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Does living through extreme weather make people act on climate?
A new Registered Report in Nature Climate Change linked 1,451 Americans' real carbon choices to the extreme weather recorded in their counties. Party affiliation shaped what people paid attention to; the weather itself did not, unless people read it as climate change.
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Will the Atlantic overturning tip, and how fast would we feel it?
A check-up on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation based on two new papers: what the observations show, why the models are probably too optimistic, why the speed of emissions matters, and whether a collapse would be sudden or slow.
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From chatbot to coworker: three years of LLMs in hydrology
Re-reading a 2023 editorial on ChatGPT in hydrology next to two new papers and a book on AI: what LLMs could not do then, what agents can do now, and why most research has not switched yet.
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Approaching 1.5°C from above
What UNEP's Limiting Overshoot report says about exceeding 1.5°C, why every five years of delay costs about 0.1°C, and what a temperature that rises and then falls means for water engineering.