Climate Blue

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Turpan Oasis

    ‘Celebrating’ Earth Day

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

  4. Feeling insecure

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

  5. 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.

  6. Aftermath of a tornado

    Thanks for the heads-up

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

  7. Wildfires destroy mountains

    Fair weather friends at COP26

    A November visit to A2 may be picturesque, thanks to the late-changing leaves. But there’s more to that story.

  8. Stock photo of a road closed due to flooding.

    Prepare to roll with the changes

    Ricky Rood encourages readers to embrace ‘systematic planning’ as a method to adapt to our changing climate.

  9. Sweet emotion

    Ricky Rood ponders the emotions of a changing climate.

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