As NOAA forecasts winter, Super El Niño brings deadly injustice
By Sophie Naimi ·
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California’s High Tides Set Records This Week. They’re Going to Get Higher
Record flooding from San Francisco to Newport Beach exposes the failure of coastal defenses, proving that municipal band-aids cannot stop the physics of a warming ocean.
By Sophie Naimi ·
Gavin Newsom and San Jose leave California to drown in storms
As a historic El Niño brings record storms and heat to California, state and local leaders cut climate programs and rely on manual floodgates.
By Imani Sutton ·
Florida Power & Light will bill customers for its fragile grid
After Hurricane Isaias wrecked the Gulf Coast, Florida Power & Light and local drainage districts will pass the cost of their neglected infrastructure straight to the people who suffered.
By Imani Sutton ·
California faces an extraordinary winter as El Niño strengthens
Climate models project extraordinary rainfall across California as El Niño strengthens, leaving emergency response agencies unready for compound disasters unless governments immediately fund structural reinforcements.
By Daniel Okafor ·
NOAA's super El Niño proves fossil fuels are cooking the planet
As a record-breaking El Niño discharges massive ocean heat, fossil fuel interests are weaponizing the temporary spike to mask the permanent trajectory of climate breakdown.
By Sophie Naimi ·
Hurricane Nolo stalls near Hawaii, testing soaked ground
Hurricane Nolo stalls south of Hawaii's Big Island, unleashing heavy rain on saturated soil and threatening infrastructure already weakened by Hurricane Lala.
By Daniel Okafor ·
Hurricane Polo shows category numbers mislead Mexico's coast
Hurricane Polo's explosive intensification over warm Pacific waters threatens Mexico and California, proving that storm downgrades offer a false sense of security.
By Daniel Okafor ·
Hurricane Polo brings explosive Category 5 force to Mexico
Hurricane Polo rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm off Mexico, threatening Baja California Sur with torrential rain and demanding strict civil defense response.
By Daniel Okafor ·
Hurricane Polo exposes the deadly cost of fossil fuel delay
As Category 5 winds tear off Mexico's coast, the physics of warming oceans expose the deadly cost of fossil fuel delay for the global south.
By Sophie Naimi ·
Hurricane Polo shows how Mexico pays the price of fossil fuels
As Hurricane Polo menaces Mexico after rapid intensification over superheated oceans, the global south is once again forced to pay the devastating physical price for fossil fuel profits.
By Sophie Naimi ·
Hurricane Polo hits Category 5 as fossil fuel profits burn Mexico
As Hurricane Polo explodes into a Category 5 monster fueled by record ocean heat, Mexico deploys the military while fossil fuel giants profit from the climate wreckage.
By Sophie Naimi ·
Copernicus records hottest August, and the door slams shut
In my years in the Foreign Service, I learned that the most dangerous thing a government can do is mistake a physical reality for a diplomatic negotiation.
By Tom Beckwith ·
OMM warns of El Niño, but the world ignores the structural risk
António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the Organização das Nações Unidas, describes the current El Niño as being "supersized" before our eyes.
By Klaus Berger ·
El Niño predictions from NOAA ignore local payroll ledgers
The news cycle loves a grand pronouncement, and right now, it’s all about temperature.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
Northern Lights Forecast Tonight: Up To 9 States Could See The Aurora Borealis
The world of finance and the world of astrophysics operate on fundamentally different principles—one governed by quarterly reports and supply chain bottlenecks, the other by…
By Bram de Vries ·