Dr. Josh Bregy

Izakaya: Kikumasamune “Taru” A junmai taru sake by Kikumasamune Brewing Company

Kikumasamune "Taru" – a taru junmai sake from Kikumasamune Brewing Company

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Tea Time: "Jasmine Gold" Jasmine green tea from Asheville Tea Company

"Jasmine Gold" – a jasmine green tea from Asheville Tea Company.

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Tea Time Baozhong from Teaism

A few new articles from my Substack. Going on the lighter side right now.

A baozhong oolong from Teaism.

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Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

Congrats to @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social and colleagues for this important new paper
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Does anyone know of any (UK-based) ECRs in geography, history & archaeology working on the Little Ice Age? I'm looking for collaborators for a potential workshop!

@eseh.bsky.social @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @greenhouseuis.net

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The decline of a great university THE ACADEMY IS AN OUTDATED CONCEPT TO THE IU TRUSTEES AND STATE GOVERNMENT By Mike Leonard Peaceful , beautiful and under attack. SUVs blowing through stop signs. Cars going the wrong way on one-wa…

Truth. And such a waste for the future of the state of Indiana after five generations of investment to elevate Hoosier kids to world class status. thebtownbee.com/2025/08/31/t...

Izakaya "A Thousand Cranes" by Origami Sake

My first post on sake for the Substack.
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Hurricane Katrina at 20: Part 2 What do sand and mud tell us about the storm?

Hurricane Katrina at 20: Part 2
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The Practice and Assessment of Science: Five Foundational Flaws in the Department of Energy's 2025 Climate Report Adopted by the Executive Committee of the AMS Council on 27 August 2025

New AMS statement outlines five foundational flaws that make the Department of Energy's Climate Synthesis Report "inconsistent with scientific principles and practices."

Read the full statement: https://bit.ly/3UQRC82

Waveland, Miss., is still recovering 20 years after Hurricane Katrina hit Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Waveland, Miss. A deadly and destructive storm surge nearly 30 feet high washed away the town. Twenty years later, it's still trying to recover.

Waveland, Miss., is still recovering 20 years after Hurricane Katrina hit

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The full documentary Climate Extremes: Extreme Weather is now out on YouTube:

Tea Time Bold Black Chai from The Republic of Tea

Tea Time
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Some comments on the Bold Black Chai from The Republic of Tea.

Tropical Storm #Fernand Advisory 1: New Tropical Storm Forms South-Southeast of Bermuda. Expected to Remain Over the Open Ocean. hurricanes.gov https://x.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/1959355976588353931

So US auto loan defaults have gone over 5% for the first time ever huh

This would be awesome! I feel like all the annotations that would accumulate could almost be turned into a compendium of sorts.

Tea Time The Magician from Cup and Kettle

Tea Time
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Talking about one of the teas I've been drinking, The Magician (from Cup and Kettle in Bloomington, IN).

This new storymap of the M8.8 Kamchatka Peninsula Earthquake by the USGS is EXCELLENT and will be of great use to anyone teaching classes that involve quakes or tectonics. ⚒️
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Excited to be here!

Thanks so much, Ben! My tea drinking has only gotten worse.

Barring the ridiculous 2023 & 2024 seasons, the ocean heat content averaged over the Atlantic's Main Development Region (MDR) would be at record high values during the past 2 weeks.
The MDR stretches from Central America to Africa and is the birthplace of the majority of Atlantic major hurricanes.

Brief Ecology | Ben Lockwood, Ph.D. | Substack Highlighting recent ecological research, explaining it, and putting it into wider contexts. Click to read Brief Ecology, by Ben Lockwood, Ph.D., a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Let me add that I was inspired by @benlockwood.bsky.social, who has quite a few newsletters, including one on the latest ecology research. www.briefecology.com

Something's Brewing | Josh Bregy, Ph.D. | Substack Musings on interesting climate, natural hazards, tea, and sake. Click to read Something's Brewing, by Josh Bregy, Ph.D., a Substack publication. Launched 2 days ago.

So, I made a Substack. If you’re interested in my musings on papers I’m reading or publishing, climate and hazard current events, or the tea (or sometime sake) that I’m drinking, here it is. prehistormic.substack.com

Yes!!!!!!! (Now we just need a Paleotempestology companion episode.)

Dexter intensifies, watching two other areas across the tropics Updates and summaries on tropical Atlantic activity... including easterly waves, tropical storms, subtropical storms, and hurricanes.

The season has been abnormally quiet so far, but that can turn around quickly. As of today, the Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) is at just 28% of average for the date. 2022 actually had an even slower start, but before that, you have to go back to 2009 to find a quieter first 65 days of the season.

The #AGU25 deadline has been extended to July 31 at 17:00 EDT. If you are working on #TropicalCyclone resilience, including hazard communication, modeling hazards & infrastructure, socioeconomic or policy changes, then consider submitting to our session: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

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The #AGU25 abstract submission deadline has been extended to July 31 at 17:00 EDT, so if you're working on #paleohazards (broadly defined), consider submitting to our session: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

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#paleotempestology #paleostorms #paleofloods #drought

Chart showing average Atlantic hurricane and tropical storm activity from May to December based on data from 1944 to 2020. Activity increases sharply in August, peaking in mid-September. A marker indicates the current date as July 28, just before activity begins to rise.

On average, 86% of all named tropical systems in the Atlantic occur after August 2, and the first hurricane doesn't form until August 11.
We have a long season to go. Prepare now – Learn how at weather.gov/safety/hurricane

Influence of Indian Summer Monsoon on Marine Biological Productivity Across the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Indian Summer Monsoon runoff and marine productivity reconstructions from the Bay of Bengal in the Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene Nuanced responses to eccentricity, obliquity, and precession cha...

🚨New paper alert🚨

We present the first record of Indian Monsoon variability and marine productivity spanning the late Pliocene–early Pleistocene (3.5 - 2.3 Ma).

Multi-proxy data from the core zone of ISM rainfall - the NW Bay of Bengal.

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More than 30 years ago, I began teaching courses on data analysis in the earth sciences. 20 years ago, I started thinking about writing textbooks. Now there are six textbooks and many different course formats for you. Here are the options for you:

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