Zillow’s climate score rollback is a wake-up call: build open, future‑conditions federal flood maps -- gold‑standard, trustworthy data for building codes, mortgages, and our future. Column today: open.substack.com/pub/susanpcr...

A reminder, in light of that NYT story today, about skill and spread across climate analytics providers:

Getting good climate info in the hands of individuals would be highly valuable. Just not convinced we're actually there yet.

The discussion on accuracy here is somewhat moot. I find it most intriguing that this information does seem to go into and does impact individual customer decision making and even house sale price (paper here www.nber.org/papers/w33119).
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

New text @cop30brazil.bsky.social provides a glimpse of where #COP30 might land.

Some reflections on references to science and evidence. /1

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Was there any coverage of the recent record warmth in both the Arctic and Antarctic? Multiple global datasets now confirm these records, and I think it's really quite striking.

Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.

Absolutely fantastic study comparing anonymized outputs of climate analytics models.

Everyone loves to bag on flood (rightly so), but can we talk about how the spread here is "30mph breeze to Cat 5 hurricane" www.fca.org.uk/publication/... HT @ruarirhodes.bsky.social

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out.

Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

This resonates a lot with me. The tipping points topic is one of the most popular ones for private sector, but is largely irrelevant for their short- to medium-term (20 yrs is typically way too far out!) decision making process around climate resilience and adaptation www.nature.com/articles/s41...