Climate Blue

  1. Shattered material against a black background. Represents "fragmentation."

    Fragmented mediocrity

    Ricky Rood ponders the insidious and pervasive nature of fragmented mediocrity in the realm of climate science.

  2. At Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, the James Webb Space Telescope will soon be encapsulated inside this 17 meter-high, 5.4-meter diameter fairing, which will provide protection from the thermal, acoustic and aerodynamic stresses during the ascent to space.

    Who wants to see the future, anyway?

    Ricky Rood compares modeling the climate to peering through a telescope — and seeing the future.

  3. Earth Day Founders

    It depends on the second meeting

    Ricky Rood reflects on President Ono’s stated commitment to carbon neutrality and its challenges.

  4. Stars in our eyes

    Astronomy consistently garners more public support than the earthbound sciences. Could it be those fancy telescopes?

  5. Hurricane winds batter Florida beaches

    You can run but you can’t hide

    Evacuation during extreme storms is a short-term option, says Ricky Rood. But sooner or later, weather will find you.

  6. A roaded collapsing into the sea due to sea level rise on the Holderness coast

    The allure of cycles

    Sea level rise has Ricky Rood thinking about what makes a cycle and what makes a trend.

  7. baseball on the plate

    The heat is on

    Cherry-picking temperature records? Yes, it happens, says Ricky Rood.

  8. Shards of wind-driven ice formed jumbled mounds, called ice shelves or ice ridges, on Saginaw Bay.

    How good are your coping skills?

    Sometimes we’re so good at coping with weather and climate change, we don’t realize we’re doing it.

  9. Stock image of people in blindfolds

    Knowledge isn’t only power

    Ricky Rood takes the adage ‘knowledge is power’ and tempers it with an unavoidable dash of fear.

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