There is a question hiding underneath almost every conversation about artificial intelligence and the climate, and almost nobody asks it out loud. Where does the computing happen? When you type a prompt, that request usually travels away from you. It leaves your laptop, crosses a network, lands in a building you will never see, gets... Continue Reading →
What I Read This Morning: 14 Climate and Science Stories Worth Connecting
August 30, 2026 Some mornings I can move from one science story to the next and quickly realize that the most interesting part is not any single headline. It is the connections between them. This morning's reading moved from groundwater in Africa and Brazil to urban trees, extreme heat, wildfire smoke, ocean circulation, glacier hazards,... Continue Reading →
The Ballot Is Our Voice
Mail-In Voting, Democratic Guardrails, Ordinary Voters — and Why This Matters to the Climate Emergency I will begin with something simple: I am not a political or voting-law expert. I am learning. And today I found myself trying to understand a Supreme Court decision involving mail-in voting that, at first, sounded technical and distant. The... Continue Reading →
West Nile Virus Is Active in the United States: Protect People and Pets Now
...moved here from cCc. PUBLIC HEALTH ANNOUNCEMENT West Nile Virus Is Active in the United States: Protect People and Pets Now A proactive and reactive mosquito-safety notice for families, caregivers, pet guardians, and communities Published: August 20, 2026 The message is simple: do not panic, and do not dismiss the risk. West Nile virus is... Continue Reading →
The Cost of Coming Late: A Risk Assessment of a Four-Year Delay in the Net-Zero Transition
Before the government classifies the people working toward a sustainable, non-carbon world as "nut jobs," please read this. It reports what happens to a country that delays viable climate action for four years. And yes I have included a version for 7th grade reading level following this one... The Cost of Coming Late: A Risk... Continue Reading →
Global Climate Nudge: The Emergency Has No Borders
August 18, 2026 Climate news is usually delivered to us as a local story. A wildfire in one country. A flood somewhere else. A drought thousands of miles away. A failed harvest. A water shortage. An unusually hot ocean. Reported separately, they can look like unrelated events. Viewed globally, however, another picture begins to emerge.... Continue Reading →
A Record-Breaking El Niño Is Almost Certain
A Record-Breaking El Niño Is Almost Certain Forecasters are converging on a striking consensus: the 2026-2027 El Niño is on track to become the strongest ever recorded. An analysis by Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth and an author of the IPCC's Seventh Assessment Report, now assigns a 90% probability that this event... Continue Reading →
A Heads-Up on Posting, Study Focus, and Climate Tribe Social
A note to followers and the public I want to share a brief but important update about my posting schedule, the direction of my study work, and the continued preparation of Climate Tribe Social. I am not going to stop posting to ClimateChangeCommunity.com or the other sites under the Climate Change Community umbrella. That work... Continue Reading →
In an Age of Information, Context Is Intelligence
In an Age of Information, Context Is Intelligence Why understanding — not data — is the real skill of our time We are living through the most information-rich moment in human history. About twenty years ago, the entire world produced roughly two zettabytes of data in a year. Today we produce well over a hundred... Continue Reading →
CLIMATE & ECOLOGICAL EMERGENCY TIMES
We created a mock front page styled newspaper cover, with a hopeful, breakthrough-focused tone and subtle realism to help give us a little hope towards the future. CLIMATE & ECOLOGICAL EMERGENCY TIMES“Accountability. Restoration. Future.” June 11, 2032 | Global Edition GLOBAL COURT RULES AGAINST FOSSIL FUEL GIANTSHistoric verdict mandates $9.3 trillion in reparations for climate... Continue Reading →
When the Helper Becomes the Hole
When the Helper Becomes the Hole Two Wake-Up Calls About AI Agents — and How We Use Them Anyway A Climate Tribe heads-up on digital resiliency There are weeks when the news lands like a cold splash of water. This was one of them. Two stories crossed my desk back to back, and both of... Continue Reading →