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Laura Routh@laurarouth.bsky.social |
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On break from writing about climate change at www.thestatesclimateproject.com/ and elsewhere
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Zeke Hausfather
@hausfath.bsky.social
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Global temperatures were extremely hot in June 2024, at just over 1.5C, beating June 2023's previous record-setting temperatures by 0.14C and coming in around 0.4C warmer than 2016 (the last major El Nino event). Now 2024 is very likely to beat 2023 as the warmest year on record
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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And I’m super concerned about how these extended heat domes are going to affect people’s finances. My upcoming PG&E bill is projected to be $500+. Older building. No central air. Two window units (upstairs) and a portable ac downstairs (set at 82).
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John Schwartz
@jswatz.bsky.social
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"at this point, anywhere from Mexico to Texas to Louisiana should be paying extremely close attention and taking preliminary precautions" and "it could be a strong hurricane again by its final landfall somewhere along the Gulf coast." @bmcnoldy.bsky.social
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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Can’t seem to catch up on my dishes! Distracted by the news.
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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Also 4) Intensify faster 5) Move more slowly = Be much more dangerous, on average
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luke the myoclonic jerk
@coolhand.bsky.social
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They just come straight out and say it and nobody listens
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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Good 🧶🪡🧵 on hurricanes and climate…
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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I’ve been in a similar situation where it’s been impossible to continue with my project. But hings are easing up.
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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I so get this.
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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“It’s not just that sea surface temperatures are running historically hot—that heat also stretches hundreds of meters deep beneath the surface.” @wxdam.com www.wired.com/story/hurric...
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Richard Waite
@waiterich.bsky.social
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This excellent thread is a data-driven summary of the exact reasons I stopped posting on Twitter, in addition to its owner's aggressive promotion of hate speech, trolling, and misinformation. I still hope Bluesky grows to resemble a community like the old Twitter in the Before Times.
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Jeff Berardelli
@weatherprof.bsky.social
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There’s been a lot of research on hurricanes and hotter water. One consistent finding in the Atlantic is that a greater proportion of storms become majors. The chance that a run-of-the-mill hurricane becomes a major (cat 3,4,5) is now 2X greater than it was a few decades ago.
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Daniel Swain
@weatherwest.bsky.social
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Pop-up livestream: today (07/02/2024) @ 5:30pm PT to discuss unfolding (and likely historic) heatwave across California and Oregon, as well as rapidly escalating wildfire risk. I may have additional such pop-ups later this week. #CAwx #CAfire ekD3uHwww'>xs'>www.youtube.com/live...
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Daniel Swain
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Many fires erupting across northern CAtoday amid Red Flag conditions at the beginning of what may become a historically severe/long heatwave. Most immediately threatening fire appears to be #ThompsonFire near Oroville. Mandatory evacs now for portions of Oroville proper. #CAwx
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Laura Routh
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“It is ironic, at best, that these sharp new limits on executive agencies’ ability to regulate carbon pollution came from the same Court that vastly expanded the president’s immunity under the law.” @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
SCOTUS & the art of hobbling clean energy heatmap.news/climate/supr...
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Laura Routh
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“As the Ford-Nixon pardon made crystal clear, 50 years ago, the country understood well that ex-presidents could face trial for their crimes in office. That understanding endured until this week.” Much-appreciated historical context from @kateshaw.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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Laura Routh
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“By definition, the president was bound by law. He was, first and foremost, not a king. He was a servant of the public, and the framers believed he, like any other servant, was subject to criminal prosecution if he broke the law.” This piece by @jbouie.bsky.social 💯% www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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I keep telling people that solving the constitutional crisis caused by the Supreme Court looks a lot more like changing the locks on the building than it does passing the perfect new law to reign them in.
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Filipe Campante
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Even more convinced that people are missing the most important point. This is not “an expansion of presidential authority”, it’s the Court aligning itself with a political project and faction. It’s immunity for some and not for others, depending only on the Court’s interpretation.
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Katharine Hayhoe
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This is the exact same area that was devastated by two wildfires less than two weeks ago. Wildfire makes areas more vulnerable to landslides, and these types of compound whiplash events are becoming more common thanks to, you guessed it, climate change.
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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…someone who is frustrated today because he’s run out of ideas for creating/coding a game. So now he’s coming up with and recording riffs on his electric guitar.
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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Reminds me of someone…
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David Ho
@davidho.bsky.social
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25-year old Michele Gazzoli abandoned the Tour de France due to heatstroke. Welcome to our climate changed future. #TDF2024
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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“The long duration of this event, plus the especially notable/widespread overnight warmth, will amplify both human heat stress and wildfire risk … beyond what a heatwave with peak temperatures in this range might otherwise suggest … .” @weatherwest.bsky.social weatherwest.com/archives/41590
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Jeff Berardelli
@weatherprof.bsky.social
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If everything were to line up perfectly, meaning no shear, no dry air, perfect structure, then this is the potential maximum winds that can be achieved by #Beryl
So far, Beryl has had a very conducive environment, but by midweek shear will increase in the Central Caribbean
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Brian McNoldy
@bmcnoldy.bsky.social
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#Beryl rapidly intensifies to become unprecedented #Category4 hurricane in June: bmcnoldy.blogspot.com/2024/06/bery...
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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Dengue stats:
1/4 cases: symptomatic
~5% of those “will progress to so-called severe dengue”
“Severe dengue has a mortality rate of up to 5 percent in people whose symptoms are treated. Left untreated, however, the mortality rate is 15 percent.” www.nytimes.com/article/what...
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Ketan Joshi
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Meanwhile in Norway: 'severe, crippling fossil fuel induced climate change is improving our tourism industry yaayyyyyyy'
www.thelocal.no/20240624/why...
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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The whole 🧵🪡🧶
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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“There is no precedent for a storm to intensify this quickly, nor reach this strength, in this part of the ocean during the month of June. Records date to 1851.” wapo.st/4cL8lk3
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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“Public health officials are bracing for the virus to crop up in more temperate regions, including the southernmost portions of the United States.” (gift link) wapo.st/3zpmNj9
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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“The locations may vary, but the trend is now familiar: Heat sets in early in the warm season, builds upon itself, causes drought and fires, then relents once the monsoon or cool season arrives.” @ianlivingston.bsky.social wapo.st/4braKz2
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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Gotta get you know who on here to share his! He writes poetry a lot!
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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Beautiful text!
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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😬I was regretting not wearing a mask last week while sitting in a meeting in Woodland with about 20 other people, all of them strangers.
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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It’s terrifying for parents, but I’ve learned to just keep showing up—finding resources and supporting with unconditional love—while being aware that that still might not be enough.
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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Sounds like the job was accomplished with few to no curse words. Am I right? That’s quite a feat!
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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You’re welcome!
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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There’s a link to it in the story (gift link). I haven’t checked it out yet but plan to do so once I get some more chores done. Reading is my reward for doing them!
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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“Ms. Lunz Trujillo excoriated the book [White Rural Rage] in an opinion piece for Newsweek as ‘a prime example of how intellectuals sow distrust by villainizing’ people unlike them.”
The links to additional stories on this topic will keep me busy today. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/29/b...
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Gavin Schmidt
@climateofgavin.bsky.social
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This is quite poor, and morally vapid. This report essentially claims there are no values underlying a school of sustainability (!!!) that would preclude acceptance of money from effectively any source (regardless how unaligned the corporate donor's values are with the mission of the school).
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Daniel Swain
@weatherwest.bsky.social
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New in International Journal of Wildland Fire:"Future fire events are likely to be worse than #climate projections indicate" (M. Peace & L. McCaw). Discussion includes increased fire-atmosphere coupling, pyroconvection, & nonlinear vegetation response. www.publish.csiro.au...
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Jeff Berardelli
@weatherprof.bsky.social
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Tropical Depression 2 has formed, soon to be #Beryl. It will likely become a hurricane and hit the Lesser Antilles Monday. As it stands right now, it will probably continue moving westward towards the Yucatán/ Central America due to a heat dome over Florida & SE protecting us. That could change.
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Dave Levitan
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The brown areas are already under an excessive heat watch, per weather.gov. Do you now how many freaking people work outside growing our food in this specific part of the country.
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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Yes, it’s become my motto! Annoys the heck out of some my family members…
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Martha Crawford
@shrinkthinks.bsky.social
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Here is what I am interested in: Identifying the gestures that might heal and transform us whether we heal ourselves and each other in time to pull out of the worst-case scenarios, that are ALSO the very same gestures that we will need from each other if we must face the worst in its varied forms
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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It applies when caring for someone with a serious mental condition, like I’m currently doing, and also when dealing with the climate emergency. All else feels like chatter.
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Laura Routh
@laurarouth.bsky.social
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Right now, my weather app says it will be 115 degrees on July 7. The last time that happened we lost power because the extreme temperatures damaged our utility’s electrical equipment. Please, dear heat and power company gods, not this time!🤞😱🙏
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Kelly Hereid
@kellyhereid.bsky.social
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In light of Chevron, let's have a look at the level at which ELI pitches "let's educate judges with enough basic climate information to be able to effectively rule on cases." What is the scientific method CO2 is a greenhouse gas Not everywhere experiences climate change the same way Grand.
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