hitze, unsere Infrastruktur hat ihre Grenzen erreicht. Was dringend nötig ist: - Anpassen an die Erwärmung, die wir bereits haben (+3°C in Österreich) - verhindern, dass unsere Temperatur ungebremst weiteransteigt. orf.at/stories/3434...

Schäden und Ausfälle: Hitze bringt Infrastruktur an Grenzen

Die brütende Hitze setzt nicht nur Lebewesen zu – in einigen europäischen Ländern haben die hohen Temperaturen bereits Infrastruktur in verschiedenen Bereichen an ihre Grenzen gebracht, auch in Österr...

orf.at

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

Bringing so-called ‘negative’ results into interactive open access #publications with the new #EGU manuscript formats: LESSONS (Limitations, Errors, Surprises, Shortcomings and Opportunities for New Science)! Find out more: egu.eu/3M3CH1 📸 Debayan Chatterjee on imaggeo.egu.eu

Sort of spurred by this: I still think that part of the whole Post Pandemic Social Settlement should have been a huge (inter)national effort to properly ventilate our spaces and that should have included ACs and heat pumps for places in Europe, and it's just a shame we generally didn't do this.

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · last mo.

UK cannot ‘air con its way’ out of this heatwave says Professor www.channel4.com/news/uk-cann...

Successive record-breaking European heatwaves in the same summer - as we are experiencing now - are exactly what @drlaurasuarez.bsky.social shows could happen: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Anyone going to AGU 2026 - submit to our session! GC036: Data-driven approaches to quantifying climate impacts on human well-being. If your research deals with the causal effects of climate variability + change on people, we want to hear about it. agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...

About to embark on a climate (S2S or longer) prediction problem using AI/ML? Well, you might want to check out this brand new BAMS paper by my colleagues and I on the recommended steps for how to preprocess your dataset before making those predictions. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...