John Shewchuk
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John Shewchuk
@_ClimateCraze
Lt Col, USAF Retired, Meteorologist (CCM) Book: https://t.co/uI1lWnbLRM Creator: https://t.co/OwkNHtscCv Former typhoon forecaster NWS COOP Observer: 1995-2012


@_ClimateCraze Extreme weather events have risen, but at the same time, we are able to deal with them better, resulting in fewer direct deaths. The financial cost is rising. The world is getting better, and dealing with climate change will improve things.




@_ClimateCraze Extreme weather events have risen, but at the same time, we are able to deal with them better, resulting in fewer direct deaths. The financial cost is rising. The world is getting better, and dealing with climate change will improve things.



Great news: Global deforestation slows. The world in 2025 razed less forest than in any other year in the last decade. This is wonderful news! Some of the biggest gains this year were seen in Brazil 🇧🇷, home to most of the Amazon rainforest. The rate of deforestation last year fell 41 percent from the year before. It was the lowest amount of human-caused deforestation in Brazil since recording started. Bravo, President Lula - your policies works! Other big nations doing well are Indonesia, Malaysia and Colombia. Forest fires amplified by climate change is an increasing threat to the forest, the report from World Resources Institute finds. More: lnkd.in/dhDRDhhg
























Texas built the largest wind fleet in America. More than 30,000 turbines, costing billions in subsidies, sold as clean, limitless energy. But in February 2021, reality hit. A historic cold outbreak froze the turbines. Power output across the state collapsed within hours. The grid buckled. Millions lost electricity. Almost 1,000 people died. And while politicians blamed gas lines and 'unexpected weather,' the data pointed to a grid that had grown dangerously dependent on wind. Texas had the capacity. But it didn't have reliability. Emergency generators fired up. Diesel. Gas Anything that worked. The promise was clean energy. The reality was blackouts, Texans freezing to death, and a grid one cold snap away from collapse.


This is one of the most absurd temperature maps you’ll ever see. A sea of #1 hottest April on record across the Ohio Valley and Tennessee Valley — including statewide records that stood since 1896. Ohio alone: ➡️ ~+8.5°F vs 20th century mean ➡️ Only a couple degrees below the 20th century average for May Media reaction? Complete and utter radio silence. Absolutely shameful. 🔇










#450. Drought. “Large swaths of the United States are in desperate need of soaking rainfall as drought continues to deepen. Stretching from Oregon to Florida and northward to the nation’s capital, nearly 63% of the country is facing drought conditions of varying intensity.” - Ben Knoll, Washington Post. 4/30/26. #drought












