Sitemap - 2026 - The Climate Brink

Off-grid data centers have 60-80% higher emissions

How not to detect warming acceleration

The strongest El Niño in a thousand years?

The world without solar and wind?

Texas can’t hide from climate change by stopping students from learning about it

The impacts of this year’s record-shattering El Niño

My new NYT op-ed on climate change risk

The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Record

The Worst Case Is Still on the Table

What we can and cannot say about climate change and the Nepal disaster

Is this El Niño a glimpse of a future, hotter Earth?

♫ Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ♫

The real energy use of agentic AI

Fixing one of climate’s worst plots

Why Hansen may end up being right about 2026

Wildfires are remaking the world

Raw Data, Wrong Answers

Hot days, cold thermometers

Canada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest management

The Strongest El Niño Ever

What drove the early 20th century warming?

Deadly heat wave in France shows the future of climate risk

Where do heat waves come from?

How climate change influences extreme weather

The Merchants of Doubt are coming for Extreme Event Attribution science

Plateauing CO2 emissions have slowed atmospheric growth

How Science Works

Nobody knows the future of energy

On the death of RCP8.5

Higher warming predictions for 2026 and 2027

Transition risk: The human cost of net zero

We're scientists. We know the climate's changing. And we know why.

How many people does heat actually kill?

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

Climate risk explained

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

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

The El Niño cometh

When will clean energy spending exceed military spending?

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

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

The AI-Augmented Scientist

Introducing the Climate Brink Dashboard

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

Keep it in the ground?

The Climate Brink 2025 wrap-up