Hurricane Melissa which is en route to decimate Haiti and Jamaica rapidly intensified to category 4 storm. Rapid intensification is a hallmark of climate change, but that category is only a measure of its wind speed. It is also expected to bring up to 40 inches of rain

DOGE/MAGA changes to weather forecasting don’t get much attention, but coming changes will be devastating. The same areas that have lost grocery stores, local news, and USPS offices may now lose storm and emergency forecasts. Private enterprise DGAF if you can’t pay. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/w...

Green infrastructure pays off! The Willamette River used to receive sewage overflows as much as 50 times in a year but has had another year without any overflow at all.
www.opb.org/article/2025...

This is President Carter in the Three Mile Island control room during a nuclear meltdown

His examination of the system controls isn’t posed — he had been a top Navy nuclear engineer and had repaired a Canadian reactor after a partial meltdown, after which his body was radioactive for months.

Whatever anyone believes about climate change, the free market knows climate volatility is increasing. Climate migration has already begun.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Put solar and batteries on all the Post Offices. Have it serve as a community resilience hub during and after extreme events. Have it broadcast free neighborhood wifi. Every month release a new stamp with a cool animal on it.

what @annehidalgo.bsky.social and the city of paris have done for public health and quality of life by taming the auto and prioritizing life and sustainable mobility - over autocentricity - should be replicated by mayors who actually care about these issues

www.paris.fr/pages/etat-d...

Flood protection, safe water, indigenous rights, salmon habitat, earthquake-readiness, recreational access, economic improvement… When you set aside politics and focus on goals, most people who depend on rivers want the same things.

www.oregonmetro.gov/news/metro-c...

This is how to do it, kids: Home insurance is now a climate story. Put it on the front, and put "climate change" at the top. Especially now that deniers will control the federal and state government.

www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/hom...

This is a big deal. California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act is conservative, with 25 years to come into compliance and local management -- unless they fail. If the Supreme Court undercuts the state's backstop power, it won't change actual hydrology, setting up the area for a crash.

“7 years ago” doesn’t change the psychology of someone is such a repeatedly abusive misogynist that his own mother called him out. How is Hegseth even being talked about at this point?

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

Oregon Coast Waterspout!
NWS: the bomb cyclone “is still capable of producing waterspouts (and, if comes onshore, will be a tornado)… Tornado Warning is in effect for that area until 4:30 pm today.”
(Photo: Ian Reed, 3:20 pm)

#water #watersky #climate #climatesky

If you can’t imagine horrors you can’t prevent them.