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Understanding climate change will help Texas graduates manage climate risks and identify new business opportunities.Their words
Understanding climate change will help Texas graduates manage those risks and identify new business opportunities for solving the problems that climate change creates.
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14 September
From one piece The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Record 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Climate change made the July 2025 Texas flooding more intense than it otherwise would have beenTheir words
Given that we can connect increases in PWAT to global warming, we can confidently conclude that climate change made this rain event more intense than it otherwise would have been.
The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Recordtheclimatebrink.com
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Rising atmospheric water vapor raises the ceiling on how extreme rainfall events can becomeTheir words
So the increase in PWAT is not just a weirdo statistic. It is a statement about the ceiling on the worst rain events we can face.
The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Recordtheclimatebrink.com
4 September
From one piece The Worst Case Is Still on the Table 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Keeping the RCP8.5/SSP5-8.5 runs as a plausible upper limit is particularly important given that recent research has emphasized the possibility that models are underestimating future warming.
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In fact, conventional risk management tells us that, when consequences are severe, low-probability extreme outcomes can determine the response.
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the temperatures produced under RCP8.5/SSP5-8.5 are a reasonable upper bound on what the future climate might be.
17 August
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The catch is that the future world that has been warmed by greenhouse gases and a present-day world that has been temporarily warmed by El Niño can have the same global-average temperature while having significant differences in the impacts of this warming.
12 August
From one piece ♫ Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ♫ 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This should turbocharge our resolve to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
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You read that right: The cost of climate-worsened wildfire smoke alone is larger than what earlier studies said every other estimated cost of climate change would be, combined.
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Climate change is absolutely making these wildfires more severe - there should be zero doubt about that.
3 August
From one piece Fixing one of climate’s worst plots 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Irrigation cools the surface, and the expansion of agriculture and irrigation in the central U.S. in the middle of the 20th century played a key role in why heatwaves were low in the middle of the 20th century
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The 1930s U.S. Dust Bowl heat wave was caused by destructive farming practices rather than fossil-fuel emissions.Their words
The relevant human activity was not fossil-fuel combustion but bad farming practices that contributed to the Dust Bowl.
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The post-1970s global increase in heatwave frequency is caused by greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.Their words
This differs from the Dust Bowl because it is a global signal, occurring essentially everywhere. This is almost certainly due to greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
29 July
From one piece Wildfires are remaking the world 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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At this point, we've missed the boat at completely preventing climate change. Our atmosphere has been fundamentally altered by carbon pollution.
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The transformation to come will be decidedly nonlinear, meaning it will not occur as small impacts over many years but rather a series of infrequent, huge events of enormous destructive power.
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Cooling or warming global temperature by around 10°F would produce an unrecognizably different planet.Their words
If you cool the Earth by 10 degrees Fahrenheit, you end up with a completely different planet.
27 July
From one piece Raw Data, Wrong Answers 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If you do not adjust the data for known biases, you're getting the wrong answer.
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the opposition to adjustments is entirely instrumental: climate skeptics like the results that the raw, biased data give them for the US, and they don't like the results that bias-corrected data give them.
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the heat of the 1930s was a regional event, due to a combination of unforced variability and human activities (poor agricultural land management).
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