Plausible Storylines for a Warming Climate One of the best ways to think about our climate future is to think of plausible storylines. By plausible, I mean that they are consistent with science-based evidence and experience. Here is a link to a [...]
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 [...]
This is a brochure that Emily Upton and I wrote on logical fallacies and the use of rhetorical techniques in conversations on climate change and climate change denial. The George C. Marshall Institute was a conservative think tank that provided resources for [...]
In early September 2019, Hurricane Dorian stalled over the Northwestern Bahama Islands and scoured the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama. During much of its stall, Dorian was a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. This scale primarily measures one attribute [...]
