The Climate Brink

Human-caused climate change is unmistakably distinct from Earth’s natural climate variability

Five independent fits across four independent archives and 66 million years — the empirical case in two figures

Published on Staying Curious • Apr 7

March 2026

Climate risk explained

a chapter from my upcoming textbook

Mar 31 • Andrew Dessler

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Using a 20-year period for comparing methane to CO2 is a terrible idea

Short-term thinking makes for bad climate policy

Mar 28 • Zeke Hausfather

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Don’t panic: A field guide to the runaway greenhouse

the Earth may eventually turn into Venus, but not anytime soon

Mar 19 • Andrew Dessler

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The El Niño cometh

The latest models show a much greater change of a strong – or even super – El Nino developing later this year

Mar 12 • Zeke Hausfather

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When will clean energy spending exceed military spending?

Why I may have been a tad premature in my 2026 prediction.

Mar 6 • Zeke Hausfather

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The war in Iran shows us another cost of our fossil-fuel economy

our reliance on fossil fuels makes us less safe

Mar 5 • Andrew Dessler

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OBITUARY: The DOE Climate Working Group Report, 2025–2026

it died in a footnote

Mar 2 • Andrew Dessler

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February 2026

The AI-Augmented Scientist

The promise and pitfalls of using AI tools to boost my capabilities as a scientist

Feb 24 • Zeke Hausfather

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Introducing the Climate Brink Dashboard

A new place to find daily updated climate data

Feb 9 • Zeke Hausfather

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Fact check: Climate change is not making extreme cold more common

Sometimes it just gets cold

Feb 2 • Zeke Hausfather

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January 2026

Keep it in the ground?

When the politics of affordability meet the needs of climate mitigation

Jan 5 • Zeke Hausfather

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