Corpus Christi has gotten about a foot less rain than usual the past year, so “the city is resorting to a millennia-old tactic: praying for rain.”
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Corpus Christi has gotten about a foot less rain than usual the past year, so “the city is resorting to a millennia-old tactic: praying for rain.”
Precip overall was quite sparse this winter: it was the fifth driest in U.S. records going back to 1895. More here:
yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/we-j...
From these maps alone, I'm struggling to see how this month *doesn't* end up as the warmest March in contiguous U.S. history, perhaps by a long shot.
400 million barrels of oil = approximately 172 million tonnes of CO2*
* Using 0.43 tonnes CO2/barrel (US EPA www.epa.gov/energy/green...)
the warmest it's ever been in March in Fort Collins is 81°F. at this point, it seems like the question is not whether this will be broken next week, but how many times and by how much. 🫠#cowx
Increasing energy dependence on a volatile, globally traded commodity delivers neither energy security nor affordability. Hope that helps. 🫡
Who's ready to make another run at record global temperatures? 🔥
Canada is one of the top ten CO2 emitters in the world. But that's not the whole story. Canada exports fossil fuels to other countries, increasing their CO2 emissions. Alberta is intent on building more pipelines and BC is intent on shipping LNG. It is past time to #keepitintheground.
Dec-Feb was the 2nd warmest winter for the Contiguous U.S. according to ERA5 Reanalysis. 31% of the Contiguous U.S. had their warmest winter on record (since 1940), 53% were much above average, and only 1% was much below average (both compared to the 1991-2020 baseline).
New study from the Fraunhofer Institute based on nearly 1M PHEVs in Europe concludes that they use much more fossil fuels than advertised. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 a 🧵 electrek.co/2026/02/19/b...
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Two years ago, Ethiopia did something no other rich country has yet. It banned the import of new fossil fuel cars. In that time, the country went from less than 1% of its vehicles being electric to more than 6% — higher than the global average. Read our feature:
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
A green transition deal was worked out in Spain...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A mountain-top pavement comprised of glacier-polished brownish cross sections of cabbage-like concentric fossilized blue-green algae.
If you take a breath today remember to be grateful to the bottom of your lungs to these guys that made it all possible. Ice-polished ~1.5 billion yo Proterozoic fossil cyanobacterial stromatolite pavement, at Grinnell Glacier, Glacier NP, MT. Oldest fossils I have ever seen!
C'mon, @theglobeandmail.com. Are you kidding us with this nonsense?
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
“Where the GOP learned to lie as a matter of course is an interesting question, and I’m afraid I’ve had a front row seat. I think it’s the climate fight, more than anything else, that taught them to regard reality as optional.”
Read @billmckibben.bsky.social on how we reached this moment
I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
So far, the Trump administration has filed about 80% fewer court cases against polluters than during the president's first term.
“There’s a tendency in certain government departments to trivialise the impacts of #climate on the economy so as to avoid making difficult choices today. This is a big problem – the consequences of delay are catastrophic.” - Mark Campanale, CEO of @carbontracker.bsky.social
Figure of Western U.S. snow cover area from 2001 to 2026 illustrates a staggering decline in current coverage compared to historical norms. While the historical data for mid-January typically clusters between 400,000 and 600,000 square miles, the line for 2026 sits in unprecedented territory at the very bottom of the graph. On January 15, 2026, the snow cover area plummeted to a record low of 142,700 square miles—less than one-third of the median and the lowest point in the entire 25-year satellite record. This visual gap emphasizes a severe "snow drought," with the 2026 data point trailing significantly behind even the previous record lows, highlighting an extreme and alarming anomaly in winter precipitation.
The western U.S. faces its lowest snowpack on record despite average or above-average rainfall. Warmer temperatures mean more precipitation falls as rain rather than snow, and will worsen droughts in areas like the Pacific Northwest and the Colorado River Basin.
science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
How cold has this winter been so far? The first 2/3 of winter 2025-26 is the 7th warmest on record for the Contiguous U.S.
Flaring Hell 🔥
LNG Canada has been flaring up to 15 times more gas than expected, Vancouver Sun
share.google/GsdDR3S23vwT...
Oh! “A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming.”
#HeadsUp La Niña is Dissolving Rapidly 🔥
La Niña is Dissolving Rapidly, Marking the Start of a Major Atmospheric and Oceanic Shift for 2026 » Severe Weather Europe share.google/gP8VXKYfnR11...
One molecule of a CFC could have the same warming effect as up to 10,000 molecules of carbon dioxide
www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/s...
ICYMI: “New research shows less snowpack in certain regions of Canada can have wide-ranging effects on everything from farms and wildlife to the broader economy.” www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-... - CTV News
#Canada #CanadianRockies #Environment #GreatLakes #Hydrology #Okanagan #Quebec #SnowDrought
"The Italian gov on Mon declared a state of emergency for southern regions battered by Cyclone Harry last week. The powerful storm brought relentless rain & waves as high as 9m...[destroying] roads &coastal defences, sweeping away beach resorts. The cost of the damage is estimated at more than €1bn"
Chaetoceros socialis - a colonial diatom- imaged with the lisst holo2, an underwater camera that takes 3D images of microscopic particles. The squiggly chains of individual cells grow together in balls that are actually visible by eye if you hold the seawater up to the light. Images are black and white because a laser is used to take 3D images.
The lisst -holo2, an underwater camera that takes 3D images of microscopic particles getting ready for deployment in the land aboard the RV Sikuliaq
The CTD rosette (the workhorse of oceanography) getting ready to be sent to the bottom of the ocean. The lisst holo2 is mounted on the bottom of the rosette and saves 1 image/second as the rosette descends
To study the distribution of phytoplankton🦠 and marine snow❄️, we are sending a holographic camera down on the CTD rosette to a take a 3D image every second. Then we can reconstruct bio volume and export! The most common phytoplankton on this cruise has been Chaetoceros socialis (⬇️) #oceanography 🇦🇶🐧🌊
"The results also indicate that current #climate models underestimate the magnitude of the observed changes. This is caused most likely by a too simplistic representation of deep mixing processes in the ocean in numerical models"
#AMOC
#FasterThanExpected
We escaped the ice and have been science hard for 2 days - four full stations and a big factorial experiment setup! Very tired but very happy to be working. We caught Antarctic krill at one station, and lots of salps at all stations. Love the Green krill guts full of phytoplankton! #oceanography 🌊🇦🇶🦐
