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This video includes personal musings and conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy. It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). Video description Bill Gates just published a climate think piece that has taken the internet by storm. While conservatives are claiming he's backtracked on climate change, the truth is much more subtle. So what does the Microsoft founder, Gates, get right and wrong about climate change? And why might he be downplaying the risks at a crucial moment for our planet's climate? Support ClimateAdam on patreon: https://patreon.com/climateadam

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections Joe Rogan has one of the most popular podcasts on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and a combined 50 million followers on YouTube, Spotify, and Instagram. And like nearly all of today’s most popular online shows, Rogan’s spreads climate misinformation. In an October episode of his podcast, Rogan interviewed two octogenarian fringe climate contrarians, Richard Lindzen and William Happer, who together have been spreading climate misinformation

A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, November 2, 2025 thru Sat, November 8, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (6 articles) Revisiting The Category 6 Conversation After Hurricane Melissa Forbes, Marshall Shepherd, Nov 1, 2025. Insurer calls for climate action as severe weather drives premiums up A major insurer is warning Australians to expect r

Open access notables Tropical cyclones expand faster at warmer relative sea surface temperature, Wang et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Tropical cyclone (TC) size strongly affects its hazards and impacts. This study shows that observed TC size expands substantially faster over relatively warmer water across the major Northern Hemisphere ocean basins. Expansion rates increase much more slowly with global-mean warming as found in simple model simulation experiments. Hence, ocean regions that warm more quickly are more likely to support storms that expand more rapidly, potentially increasing their potential to cause damage a

Joe Rogan has one of the most popular podcasts on the Spotify and Apple Podcasts platforms, and a combined 50 million followers on YouTube, Spotify, and Instagram. And like nearly all of the most popular online shows, Rogan’s frequently tends to spread climate misinformation. On his October 21st episode, Rogan interviewed two octogenarian fringe climate contrarians, Richard Lindzen and William Happer, who together have been spreading climate misinformation in the media that we at SkS have been debunking

Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline. Does cold weather disprove human-caused climate change The planet continues to warm due to human activity; bouts of cold weather don’t change this.  Satellites around the world measure temperatures at different places throughout the year. These are averaged to calculate annual global temperatures.  The past ten years (2015-2024) have been

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters Visible satellite image (with lightning) of Hurricane Melissa at 4:55 p.m. EDT Sunday, Oct. 26, when it was a Category 4 storm with 145 mph (230 km/h) winds. (Image credit: NOAA/CIRA) Human-caused climate change increased Hurricane Melissa’s wind speeds by 7% (11 mph, or 18 km/h), leading to a 12% increase in its damages, found

A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, October 26, 2025 thru Sat, November 1, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Law and Justice (4 articles) Trump and Republicans Join Big Oil`s All-Out Push to Shut Down Climate Liability Efforts Republican attorneys general, GOP lawmakers, industry groups and the president himself are all maneuvering to foreclose the ability of cities and states to hold the fossil fuel industry liable for damages linked to climate change. Inside Climate News, Dana Drugmand, Oct 26, 2025.

Open access notables Hourly Precipitation Intensities at 4-km Resolution Show Statistically Significant Increasing Trends From 1991 to 2022 in the CONUS-404 Hydroclimate Reanalysis, Guilloteau et al., Geophysical Research Letters Trends in hourly and daily precipitation statistics are studied using the CONUS-404 hydroclimate reanalysis at 4-km spatial resolution over the 1991–2022 period. Only a small fraction of CONUS shows statistically significant trends in the annual precipitation volume, number of wet days and mean wet-day intensity. Significant increasing trends are however found in the mean wet-hour precipitation intensity, with the trends being particularly pr

This video includes personal musings and conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy. It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). Video description Solar power has become ridiculously cheap. And unbelievably powerful at tackling climate change. Today I discuss two of the most absolutely overpowered places we can build solar photovoltaics: reservoirs (floatovoltaics) and deserts. But the future of solar is so bright, that it's worth building even in less-than-ideal locations. Let's take a look at the sunny story of today's solar PV, and what that means for our climate! Support ClimateAdam on patreon: https://patreon.com/climateadam