I don’t think FIRO alone can be claimed, since it’s only implemented in Lake Mendocino AFAIK as of 2026 (mavensnotebook.com/2025/10/23/s...)
We’re in good shape b/c we had a historically wet year in 2023 followed by 2 average ish years
It is important to note that this is snow depth, not water equivalent. Snow becomes more compact over time and after being rained on. Water equivalent is really what we care about
This is not accurate reporting There were whiteout conditions until 4pm on Thursday (I live nearby). And just because it stops snowing does not mean there is no avalanche hazard. The high danger persisted through Friday morning
www.sierraavalanchecenter.org/forecasts/av...
someone should be working on like, theory of satire and the rise of facism. it's impossible to satirize something that's 10x steps ahead of you in terms of being absurd. there's no rhetorical foothold to stand on to really needle at Trumpism
For reference — all of the dams on the CO river, I including the Hoover dam, generate about 4.5 GW.
Such a travesty. It would be great to put together the number on how much public universities had saved in tax $$$ (from grants) by being able to use NCAR computers vs., say, private cloud compute. The # would be very large. And that’s to say nothing of the ROI on research benefits
Ezra Klein has a chapter about this in abundance IIRC
What is the evidence of the utility scale solar “messing with hydrology” exactly?
What is the evidence of the utility scale solar “messing with hydrology” exactly?
possibly not a dad movie, but I would argue that the best "Dad Hat" in all of cinema is worn by Stanley Tucci in the Pelican Brief
Someone ask him what he thinks about $6000 a month in candles
The genius of ai was to simply increase the # of tiny wizards inside the computer
it would be fascinating/disturbing to make a venn-diagram of the web-spaces that leading figures in the right-wing movement have traversed (Richard Hanania's involvment on Nazi forums for instance) v.s. right-wing committers of mass violence. there would be a lot of overlap.
@pbsnews.org must drop David Brooks from the newshour. I won't pull up the clip but he has commented on the Epstein story on air w/o recusing himself, and also claimed (I'm paraphrasing) that it's a non issue
#cawx
% of Median Snow Water Equivalent (left) vs. % of Median Acc. Precipitation across the WUS (right) for Jan 30, 2026. Much of the low snowpack is attributed to high temps (rain rather than snow) as opposed to purely precip. drought.
Not to nitpick but I don’t think the literature says sublimation is the main reason — this happens in non snow dominated regions too. Increased fraction of ET (of soil moisture) is a large factor. Also reduced snow albedo feedback as snow declines (increasing radiative energy avail for ET)
You have to consider order of magnitude. CO2 concentration is (as of now) is about 420 ppm. CH4 is about 2 ppm in the atm. Not nothing, but still a small source compared to fossil fuel combustion
Gotcha. Would be interesting to see if the *runoff efficiency* (total precipitation relative to streamflow) is also declining over time alongside this shift
here’s the difference. Eliminating methane sources solves the problem — just wait a decade for it to decay in the atmosphere. Eliminating CO2 emissions alone does not solve the problem— it must also be removed to get below the 1.47 deg C we’re at now. Reducing CO2 now means less CDR in future.
Does this data represent 'natural flow' that takes into account changing water management infrastructure/practices (similar to what the USBR produces for the Colorado)?
Sure, but the lifespan of CO2 in the atmosphere compared to other GHGs means there’s a very strong case that it should be prioritized
"...the clean-energy shift excludes emissions from sources other than fossil fuels, such as greenhouse gases resulting from deforestation, soil cultivation or wildfires. But the climate damage caused by fossil fuels is unique in its scale — comprising 90% of the carbon dioxide problem..."
When he says “millions of stories of individual bravery” he’s referring to the nazis
NYT coverage of trump (and most things) is the exact perfect encapsulation of the midwit meme. Orange man is in fact bad.
that has to be top 10 of the most unflattering pictures of a steak ever taken
that's the other annoying thing at our fascist regime — they're not even good at making propaganda
I recall the deep, visceral feeling during the first few weeks of the covid pandemic when it really dawned on me just how unprepared we were. And a pandemic is just one such tail risk.
had to look this up to confirm it was true. the top youtube comments are on-point
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAHy...
I'm always dubious of google's efforts at doing things like flood prediction and other real-time natural disaster work, given that their flagship geospatial app, google maps, is terrible at terrible+dangerous during winter driving conditions
yubanet.com/regional/cal...
