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Learn to recognize the common patterns of misinformation and climate denial:

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Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change  » Yale Climate Connections
Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics. 
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November 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Joe Rogan spent a whole podcast episode spouting climate misinformation. @dananuccitelli.bsky.social broke down the tactics Rogan and other climate deniers use so you can call them out when you hear them.
Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change  » Yale Climate Connections
Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics. 
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November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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We treat corporations like people. Should we treat trees that way, too?

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Does nature have rights? » Yale Climate Connections
These articles will help you ponder that question.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Birds flying above hurricanes? Damaged hospital posing as the actual one? Welcome to the phony world of AI-assisted weather disaster images. @climateconnections.bsky.social

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Imagery faked with AI’s help only added to the awfulness of Hurricane Melissa » Yale Climate Connections
A Category 5 landfall during Halloween week was scary enough on its own.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.

Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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El 10 de noviembre empieza la #COP30 en Belém, Brasil 🌿 ¿Lograrán los países avances reales contra la crisis climática?
Brasil tiene la oportunidad de crear una nueva etapa de gobernanza climática global » Yale Climate Connections
La conferencia más grande para combatir los efectos del cambio climático se llevará a cabo en la Amazonia.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Monarchs need milkweed. Bees need flowers. Solar fields can provide both – while generating renewable power. 🌞🦋🐝
Solar farms can bloom with life, not just energy » Yale Climate Connections
By planting wildflowers instead of grass, developers are creating habitat for bees, butterflies, and birds.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Still looking for a Halloween costume?
A costume to chill for » Yale Climate Connections
Energy efficiency advocate Brendan Haley highlights the benefits of heat pumps – which heat and cool homes – by dressing as one for Halloween.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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The final act of the Hurricane #Melissa 10-day rampage will be tonight in southeastern Newfoundland, bringing an end to the historic hurricane's impacts.

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Hurricane Melissa dies over the cold waters of the North Atlantic » Yale Climate Connections
In what will hopefully be the final act of the suddenly historic 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, ex-Melissa will be sweeping past Newfoundland, Canada late tonight as an extratropical storm with Cat 1...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Join us live on YouTube at 12 p.m. ET!

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Answering your scariest climate questions. Yale Climate Connections. YouTube Live. 10/31 at 12 p.m. Eastern. With Sam Harrington, audience director, and Pearl Marvell, YCC en Español editor.
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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El cambio climático causado por el ser humano aumentó la velocidad de los vientos del Huracán Melissa en un 7% (11 mph o 18 km/h), lo que provocó un incremento del 12% en los daños:
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El cambio climático fortaleció al Huracán Melissa, haciendo que los vientos de la tormenta fueran más fuertes y los daños más graves » Yale Climate Connections
Dos nuevos estudios de atribución rápida han encontrado que el cambio climático aumentó los vientos de Melissa entre un 7 y un 10%, y los daños en un 12%.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Climate change strengthened Melissa about the same amount as in Hurricane Milton and Helene last year. However, the percentage increase in damage for Melissa due to climate change (12%) was less that for Milton and Helene (~45%) because Melissa was so strong that there wasn't much extra to destroy.
Climate change strengthened Hurricane Melissa, making the storm's winds stronger and the damage worse. » Yale Climate Connections
Two new rapid attribution studies have found that climate change increased Melissa's winds by 7-10% and damage by 12%.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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They’ve held funerals for melting glaciers. Built an icy graveyard. And launched a global “casualty list.” Meet the anthropologists helping the world mourn – and fight to save – its vanishing glaciers.

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The anthropologists holding funerals for the world’s dying glaciers » Yale Climate Connections
To help people grasp what it means to lose 273 billion tons of ice a year, two researchers are treating glaciers like community members – and giving them the memorials they deserve.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Melissa fue el duodécimo gran huracán en impactar a Cuba en los últimos 25 años. Ningún huracán de gran intensidad tocó tierra en Cuba durante el período de 34 años entre 1967 y 2000:
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El Huracán Melissa de Categoría 3 azota a Cuba y avanza rápidamente por las Bahamas » Yale Climate Connections
Se espera que Melissa afecte a las Bahamas y a Bermudas como un huracán de Categoría 2, y luego se convierta en un sistema extratropical cerca de Terranova, Canadá, el viernes.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Today's #Melissa post covers the slew of remarkable records the hurricane set. And look at the calendar when thinking about these records: Melissa hit on October 28, seven weeks past the traditional peak of hurricane season, at a time when less than 10% of an average season’s activity occurs!
Cat 3 Hurricane Melissa hits Cuba, speeds through the Bahamas » Yale Climate Connections
Melissa is expected to impact the Bahamas and Bermuda as a Cat 2 hurricane, then become extratropical near Newfoundland, Canada, on Friday.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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We do it every day!
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i promise there’s a way to do journalism without being sponsored by an oil company
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October 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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My quote for today's WaPo story: "We’re going to be seeing a lot more Melissas in the future and we’re definitely not ready for it".

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The dangerous combination that made Melissa a monster hurricane
Hurricane Melissa’s power was undeniable, intensifying faster than most storms on record.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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El histórico Huracán Melissa tocó tierra en el occidente de Jamaica a la 1 p.m. EDT del 28 de octubre como un poderoso huracán de Categoría 5, con vientos de 185 mph (295 km/h).
El catastrófico Huracán Melissa azota Jamaica como el huracán más fuerte que ha tocado tierra en el Atlántico » Yale Climate Connections
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October 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Not since 1935 has anyone experienced a storm like Melissa. Melissa's record wouldn't have happened without climate change, which made the hurricane's winds about 10 mph stronger, according to a rapid attribution analysis by Climate Central. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/cata...
Catastrophic Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica as the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane on record » Yale Climate Connections
At landfall in western Jamaica, Melissa’s 185 mph winds and 892 mb pressure tied with the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 in the Florida Keys as the strongest on record for the Atlantic.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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A climate justice disaster is underway in Jamaica as Hurricane Melissa moves over the island.
Powered by abnormally warm waters, Melissa is one of the strongest storms on record. A graphic by Climate Central shows that Hurricane Melissa strengthened over warm water temperatures made at least 800 times more likely by climate change. Like many in frontline communities, Jamaicans produce a very small amount of the pollution that is changing our climate. The U.S. emitted 17.34 t CO2eq per capita in 2024. Jamaica emitted 3.22 t CO2eq per capita.
October 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Join us on Halloween! Which questions should we answer?

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October 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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You won’t look at shrimp the same way again 🍤 Ecologist Mark Easter explains how your favorite foods shape the climate – and how to eat without consuming the planet. #ClimateChaos #RegenerativeAgriculture
The ecologist who serves up climate science on a plate  » Yale Climate Connections
Mark Easter’s “The Blue Plate” turns shrimp, bread, and even pie into lessons on saving the planet, one delicious bite at a time.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Jamaica se encuentra bajo advertencia de huracán ante la llegada prevista, la mañana del martes, del huracán más fuerte registrado en su historia: el Huracán Melissa de Categoría 5:
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Jamaica se prepara para el Huracán Melissa de Categoría 5, la tormenta más fuerte del mundo en 2025 » Yale Climate Connections
Tres de los cinco huracanes del Atlántico este año han alcanzado la Categoría 5, un hecho extraordinario.
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October 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Hurricane #Melissa is on track to be Jamaica's strongest hurricane strike on record. Many superlatives to discuss in today's post, including a rough ride for the Hurricane Hunters: yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/jama...
Jamaica braces for Cat 5 Hurricane Melissa, Earth's strongest storm of 2025 » Yale Climate Connections
A remarkable three of the Atlantic's five hurricanes this year have hit Cat 5.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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As AI-generated images spread of Hurricane Melissa, thinking back to what @samlmontano.bsky.social said last year: "I do think, as bad as the misinformation has been during Helene, and I’m sure will be during Milton, we’re at the beginning here."
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Yale Climate Connections: The proliferation of AI-generated images after Helene was wild. Montano: It’s one of those things where, like, we always have false images that spread during disasters. I don’t know if you’re familiar with Hurricane Shark. I call her Clara Sharkton. That shark picture is everywhere. (Editor’s note: The shark is fake.) So there are always false images. But those were really wild, AI-generated images. That is the signal of where we’re headed. Some amount of time ago, there was an AI video that went around with the Capitol exploding or something. And they caught it quick online to dispel it. But if you were just passing a glance, I mean, it looked real enough. That kind of thing is so terrifying from an emergency management perspective. You’ve seen how difficult it is for us to be able to stomp out a myth about $750, let alone stamp out a myth about whether a disaster has even happened. I do think, as bad as the misinformation has been during Helene, and I’m sure will be during Milton, we’re at the beginning here. This could be much, much, much worse if we do not take immediate action to try and make some kind of structural changes to prevent it.
October 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM