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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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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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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
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We're going live on Halloween 👻 🎃

Got a spooky climate question for us? Comment it below!

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Answering your scariest climate questions. Yale Climate Connections. YouTube Live. 10/31 at 12 p.m. Eastern. Sam Harrington, audience director, and Pearl Marvell, YCC en Español editor.
October 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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🚨 Starting in 10 minutes: a free webinar discussing coastal flooding with @climatecentral.org, @johnmoralestv.bsky.social, and @drjeffmasters.bsky.social.

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October 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Join us tomorrow! @climatecentral.org @drjeffmasters.bsky.social @johnmoralestv.bsky.social

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October 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Tia Taffer is a marketing director for Potential Energy Coalition, where she manages creative, digital, and social initiatives to drive impact.
Tia Taffer is a marketing director for Potential Energy Coalition, where she oversees the strategy, development, and execution of campaigns and content, managing creative, digital, and social initiatives to drive impact. For over 15 years, Tia has helped to shape brand and digital strategy for brands both in agencies and in-house, with a passion for mission-driven work. Most recently, Tia oversaw the digital engagement team at Truth Initiative, driving impactful campaigns to inspire young people to live healthy lives.
October 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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@rachelreports.bsky.social is an independent climate reporter, a fellow with the Metcalf Ocean Nexus Academy, and the cofounder of the Asian American Journalists Association’s Pacific Islander Task Force.
Rachel Ramirez is an independent climate reporter and a fellow with the Metcalf Ocean Nexus Academy. She was previously the climate reporter at CNN and has written for Grist, Vox, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, and more. Ramirez is also the cofounder of the Asian American Journalists Association’s Pacific Islander Task Force. Based in New York City, Ramirez was born and raised on the island of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory just north of Guam.
October 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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@frankwords.bsky.social is Chief Innovation Officer for the Local Media Association. He leads the Covering Climate Collaborative, a network of 25 local newsrooms and six science partners reporting on the effects of climate change, climate justice, and climate solutions.
Frank Mungeam is Chief Innovation Officer for the Local Media Association, which works with over 3,000 local media brands, as well as several hundred R&D partners in the industry. LMA’s mission is to help local media companies develop sustainable business models for news. Mungeam leads LMA’s Center for Journalism Funding, focused on developing philanthropic and collaborative models for supporting local journalism, and he leads the Covering Climate Collaborative, a network of 25 local newsrooms and six science partners reporting on the effects of climate change, climate justice, and climate solutions.
October 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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@caseymm.bsky.social is a News Application Developer at Thomson Reuters, specializing in automated mapping and turning complex datasets into engaging, easy to understand visuals.
Casey is a News Application Developer at Thomson Reuters, specializing in automated mapping and turning complex datasets into engaging, easy to understand visuals. Previously, she was a Senior Engineer at Zignal Labs, Locana, and Bocoup. Earlier in her career, Casey worked as a data and graphics journalist at the Los Angeles Times where she created the live wildfires map, and built data driven narratives at Mapbox and Vox Media. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from UNC Chapel Hill.
October 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Una Kelley is the director of strategic partnerships at NC Local, a news organization dedicated to ensuring all North Carolinians have access to trustworthy information about issues that affect them.
Una Kelley is the director of strategic partnerships at NC Local, a news organization dedicated to ensuring all North Carolinians have access to trustworthy information about issues that affect them. She previously served as the director of philanthropic development at The Associated Press, where she led a team focused on institutional fund development. She also served as a deputy within the News Partnerships group where she helped lead a team and a body of cross-departmental initiatives focused on fundraising, program development and grant management. Prior to joining the journalism field, her career was at philanthropic and nonprofit organizations.
October 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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@isaiashernandez.bsky.social is an environmentalist, educator, and communicator devoted to improving environmental literacy through content creation, storytelling, and public engagements.
Isaias Hernandez is an environmentalist, educator, and communicator devoted to improving environmental literacy through content creation, storytelling, and public engagements. Isaias is more commonly known by his moniker, Queer Brown Vegan: the independent media platform he started to bring intersectional environmental education to all. Hernandez’ journey to deconstruct complex issues while centering diversity and authenticity has resonated with a worldwide audience. He is working on his debut book, “Dear Environmentalist,” set to be published in April 2027 with Hachette Book Group under Timber Press imprint.
October 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Antonieta Cadiz is the executive director of En Acción, a project of Climate Power dedicated to informing, engaging, and mobilizing Latinos on climate issues and the opportunities of a clean energy economy.
Antonieta Cadiz has dedicated her career to ensuring Latinos in the United States have access to critical information that shapes their communities. After more than 15 years in journalism, Antonieta joined Climate Power in 2020, motivated by her own experience as a survivor of an extreme weather event. In this role, she has led Latino communications strategy, advancing coverage of climate change in Latino media at both the state and national levels. She now serves as executive director of En Acción, a project of Climate Power dedicated to informing, engaging, and mobilizing Latinos on climate issues and the opportunities of a clean energy economy.
October 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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We are thrilled to announce our advisory board! It's an honor to get to learn from these incredible people.

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October 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Una Kelley is the director of strategic partnerships at NC Local, a news organization dedicated to ensuring all North Carolinians have access to trustworthy information about issues that affect them.
Una Kelley is the director of strategic partnerships at NC Local, a news organization dedicated to ensuring all North Carolinians have access to trustworthy information about issues that affect them. She previously served as the director of philanthropic development at The Associated Press, where she led a team focused on institutional fund development. She also served as a deputy within the News Partnerships group where she helped lead a team and a body of cross-departmental initiatives focused on fundraising, program development and grant management. Prior to joining the journalism field, her career was at philanthropic and nonprofit organizations.
October 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Is your community next? King tides offer a glimpse of tomorrow’s floods. Join us for a conversation about sea level rise and king tides at 12pm ET on October 7.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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On this day 20 years ago, a climate and environmental justice disaster began as Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana. Here's a roundup of stories we've published in the last few years about the lingering effects and community projects in New Orleans and beyond.
August 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Calling for an evacuation can be a very difficult choice for local governments. Without the certainty that there will be federal money and coordination support, experts worry that evacuations that should be called, won't.

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That decision gets even harder if local officials don’t think they have financial support. In previous years, a governor might have asked for a federal disaster declaration ahead of a major storm. When approved, that would trigger FEMA support, like evacuation coordination and contracting buses to evacuate people who can’t drive and ambulances to help evacuate hospitals. “No hospital on the planet can evacuate their entire hospital with ambulances on hand,” Murphy said. Samantha Montano, the author of “Disasterology” – a book about U.S. vulnerability to disasters in the face of climate change – and an assistant professor of emergency management at Massachusetts Maritime Academy, said that there is no state that is capable of pulling off a major evacuation without federal support. “The idea that state and locals are just going to, all of a sudden, come up with this extra money for emergency management is, I don’t think, really rooted in reality, especially when you look at the overall political situation,” she said.
August 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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FEMA workers have been placed on administrative leave after warning of problems at the agency under Trump. Our own @drjeffmasters.bsky.social shares on CNN what that could mean for us as we approach peak hurricane season.
August 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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20 years since Hurricane Katrina, climate change has made hurricanes even more dangerous in many ways. These graphs show some of those ways. @climatecentral.org

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The ocean is much hotter than it was in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina made landfall. A graph showing that sea surface temperatures in 2025 are running about one degree Fahrenheit higher than they were in 2005. The sea level in coastal Louisiana has risen dramatically since 2005. A graph showing sea level rise is increasing in Grand Isle, Louisiana. Rainfall from tropical cyclones is getting more intense. A graph showing that rainfall from hurricanes in the Northern Atlantic has gotten heavier since 2005. Hurricanes are getting stronger more quickly, leaving less time for communities to evacuate. A bar chart showing that more and more hurricanes are intensifying at least 58 mph in 24 hours.
August 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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While Hurricane Erin is not expected to make landfall along the U.S. East Coast, it will make coastal conditions dangerous. Read the latest update from meteorologist Jeff Masters:

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August 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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July 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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June 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Meanwhile, the seas are higher, hotter, hurricanes are stronger, rainier, and more likely to rapidly intensify. NOAA cuts are making forecasts worse, and more people live in coastal areas than they did 20 years ago.

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A graph of Daily global sea surface temperatures the line for 2005 is significantly lower than the line for 2025. Created by Climate Central.
June 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM