When Anomaly Correlations Are on Social Media. Update 20250626: This is an update on June 26, 2025. The previous posts are below. Please note all of this information is from public websites. I do my best to construct a robust story. At [...]
Minimum Temperature, January 20, Washington, DC, Reagan National Airport For more on the January 2025 cold air outbreak see 2024 Cold Snap in the Eastern U.S. January 20, 2025 is Inauguration Day in Washington DC. The weather forecast was forecast to [...]
Image: Temperature outlook for the United States issued on January 1, 2025 by the Climate Prediction Center. I have an updated post Inauguration Day 2025: How Cold Is it? http://openclimate.org/inauguration-day-2025-how-cold-is-it/ The article That Arctic blast can feel brutally cold, but [...]
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 [...]
This is a document in development. It is both incomplete and subject to major revision. Though presently written in first person, there are contributions from many in these words. None, more so than Cecelia DeLuca. Communications and Continuity Introduction I have managed [...]
This lecture was presented at the Biennale di Venezia, Italian Pavilion, on October 5, 2021. The lecture strives to make several points. As a species we have adapted to large climate change, especially at the end of the ice age. Compared to [...]
Image: The overlooked power of renewables 2007-2013: From Environmental Defense Fund This lecture is an introduction to energy production and use and their relation to climate change. In this lecture, "energy" is the energy we use as a society. That is, usable [...]
This lecture is part of my problem solving collection. This focuses on some aspects of Communications. For an introduction to the roles of Communications and Continuity in problem solving, please go to this link. Specifically, I introduce rhetoric, the skill of persuasion. The [...]
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 [...]
