Template for thinking about river floods and flooding trends. A flood is not just a lot of rain. What is this document? This document is in development. It should always stand on its on, but it will be updated. The material [...]
Alexander Mountain Fire, July 2024, Loveland Colorado. Imagine from Sentinel-2 Satellite. Posted by Tom Yulsman to Facebook. What is this document? This is a set of resources on wildfire and its relation to a warming climate. It includes writings of mine and [...]
Stories and Scenarios for a Warming Climate 20240427: This is an evolving, working document.. One of the best ways to think about our climate future is to think of stories that describe situations we are likely to face. Stories are natural to [...]
Should we panic over this sea surface temperature plot? Richard B. (Ricky) Rood University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (Emeritus) June 20, 2023 Recently, a sea surface temperature (SST) plot similar to the one here (Figure 1 and above) has been [...]
The lead image above may look like a pretty sunset, but it actually is a view of the Marshall Fire in Boulder County, Colo., in December 2021. Man vs. machine Artificial intelligence and machine learning are very fashionable right now. We tend [...]
The blame game A couple of years ago, I accepted an interview request from a conservative radio host. It was about the time that Drew Gronewold and I were talking about high water levels on the Great Lakes. We maintained a warming [...]
Takeaways from Climate Change Class If you don't want to spend the time on the course, here are some things worth knowing. We are at the beginning of a long period of sustained climate change. Plan for change. The climate will not [...]
Adapted from blog on ClimatePolicy.org, October 31, 2010. What to Do ? (1) Knowledge and Politics: In early 2010, a Republican candidate for State Office came to my office to talk about climate change. At the end of the hour he asked [...]
Climate Change: A fundamental shift of our place in the world A version of this blog appeared originally in the Michigan Journal of Sustainability. Richard B. Rood University of Michigan Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering rbrood@umich.edu May 24, 2014 During the [...]
Pulling Back from the Climate Change Precipice Richard B. Rood University of Michigan Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering rbrood@umich.edu February 23, 2018 Prepared for International Conferences on the Unity of the Sciences, Seoul Korea, 2018. Published in the conference proceedings. The [...]
