Jaime Palter

What a cool idea!

Thanks! Will you be at OSM? Maybe I can grab a minute to learn more.

I'm very interested in your work! What do the colors in Figure 3 represent? Is "RMT" regional mean temperature of Northern Europe (if so, what boundaries)?

🌊 With @metcalfuri.bsky.social, the amazing @jfrancisclimate.bsky.social will explain extreme winter weather, and expert guru @kevinjkircher.com will discuss system-level changes to keep people safe and comfortable in any condition. Timely for all of us in week 4+ of shivering on the east coast!

Imagine having access to resources and talent to solve some really urgent and important problems. And, instead, you choose some vulnerable group of people and blame them for all the problems and create a whole vortex of chaos to publicly punish and shame those people. Like, why?

Poster child for ranked-choice voting, at least in primaries

Thanks! If you hear of anyone doing the research to see if/how/at-what-cost this could happen, I'd love to know. I want to own my EV for like 15 or more years, and juicing them for home back-up would add a lot of value to me.

Is there any hope for older vehicles to be upgraded for V2H capability? Seems like lots of folks would sign up at the right price point (I sure would).

Opinion | The Evolutionary Brilliance of the Baby Giggle

Gift link to a fun article with truly delightful video content. Who doesn't need a little baby laughter right now? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

I think @katharinehayhoe.com has a very nice discussion in the following thread about the conflation of different phenomena. She answers questions about why this view of stronger wintertime storms is not at odds with general warming and a loss/reduction of cold extremes bsky.app/profile/kath...

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Anomalous Arctic warming linked with severe winter weather in Northern Hemisphere continents - Communications Earth & Environment Anomalously high Arctic pressures and temperatures are directly and quasi-linearly linked to incidents of severe winter weather in the northern mid-latitudes, especially downstream of maximum regional...

your thoughts on this one? www.nature.com/articles/s43...
I‘m very interested in these ideas but haven’t kept up with all the literature

rock star

It feels good when laws still matter

Thanks, I’ll read it

I know that there is controversy around the claim that severe winter weather is becoming more common with a warming Arctic. This article provides some observational evidence you say is lacking. I am genuinely curious why it doesn’t rise to a convincing level. Happy to read any recommended lit

Anomalous Arctic warming linked with severe winter weather in Northern Hemisphere continents - Communications Earth & Environment Anomalously high Arctic pressures and temperatures are directly and quasi-linearly linked to incidents of severe winter weather in the northern mid-latitudes, especially downstream of maximum regional...

I’m curious to know your take on this (and related) work: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Good work by my senator ...

Climate news rarely makes my heart soar. This is a very good sign. As always, the challenge level is high, but this shows we can aspire to meet them.

Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Latest Effort to Stop Offshore Wind

Victory! Halting Revolution Wind — already over 80% complete — ruled ‘arbitrary and capricious‘ for a second time about 6 months. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

To my Rep @magaziner.house.gov, will you join to impeach Noem?

Thanks for the tip. Felt good to be there

Peaceful protest is the way. When do we get out there?

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

I'd love to read more about anyone working to help swiftly-industrializing, very populous countries (many in Asia and Africa) leapfrog dirty fuels and CO2-emitting concrete. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, but it seems like such an important, underreported part of a low-emissions future.

Let's get these turbines spinning. Glad we have an AG standing up for this project (again).

Is there anything different than what happened over the summer, when a court ruled the stop-work order illegal? I'm confused how they can role out the same arguments when they were already found illegal.

I don't even understand how the summer's court orders don't apply to this stop-work order. From the reporting I've seen so far, it looks like a carbon copy of what the administration tried a few months ago!

Honestly, a ‘study abroad‘ from your devices would be more exotic than studying in many foreign countries if you never unplug

Opinion | What Happened When My Yale Students Gave Up Their Phones for Four Weeks

I loved this article about students spending several weeks completely undigitized, with others who have also happily severed their technological tether. Instead of hermitic retreat to nature, imagine being unplugged and in the company of cool, unplugged friends. Gift link: