Eric Roston

Another layer of funny is the sun is technically only "rising" if she believes she's the center of the solar system.

😂

Three dinosaurs standing in a rolling landscape with mountains in the background. A stream of white across the sky ends in a bright fireball. Foreground dinosaur, a T Rex, says, in a dialog bubble clearly photoshopped with new wording, "Whoa! Cool chemtrail!"

I bet it goes down more like this

The best hurricane forecasts of 2025 came from an AI model | CNN The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ended November 30, showcased the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence for storm forecasting. And experts say there is no turning back.

A deep dive into the superior performance of the Google DeepMind ensemble model this past Atlantic hurricane season, and what it portends for hurricane forecasting. www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/c...

Thanks for reading! Speaking of mistakes, that 36% figure came from a source that erred in its calculation. Accordingly, we removed it and posted a correction to the story.

Climate Study Widely Used by Central Banks Retracted Over Errors A widely-referenced study that calculated the impacts of climate change on the global economy has been retracted after criticism from peers.

Thanks, Graham! There is a large literature on how much climate change may cost (is costing), and that hasn't changed with the study retraction (it's why it's being retracted). We didn't write up the initial, now retracted study, but have covered the aftermath. Here's today's (🎁🔗):

Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat The New York Young Republican Club will host Markus Frohnmaier, an AfD deputy chairman, at its annual gala after calling for a ‘new civic order’ in Germany.

In Aug., the NY Young Republican Club posted a statement to its website in support of the AfD. The statement concluded with the phrase “AfD über alles” in bold, a play on the line “Deutschland über alles,” which was frequently used in Nazi propaganda www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

The Scientific American Staff’s Favorite Books of 2025 Here are the 67 books Scientific American staffers couldn’t put down this year, from fantasy epics to gripping nonfiction

It's the most wonderful time of the year, best-of book list time! At @sciam.bsky.social we do a fun spin, highlighting a ton of books individual staffers read this year and loved, and it's always a pleasure to contribute. Check out this year's list (with lots of entries from yours truly): 📚💙

When in the past, under deadline pressure, I have wished for the day to be 96 hours long, I should have been more specific.

Sorry.

I did not mean Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday.

Lede in a news article from The Ringer called "The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined": There’s no way around it. If you read this article, you are going to have to imagine Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the United States secretary of health and human services, having an absolutely eyeball-melting orgasm. You’re going to have to imagine a sweaty, leathery man in his early 70s, the scion of the celebrated Kennedy political dynasty, bellowing like a Spartan as his body yields to the sweet, sweet release. Knees buckling. Sinews straining. What does it sound like when RFK Jr. bellows? I’ll go out on a limb and say it’s gritty. His normal speaking voice is basically a garbage disposal. When the big one hits, it must be like tossing a fork in.

Here's last week's winner:

Erasing a Home’s Risks on Zillow Doesn’t Make Them Go Away We live in a golden age of magical thinking, and I’m not just talking about the trillions of dollars being burned on artificial intelligence. When it comes to our rapidly heating planet and its effect...

Lede of the week, from @markgongloff.bsky.social :

"We live in a golden age of magical thinking, and I’m not just talking about the trillions of dollars being burned on artificial intelligence."
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Poem of the Day, 12/2/25

Introduction to Poetry
By Billy Collins
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46712/...

The Risky Business of Predicting Where Climate Disaster Will Hit Climate tech companies can calculate the chances that a flood or wildfire will ravage your home. But what if their odds are all different?

Fwiw, we looked at the performance of the climate risk data models last year:
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Would be super-psyched to like Plur1bus more!

FEMA Puts Whistleblowers on Leave Shortly After Reinstating Them Days after reinstating a group of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees who raised concerns about the government’s disaster preparedness, federal officials have placed those whistleblowers bac...

In a reversal from this morning, FEMA puts whistleblowers back on leave after reinstating them

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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These days all works of fiction are science-fiction, if there's no extreme-weather disasters going on in at least the background.

Excited to be going on @thedailyshow.com tonight to discuss climate change, my new book, and the general state of the planet.

Look, Vietnam has always changed

A lost generation of news consumers? Survey shows how teenagers dislike the news media You don't have to tell Cat Murphy or Lily Ogburn about the attitudes of young people toward journalists.

wonderful, just wonderful
apnews.com/article/news...

The thing is for catching lions in the Scottish Highlands?

This is really good, nuanced reporting about pricing climate risks - and the groups who do it - that gets at why Zillow removing its climate scores is a complicated story.

The sun did not shine.
There was nothing to do.
So I named my young fists
Thing One and Thing Two.

Why’d you do that?
Sally asked just to check:
“Because all they can do
Is turn neatness to wreck.”

I named my fists Thoughts and Prayers because they don't do anything.

The Irvine model was built specifically for Los Angeles, or at least when we worked on this last year. So the available model data was limited to LA.

The Risky Business of Predicting Where Climate Disaster Will Hit Climate tech companies can calculate the chances that a flood or wildfire will ravage your home. But what if their odds are all different?

You might be curious to look at a story we did last August:
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The Risky Business of Predicting Where Climate Disaster Will Hit Climate tech companies can calculate the chances that a flood or wildfire will ravage your home. But what if their odds are all different?

Fwiw, we looked at the performance of a couple of flood models last year:
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The Risky Business of Predicting Where Climate Disaster Will Hit Climate tech companies can calculate the chances that a flood or wildfire will ravage your home. But what if their odds are all different?

Fwiw we looked last year at the performance of a few models, including FS (a company, no longer an ngo):
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...