This tool is a replica of the National Risk Index (NRI) Future Risk tool, which was removed from the public by the US Government in February, 2025 because it analyzes regional risks due to anthrpogenic climate change. It references the following datasets which were downloaded before the tool was taken down:
- NRI Future Risk Master Datasheet
- NRI Data Dictionary
(The datasets are the .xlsx spreadsheets in public/.)
A monthly newsletter about natural disasters and climate change.
The NOAA runs this project.
The State Climate Summaries provided here were initially produced to meet the demand for state-level climate information in the wake of the Third U.S. National Climate Assessment. This 2022 version provides new information and extends the historical climate record to 2020 for each state. The summaries cover assessment topics directly related to NOAA’s mission, specifically historical climate variations and trends, future climate model projections of climate conditions during the 21st century, and past and future conditions of sea level and coastal flooding. Additional background information and links are given below.
Sometimes, you just want to know you’re not alone.
This newsletter talks about what’s really going on in the world, with an unfiltered but empathetic perspective. I have a Ph.D. in English, but I study language and communication, including the history of both. This is where I go to post my blunt thoughts about politics, culture, and education.
A few years ago, I didn’t think I’d be writing about pathogens and pandemics, but circumstances compelled me to start speaking up against mainstream narratives that I found harmful and counterproductive. I saw populism and wishful thinking overpowering the saner voices in the room. It disturbed me. I couldn’t keep quiet, so I started posting my opinions online.
There’s an edge in my writing, and that’s because I’ve spent most of my career working with marginalized students from some of the poorest school districts in the entire country, arguably the entire world. If you’ve worked as a public servant, you know how deeply infuriating it can feel to watch so many of your efforts get undone by poor leadership and public apathy.
I’ve often thought about leaving education over the last few years. There might come a day when I have to resign to protect myself and my family, or I might get fired for doing what I consider the right thing. (Tenure used to mean something, but universities can always get rid of troublemakers.) In the meantime, this newsletter keeps me going, and I hope it keeps others going.
CHELSA (Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas) is a very high resolution (30 arc sec, ~1km) global downscaled climate data set currently hosted by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL. It is built to provide free access to high resolution climate data for research and application, and is constantly updated and refined.
It includes climate layers for various time periods and variables, ranging from the Last Glacial Maximum, to the present, to several future scenarios.
CHELSA is based on a mechanistical statistical downscaling of global reanalysis data or global circulation model output and is freely available in the download section.
AKA the "I'm not a climate scientist but I play one on the internet" dashboard.
A blog about the increasing influence of politics upon science of the environment.