Jonathan Overpeck
@GreatLakesPeck
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Environmental/Climate scientist for 30+ years; NAS Member. Samuel A. Graham Dean, @UMSEAS @UMICH. Tweets my own. Thinking grad school? Join us at @UMSEAS.
Ann Arbor, MI
Joined December 2011
One reason to halt climate change is to stop the increasing toll climate extremes are taking on people and communities in the US and around the globe, and another is to catch the global economic wave that comes with market share - money to be made.
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Not looking any better out west - or US-wide, for that matter. Acidification in action...
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Accelerating (probably) or not (maybe), climate change is wreaking more (costly) havoc. “The persistence of record warmth through 2023, 2024 and now into the first month of 2025 is jarring to say the least,”
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The costs associate with climate change are large and getting larger. “Climate change is real. No president, and no federal agency, has the authority to pretend otherwise.”
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Hate to say it again, but climate change will drive inflation, and here's a piece highlighting how climate change will likely increase food prices. Is burning fossil fuels really worth it?
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Another way to look at current snowpack conditions in the Colorado River and Rio Grande basins. Again, not a pretty picture. Southern California not so great either - no surprise there. This is what climate change looks like.
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Where are we this winter with regard to the Colorado River? You might not want to know - the picture isn't good.
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Rats can squeeze in more litters/year as climates warm, so populations increase faster. “As our cities warm, urbanize and (increase in) density, we create more resources for rats which could result in further increases in numbers,”
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As our climate warms “cold deaths lessen slowly, but heat deaths soar rapidly.” For example, Europe:
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The globe was experiencing record warmth during the recent US cold snap. New evidence: “rising temperatures in the Arctic are weakening weather systems that normally trap the cold around the poles, making winter weather more chaotic.”
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Cool news for EV owners: looks like EV batteries last much longer than previously thought.
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Lesson for us all: Climate warming has been particularly bad in Switzerland, where “a group of farmers turned to the Swiss courts to force the government to do more to act on climate change before their farms become unviable.”
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Lessons from 2024. “On the economic front, …climate change will result in a significant reduction in average incomes by mid-century (in comparison with a baseline with no climate change impacts). And the countries that will be hit the hardest are…”
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Climate change fingerprints all over devastating LA fires. “In particular, the hotter temperatures and a drier atmosphere can be linked to heat-trapping gases that largely come from burning fossil fuels.”
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It’s not hard to understand how climate change and drought can stoke inflation as food supply suffers. Here’s and ongoing example.
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Yet more research confirmation that wildfire smoke isn’t just bad for heart & lungs, but ups the odds of dementia as well.
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Note - "Over 64% of manufacturing and supply chain investment supporting the emerging [off-shore wind] industry is in Republican-led districts, per new data."
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