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  1. Why The Media Keep Quoting The Same Climate Scientist
    (Daniel Swain has a knack for breaking down the complexities of climate and weather into precise but accessible ideas.)
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    theatlantic.com/science/2026/0 <-- shared media article
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    doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-006 <-- shared paper example, “Hydroclimate Volatility On A Warming Earth”
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    youtube.com/@weatherwest <-- Shared YouTube channel: Weather West
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    H/T @DanielSwain
    "The success of the climatologist Daniel Swain rests on a simple foundation: His specialty has long been how global climate change messes with local weather. Many climatologists focus on subjects that seem arcane: mean global temperatures registered in Celsius, radiative forcing, the reflectivity of clouds. Swain, in contrast, talks in plain English—constantly, really, in interviews with CBS, NBC, the Weather Channel, and The Washington Post, as well as on his own blog and YouTube channel, Weather West—about the wind and the rain and the temperature outside, and how they are influenced by the larger forces of the atmosphere.
    “He uses language that is both precise and deep but very accessible, and that’s why you see him quoted everywhere,” Mark Hertsgaard, a longtime climate journalist who is the executive director of Covering Climate Now, told [the Atlantic]. According to Swain’s own tally, he does more than 200 media interviews a year; he is, in other words, about as omnipresent as a weather guy can be in people’s lives. A climate scientist at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources’ research unit, Swain is not exactly a “weather influencer,” that breed of streamer who delivers breathless updates about the next big storm. But he has become one of the country’s most influential explainers of the weather’s relationship to the climate; you’ve almost certainly heard from him if you consume just a scintilla of climate-related news…”
    #global #climatechange #extremeweather #climatescientist #climate #scientist #media #hydroclimate #whiplash #WeatherWest #weather #localweather #metrology #connection #relationship #education #publicscience #extremeweather #climatology #wind #rainfall #precipitation #temperature #atmosphere
    @TheAtlantic

  2. #shorts #DanielSwain #WeatherWest

    Also: NOT 3°C warmer on YOUR spot, but IN AVERAGE, which means a lot hotter AND a lot cooler in different spots around the globe. Quick unpredictable changes within days or even hours, which make adaptation for living beings extremely difficult if not impossible.

    youtube.com/watch?v=M5LEWG9bqME

    #climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

  3. #FYI #WeatherWest #DanielSwain #NOAA #US #USA #trump #science #research #antiscience

    "recent proposed budget for NOAA eliminates essentially all weather and climate research, and also would result in the closure most/all national laboratories and research centers [...] potentially catastrophic decision [...]"

    youtube.com/watch?v=XlsvmYECSAY

    #climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #climatecatastrophe #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather