US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference reut.rs/4x9eTCW

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.

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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 · last wk.

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

Timely... "Canada’s 2023 wildfire smoke caused a 2.8 percent drop in solar power generation, costing two billion dollars" Follows the @costasamaras.com rule where you know exactly what you get from the title Haven't gotten to do this in a minute: Physical risk 🤝 Transition risk

El Nino thread! 🌊 My Key Takeaways: 1. This event is well on its way to being a very strong event rarely seen in the last 75 years. 2. Right now, it's most likely not the strongest on record. 3. The warming of the nino3.4 region due to climate change does not add to El Nino strength!

Good, broad piece on US / ICE automakers getting demolished in Australia. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Automakers in shock as China takes over

In June, a bulk carrier made an unprecedented delivery of EVs to Australia, sounding an ominous warning to the world's automakers.

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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...

Lake Mead and Lake Powell have fallen to their lowest combined levels on record, a grim milestone in the Colorado River's deepening crisis www.latimes.com/environment/...

'A five-alarm fire': Western reservoirs that supply California fall to record low levels

The Colorado River's largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, have declined to the lowest combined levels on record. Researchers say this underscores the urgent need to cut water use.

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Beach holidays in the climate crisis, France. As an old viral quote said: “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it.”

James Doohan wasn’t just Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, he wasa Canadian who served his country and landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Then he turned to acting, was trained by Lorne Greene and even helped develop the Klingon language. This is his story. 📸 NBC 🧵 1/12

I had a reporter ask me if there was any connection between the fires in Canada and the flooding in Texas. I said: of course there is a connection. The connection is increasing temperatures.

List of words to use instead of "very" is actually very helpful. buff.ly/2tz4fu4

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

As wildfire smoke blankets tens of millions of Americans, schools need a rethink of how they plan for and react to wildfire smoke events. Jessica Yu on our team spent two years deploying monitors in school classrooms to measure smoke intrusion into individual rooms.

The air quality in Minneapolis is among the worst in the world. Here’s how to avoid exposure to the fine particles that can damage your health.

Wildfire smoke is blanketing Minnesota. Here’s how to stay safe.

The air quality in Minneapolis is among the worst in the world. Here’s how to avoid exposure to the fine particles that can damage your health.

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Over the past few hours, things have turned pretty grim here in Minneapolis. "Minnesota repeatedly broke its record for worst air quality on Wednesday." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Record smoke levels north, high heat south across Minnesota

We break up smoke, wind, rain and temperatures into four sections so you can scroll to what you want to read about.

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Our 2026 fire season was quiet, and just like the rapid transition from winter to summer (bypassing spring) in much Canada, our fire season went from quiet to crazy full on. Rapid increase in area burned (and smoke) from fires in the NWT and QC and more recently ON. See hot spot graph below

Behold, the face of someone who knows he is definitely not allowed on the couch, nevermind reclining on the pillow…!

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

Also if you are talking to researchers. And it’s worse if you say so while pointing out its obvious flaws. All this tells us is that you are lazy and you don’t care.

MadScientist@mads100tist.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you are a researcher that uses slop machines to create figures for your talk, you are embarassing yourself

Wherein private equity closed-end funds discover something called physical risk.

Private Equity Turns to Heat Detectives as Climate Risks Intensify

For decades, investment models at the largest private equity funds relied on assumptions of relatively stable weather patterns. Now frequent extreme events are creating new threats for their portfolio...

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I’ll admit it, I bought it for the label. #treering

those look like some big storms about to rumble cottage country across the Winnipeg River basin.

Kelton Halbert@stormscale.io · last mo.

Big Canadian supercells today

Currently 85 miles of river drying on New Mexico's Middle Rio Grande. a) That's a lot. b) We literally pay people to go out and look at the river every quarter of a mile (? I think this is the right spacing. ?) to see if the river is dry. What a weird job.

We must be ready for this... but things are changing fast. Shifting hail hazard under global warming and effects on crop hail risk🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Poleward shifts in hail hazard may attenuate yield increases from similar shifts in crop regions under climate change.

I'm saddened by the news that Rex Adams has passed. Rex was always so unfailingly positive and generous and had an outsized influence on generations of tree-ring scientists. I will always be grateful for him treating my mom like a VIP when she visited me at LTRR. A "fun guy", always and forever.

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

Love exploring climate change in the geological record? Want to teach about climate change with fabulous undergraduates? Yearning to advance your paleoclimate research in a supportive, scholarship-forward environment? Then come work with us at Colgate University! ⚒️🧪❄️🧪🌊🧪 apply.interfolio.com/188708

More on why connecting paleo records to hazard assessment matters, from the recent 2026 VICS conference in St Andrews: adaptresearchwriting.com/2026/06/24/v...

Volcanoes, climate shocks, and the next global systemic-risk trigger: Reporting on the VICS Conference 2026

By Matt Boyd (with Mike Cassidy reporting on the workshop) Photo by Yosh Ginsu on Unsplash TLDR/Summary The 2026 Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society (VICS) Conference brought together the VICS …

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Hey earthquake types - Swiss Re is hiring an entry grad level earthquake catastrophe modeler. Strong science shop if this is your thing:

#hiring #catastrophemodeling #earthquake #reinsurance | Adam Hatzikyriakou

We are hiring! The Cat Perils team at Swiss Re is looking for an enthusiastic Natural Catastrophe Specialist with experience in earthquake modeling. This position is located in Armonk, NY. Do you wan...

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A few folks have asked me about *home* insurance inflation in Alberta, too. It's also ... just ... wow. 😲

Robson Fletcher@robsonfletcher.com · last mo.

New inflation data out today and wow what can you say about these Alberta car insurance rates other than ... wow. 😳