Climate Blue

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. baseball on the plate

    The heat is on

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

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Turpan Oasis

    ‘Celebrating’ Earth Day

    Ricky Rood has thoughts about the National Science Foundation’s Earth Day Celebration.

  7. Feeling insecure

    Ricky Rood examines the climate change nexus with energy security, national security, and economic security.

  8. A view of the Marshall Fire in Boulder County, Colo., in December 2021.

    We need human learning more than machine learning

    Artificial intelligence is fine, says Ricky Rood, but human intelligence will drive the solution to our climate crisis.

  9. Aftermath of a tornado

    Thanks for the heads-up

    Winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize in physics were cited for ‘reliably predicting global warming.’

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