The Climate Brink The Choice is Ours: Climate Disaster or a Sustainable Future
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The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Record
by Andrew Dessler on September 14, 2026
More water vapor means more rocket fuel for extreme rain — so this record is not good news
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The Worst Case Is Still on the Table
by Andrew Dessler on September 4, 2026
Why removing RCP8.5 from the National Climate Assessment would be a serious mistake
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What we can and cannot say about climate change and the Nepal disaster
by Zeke Hausfather on August 28, 2026
Formal attribution is premature, but the collapse happened on a rapidly warming mountain in a valley losing its ice
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Is this El Niño a glimpse of a future, hotter Earth?
by Andrew Dessler on August 17, 2026
There are important differences between long-term global warming and El Niño warming
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♫ Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ♫
by Andrew Dessler on August 12, 2026
and your lungs, your blood stream, your brain, just about everywhere
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The real energy use of agentic AI
by Zeke Hausfather on August 5, 2026
Agents use about 600x more energy than simple AI prompts
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Fixing one of climate’s worst plots
by Andrew Dessler on August 3, 2026
the 1930s were hot over the U.S. Midwest, but not that hot
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Why Hansen may end up being right about 2026
by Zeke Hausfather on July 30, 2026
Whether 2026 sets a new record is increasingly likely to be a spit decision between different groups
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Wildfires are remaking the world
by Andrew Dessler on July 29, 2026
With great sorrow, we watch as the Earth is rebuilt into a different, warmer planet.
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Raw Data, Wrong Answers
by Andrew Dessler on July 27, 2026
What happens to the 1930s temperature record after correcting measurement biases and station coverage
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Hot days, cold thermometers
by Zeke Hausfather on July 22, 2026
Why a viral graph on US days above 95F is misleading and overstates regional warmth
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Canada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest management
by Zeke Hausfather on July 17, 2026
Higher fire season temperatures are strongly correlated with increased area burned
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The Strongest El Niño Ever
by Zeke Hausfather on July 13, 2026
With all the July runs in, dynamical models give a ~90% chance of a record-setting event
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What drove the early 20th century warming?
by Zeke Hausfather on July 9, 2026
Human activity, natural forcings, and internal variability explain the global temperature rise between 1900 and 1945
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Deadly heat wave in France shows the future of climate risk
by Andrew Dessler on July 7, 2026
Perhaps the victory lap for getting rid of RCP8.5 was premature
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Where do heat waves come from?
by Andrew Dessler on July 4, 2026
Sunny days aren't all they're cracked up to be
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How climate change influences extreme weather
by Andrew Dessler on June 30, 2026
How science shows us how warming makes heat waves, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires more likely or more severe — and why this science is becoming a major public-policy battleground.
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The Merchants of Doubt are coming for Extreme Event Attribution science
by Andrew Dessler on June 16, 2026
Doubt is still their product
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Plateauing CO2 emissions have slowed atmospheric growth
by Zeke Hausfather on June 9, 2026
CO2 concentrations have continued to increase – but more slowly than it otherwise would have
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How Science Works
by Andrew Dessler on June 2, 2026
a talk I gave on the Climate and Weather Livestream






