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 [...]
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 continous development. It should always stand on its on, and it will be updated. The [...]
Image: Forecast-based planning (left) uses predictions of a single future. Scenario-based climate change adaptation (right) works with a set of plausible futures that capture a broad range of conditions, providing a framework to support decisions under conditions that are uncertain and uncontrollable. [...]
Winter is Getting Warmer: Warming Winter Syndrome One of the most robust measures of Earth’s changing climate is that winter is warming more quickly than other seasons. The cascade of changes it brings, including ice storms and rain in regions that were [...]
Image: Long's Peak and the Colorado Front Range, Boulder County, Colorado This is a set of resources that I (Richard B. (Ricky) Rood) have collected for my classes and the Applied Climate program at University of Michigan. Recorded Lectures: Link to [...]
Image: Lenticular cloud, February 13, 2022, Boulder County, Colorado Self Efficacy: Gaining Agency on Climate Change I get the occasional letter from a stranger worried about climate change. Sometimes, they say they were referred to me. Most of these letters are whether [...]
Picture: Munising Falls, Munising, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula, April 2015. This material has evolved from several years of doing one or two guest lectures in classes at the University of Michigan in many disciplines. The students are usually climate interested, and [...]
This lecture discusses "framing" in my approach to climate change problem solving. First, I introduce what I mean by structured problem solving. I, then, motivate the need to take some control over the fact that we will be living in a strongly [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to OpenClimate This is a website on climate change and, especially, climate change problem solving. I am a professor at the University of Michigan, where I came after more than 20 years at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). [...]