Climate Change is making wildfires worse, but global wildfire burn area is declining. So what does the future hold in store? My latest post at The Trade-Off: open.substack.com/pub/thetrade...
Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD
@ryankatzrosene.bsky.social
Professor studying contentious climate debates, climate urgency, 'Climateflation', and society-environment relations (and all things Canada 🇨🇦). Co-Host http://EcopoliticsPodcast.ca Views are my own (not my employer's)!
A scene from Adam McKay’s forthcoming Mockumentary “Don’t Breathe In”:
More evidence of Climateflation: This briefing note from researchers at LSE found that last month's heat wave in the UK cost the domestic economy more than £1 billion in lost output due to its effects on worker productivity: www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
I think this passed under the radar (pun intended), but the world may have just recorded an all-time record in Commercial Flights (I think): 153,359 FLIGHTS! Yesterday alone!
Seems like we oughta talk about average fire size per year in Canada...
Every world region has warmed since the mid-20th Century. The Arctic and Europe seems to be warming more than other regions though.
"Researchers at McGill and Adolfo Ibañez universities found that spending time in nature, even briefly, calms and settles the brain, reduces stress and mental clutter and restores attention. Through the use of EEG and various Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technologies, the effect is quantifiable"
Holy crap! "Since 2009, the per-capita incidence of Lyme disease has increased approximately 32-fold for all of Canada — with even higher increases in Nova Scotia — according to calculations by Canada’s National Observer using data from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)."
My Sunday deep dive into the current politics of Canada's wildfires and the US anger about smoke: open.substack.com/pub/thetrade...
Holy Smokes! Tariffs, Sanctions, and Threatening Letters, Oh My!
(How not to deal with Canada's wildfire smoke situation)
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Here's an easy to read deep dive into the relationship between wildfires and climate change in North America. I wrote it after speaking several experts in this area. In some ways it's complicated. In other ways not really... Link to Part 1: thetradeoff.substack.com/p/north-amer...
North America’s forests used to burn a lot more than present…
So, is climate change really making wildfires worse today?
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How's that nation-building pipeline coming along Carney?
Sadly, this is not a joke: "The U.S. Global Change Research Program is now headed by Matthew Wielicki" It's like putting a Flat Earther in charge of NASA. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
The administration has a new climate change office. It’s headed by a climate critic.
The office that produces the National Climate Assessment has been reconstituted, after the administration gutted it last year.
politico.com
This is a great read on the basic science of climate warming with perspectives on recent observational trends.
Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD@ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 4w agoMy latest at the Stack: thetradeoff.substack.com/p/wtf-is-hap...
My latest at the Stack: thetradeoff.substack.com/p/wtf-is-hap...
WTF is happening with Earth’s Energy Imbalance?
On the face of it, the situation with Earth’s Energy Imbalance seems straight forward: If the amount of energy entering the Earth system is higher than the amount leaving it, then Earth is going to wa...
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My latest at the Stack: thetradeoff.substack.com/p/wtf-is-hap...
WTF is happening with Earth’s Energy Imbalance?
On the face of it, the situation with Earth’s Energy Imbalance seems straight forward: If the amount of energy entering the Earth system is higher than the amount leaving it, then Earth is going to wa...
thetradeoff.substack.com
You know when you’re driving at night in a snowstorm, and it looks like you’re flying warp speed through space in the starship enterprise? 😅 Well… there’s a particular form of auroras that I call laser beam pulses that creates a similar effect, except it’s Earth, not your car…
Ooh pretty with a bit of sunset leftovers
“The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) could weaken under a flood of Greenland meltwater, but this slowdown would be gradual and it would reverse if global warming were halted, according to a state-of-the-art climate model.” Great! Let’s not test it though.
There were 1300 excess deaths last week in Europe related to the heat dome. apnews.com/article/fran...
Europe's record heat has overwhelmed Paris mortuaries and left families in distress
A record-breaking heat wave has overwhelmed mortuaries in Paris, leaving funeral directors struggling to find space for bodies.
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We planted some haskap berries a few years ago and each year they just get bigger and more delicious
Much of the rest of the world was cookin', but Spring 2026 in Canada was 🥶🥶🥶
It’s not the Sun causing global warming exhibit no. 42948472728007 (Charts show TSI, 1610-2024 and global annual mean surface temperature anomalies 1850-2025, from Climate.us)
New article further theorizing 'Climateflation' in the field of International Political Economy, with @james7jackson.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Enter the great volatility? Synthesizing a theory of ‘climateflation’ for international political economy
International Political Economy (IPE) has long viewed inflation as a central force driving instability. More recently, scholars have foregrounded climate change as a central theme of analysis for I...
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Somber reminder that according to the IPCC, at 1.5C of global warming, a 50-year extreme heat event is 8.6X more likely to occur than in the pre-Industrial climate; and it is on average +2.0C hotter. By the time we reach 2C of warming, it's 13.9X more likely & 2.7C hotter (avg).
