Carlye Peterson

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Zillow’s climate risk reversal looks like a setback. It’s really a wake‑up call. When private models sow confusion, it’s a flashing warning sign that Washington needs to fix federal flood maps,

Zillow’s climate score rollback is a wake-up call: build open, future‑conditions federal flood maps -- gold‑standard, trustworthy data for building codes, mortgages, and our future. Column today: open.substack.com/pub/susanpcr...

The three Category 5 storms of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.

A legacy of 2025’s Atlantic hurricane season is how fast storms intensified over unusually hot oceans.

5 hurricanes.
4 saw Extreme Rapid Intensification (58+ mph in 24 hrs).

Ocean heat encountered made more likely by climate change:
• Melissa: 500–900x
• Humberto: up to 90x
• Erin: up to 100x

Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after floods leave hundreds dead and many missing The president says it is the "most challenging natural disaster" in the country's history.

We’ve always had floods – but as the world warms, they’re becoming more intense and more severe.

We’re all in harms way – but those who don’t have a safe place to live, or can’t take food and water for granted, are always most vulnerable.

Unmute for sound • •• RARE: 1980's Garfield whistling tea kettle $150

RARE: 1980's Garfield whistling tea kettle $150

Geologic map of the Bay Area, showing an anastomosing network of strike-slip faults. In a second map, the blocks of crust defined by these faults are restored to their positions at 34 Ma, with arrows labeled as to the distance they have moved since that time. Extremes: Mt. Diablo has moved 175 km southeastward, while Point Reyes has moved 290 km northwestward.

Cool inset map from this "Geologic Map of the San Francisco Bay Region," by Graymer, et al. (2006). ngmdb.usgs.gov/ngm-bin/pdp/...
It shows the blocks of crust sliced & diced by Bay Area faults, and how much & in what direction they have moved in the past 34 million years.
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Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’ From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...

"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers.

For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.

Increasing central and northern European summer heatwave intensity due to forced changes in internal variability - Nature Communications Projected changes in internal climate variability are expected to amplify heatwave intensity in central and northern Europe—making these events more severe and less predictable—while dampening the tre...

European summer heatwaves are worsening unevenly

Central & Northern Europe: more moisture stress = stronger, more variable heatwaves

Southern Europe: drier but more stable = weaker extremes

Prepare for variability in the north, warming in the south

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The official home of the Python Programming Language

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Screenshot that says "Melissa has passed over waters made 1.4°C warmer, on average, by climate change." and "Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely." along with a map of Hurricane Melissa's path.

To understand the climate connection to Hurricane Melissa, check out our real-time attribution page at @climatecentral.org: www.climatecentral.org/tropical-cyc...

"Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely."

...aaaand Melissa is now the strongest tropical cyclone ever measured in the satellite era.

T8.5 = 185kt

The combined impact of fisheries and climate change on future carbon sequestration by oceanic macrofauna - Nature Communications Marine animals play a key role in locking carbon deep in the ocean, slowing climate change. This study finds that fishing has already cut this service in half, with climate change expected to further ...

The combined impact of fisheries and climate change on future carbon sequestration by oceanic macrofauna

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This 150M cat bond for Jamaica has a trigger design that uses hurricane central pressure and location.

That data is being collected by NOAA Hurricane Hunters who are currently working without pay.

www.artemis.bm/news/jamaica...

YouTube video by TheGeoModels Jamaica’s crazy mountains will make Hurricane Melissa even more dangerous | Mudslide hazard

Philip Prince discussing how the geography of Jamaica is going to govern landslide impacts upon Hurricane Melissa's landfall tonight & tomorrow. youtu.be/QQ4a_01mGQY?... ⚒️

This is a literal nightmare.

As a global civilization, we haven't even begun slowing the rise in greenhouse gases yet. Starting a *privatized* geoengineering project at this point in history will make the global climate crisis even worse.

Marine heatwave leaves critical Florida corals "functionally extinct" - Oceanographic Following a record-breaking marine heatwave in 2023 Florida's critical staghorn and elkhorn corals have been left 'functionally extinct.'

🌊 Marine heatwave leaves critical Florida corals "functionally extinct"

Following the record-breaking 2023 marine heatwave and the ninth mass coral bleaching, staghorn and elkhorn corals have dwindled to populations too small to reproduce

oceanographicmagazine.com/news/marine-...

How chef Samin Nosrat keeps up a casual weekly dinner with friends Every Monday night for the past five years, chef Samin Nosrat makes dinner with friends. She explains how she's been able to maintain this ritual, plus her "criminally good" recipe for garlic bread.

Every Monday night for the past five years, chef Samin Nosrat makes dinner with friends. She explains how she's been able to maintain this ritual, plus her "criminally good" recipe for garlic bread.

Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism? Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...

"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"

Sunday was the record-setting 18th consecutive day that the tides exceeded the "minor flood threshold" in the #Miami area. The previous record span was 17 days set in November 2019.
And already on Monday morning, the threshold has been met again, so Day 19 and counting...

#KingTide
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Southern Ocean influence on Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation across climate states - Nature Communications The properties of the Antarctic Bottom Water largely determine the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation’s depth and strength across climate states by affecting the routes via which North Atlant...

🌊 Proxy data + models show the AMOC was shallow during the last ice age, similar to projections for future warming. Its depth is set mainly by AABW density.

The Southern Ocean plays a key role in AMOC strength across climate states.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

10/14/25 pop-up live session: SoCal/Los Angeles severe thunderstorms & flash flood risk - YouTube The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain on various topics related to extreme #weather and...

Pop-up livestream this morning (8:15am PT) to discuss ongoing major SoCal storm & rare Severe Thunderstorm Watch in effect for Los Angeles. Will also discuss impending flash flood/debris flow risk in recent fire burn areas & have live radar tour. #CAwx

🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟 Peak Ground Velocity and Shaking Duration Control Coseismic Surficial Sediment Remobilization on Lacustrine Slopes and Emplacement of Seismoturbidites #SRL

Linking lake deposits with instrumentally recorded earthquakes calibrates paleoquakes.

pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...

RealClimate: High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC) The #AMOC is the reason for Europe’s mild climate. Evidence that it is slowing has been piling up over the years – it now is likely at its weakest in at least a millennium, and it may even be approach...

High resolution images from satellite and from eddy-resolving ocean circulation models point to an ongoing decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation, a key ocean current for our climate. Read more about it in my new blog article. 🌊
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

I’m doing on online summary of my class on Rachel Carson each week 🍃 🐦 follow along if you’d like to read with us!

This Congress capitulates, strips away, and serves the wealthy few.

But the next Congress can be different.

The next Congress can defend immigrants, students,& faculty.

The next Congress can protect healthcare and academic freedom.

Choice is clear: put a ✔️ on fascism or accept it.

#YesOnProp50

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Warmer, thirstier air is making droughts worse in the western U.S. bit.ly/warmer-thirs... #climatematters

Change is brewing in the coffee industry. What lies ahead? Coffee growers are facing climate change, labor shortages and incomes below the poverty line. On International Coffee Day, we take stock of the industry behind the beverage.

Coffee growers are facing climate change, labor shortages and incomes below the poverty line. On International Coffee Day, we take stock of the industry behind the beverage.