Fantastic job alert for an early-career journalist: work as an editorial assistant with me and Masha Gessen. nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NYT/jo...
*Just in*: El Niño is likely to dissipate within the next month, followed by the arrival of La Niña by late summer/early fall. This has huge repercussions for the Atlantic Hurricane Season. www.axios.com/2024/05/09/e...
La Niña is associated with above average hurricane activity in the tropical Atlantic.
Interesting study looking at a global trend toward hurricanes that intensify more rapidly and extensively near the coast due to human-caused climate change. www.axios.com/2024/05/07/h...
The past few years are full of examples of hurricanes exploding in intensity.
Dangerous regional tornado outbreak increasingly likely Monday in NE, KS, Okla., with threat moving east into Weds. NWS has designated tmrw as a "moderate risk" day, level 4 out of 5 on their scale. Today is a prep day, folks. www.axios.com/2024/05/05/s...
This event follows an unusually active April, and will affect many of the same states hit hard last month.
Janos Pasztor, a veteran climate diplomat and expert in geoengineering governance, is joining a solar radiation management firm as an independent consultant. This says a lot about how quickly, and haphazardly, this field is evolving. www.axios.com/2024/05/03/g...
The race is on to govern the technology before it is put to use.
No, generative AI won't overwhelm the US grid. But it presents major challenges when combined with re-shoring manufacturing, EVs, home/biz electrification and more. Writing this piece taught me a lot re: how complex this situation is, and how concerned utilities are. www.axios.com/2024/04/26/a...
Generative AI, plus growing manufacturing and electric vehicles, is spiking U.S. power demand.
"People need to be aware that all is not all lost," even though this is likely to be the most widespread global coral bleaching event on record: NOAA scientist. www.axios.com/2024/04/16/g...
Many corals may be harmed, but it "is not a death sentence," experts say.
Neat animation showing the cool water anomalies ready to upwell to the surface starting in the eastern tropical Pacific, as El Niño is poised to weaken & give way to La Niña. Via climate.gov.
