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This is important - Honest Brokers (TM) and their echo chamber will often point to the decreasing global wildfire, but that reflects changing human land use practices. In temperate and boreal forests, climate's role is more clear. See this paper by Cunningham et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Its in the news today, seems timely to reshare this recent article defining and characterizing heat domes across the North America. #heatwave #heatdome

How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse? theconversation.com/how-do-scien...

Here is an updated version of the bubble diagram - Attribution confidence is highest for extreme temperature events but we also have relatively high confidence in attributing other event types including extreme rainfall and drought.

A week late but excited to share @nationalacademies.org report on Attribution of Extreme Events and their Impacts. Had the opportunity to work with amazing colleagues to reflect on the incredible progress in EEA and review the breadth of applications @climate-done.bsky.social @jmarlon.bsky.social

"They get blisters on their feet, their eyes become watery and the hot sand burns their skin and eats up their hair when they are sitting" bbc.com/news/article...

This is a helpful article for anyone in the climate risk space. I especially appreciated the discussion of compounding and cascading risks. "Today’s climate stands apart, distinguished by its torrid global synchrony"

Here is a quick summary: www.pdx.edu/geography/ne...

Examples of extreme heat objects associated with heat domes (left) versus other non-heat dome circulations (right) based on this definition

🥵 Heat domes! What exactly are they? In this timely new paper led by Paul Loikith, we provide a quantitative definition based on circulation and surface temperatures and present their climatology. Figure ⬇️ shows proportion of extreme heat events associated with a heat dome doi.org/10.1016/j.wa...

Last week, lighting from thunderstorms ignited dozens of fires in Central Oregon. These wildfires have continued to burn for several days, scorching hundreds of thousands of acres of land in the region.

On Mon, Jul 20 at 1pm PT, I'll host a live discussion focusing on last week's "lightning bust" wildfire outbreak in PacNW, potential impacts of TS Elida's remnants in CA/PacNW (inc. more lightning), and our rapidly-strengthening El Niño event.

🔖 NASEM (@nationalacademies.org) will release the report on Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Their Impacts on July 16. This field of science has grown rapidly over the past decade. Join the webinar at 1 PM ET to learn about these advances. Registration information below👇

Long-range transport of smoke from late‑June wildfires in North America and Eurasia shows the 2026 boreal fire season is now picking up after a relatively calm start of the year. The #CopernicusAtmosphere is tracking emissions from these fires and others currently burning in southern Europe. More ⬇️

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The thing about solar geoengineering is that there is zero evidence that humankind is currently capable of the sort of global governance needed to deploy it responsibly and ethically, and if it were capable, it probably would not be needed.

Interested in disaster resilience? Register for this talk hosted by the Aspen Global Change Institute here. It is happening tomorrow (Tuesday) at 4 p.m. Mountain Time agci-org.zoom.us/.../WN_G9rJ1....

😢 "the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show."

For example, researchers at @ncar-ucar.bsky.social have developed tools that provide detailed weather guidance to pilots, dispatchers, air traffic controllers, and airport operators, including the wind shear alert system used at airports across the country.