Are you fire ready?
With latest news landing that the current developing El Niño could be the most extreme on record, it is important to revisit fire safety plans. First the El Niño update: With all the July model runs now in, it is very likely that 2026 will see the largest El Niño event since records began in the…
Data helps with risk mitigation
Prof Eliot Jacobson published this graphic a few days ago: We can be extremely thankful for this data we as it helps us with risk mitigation. Have you heard of the Clausius-Clapeyron relationship? This is one of the most robust findings in atmospheric physics (you can read more about it here)…
When climate risk becomes an insurance risk on the Garden Route
The central message is straightforward: repeated extreme-weather losses are changing how insurers and reinsurers assess the Garden Route.
Knysna’s new climate reality
Berkeley Earth have just released a powerful new tool called Synthesis by Berkeley Earth which they describe as a new city-level climate intelligence platform combining our high-resolution observational record with forward-looking warming projections for more than 8,000 locations worldwide…
Solutions Sunday – we can all be more energy efficient
In a nutshell, energy efficiency means using less energy to perform the same task or achieve the same result. It is the practice of eliminating energy waste while maintaining the same level of performance, comfort, or convenience. A major study by Rao et al entitled Energy requirements for decent…
Climate induced collapse – a timeline
Earlier this month the Western Cape Government announced that the initial storm damage assesment following the recent extreme weather events had reached a staggering R9 billion, R1 billion of which was in the Garden Route District Municipality
Solutions Sunday: The electric vehicle revolution
In this Solutions Sunday post we turn our attention to the Transport Sector which as you can see below is responsible for approximately 16% of global emissions. When we zoom in on this sector we can clearly see where our attention needs to be and what would cause the biggest shift in transport…
May ERA5 data confirms James Hansen et al projections
With the release of the May 2026 ERA5 data James Hansen et al are once again proven right. Here was what they said in March of 2024: We expect the average of the El Nino maximum and the La Nina minimum of global temperatures to be ~1.5°C. Given Earth’s huge energy imbalance – more energy coming in…
Solutions Sunday: We can destroy gas demand
We have know for decades what is driving human caused greenhouse gas emissions, as you can see below: In our Solutions Sunday series so far, we have seen that we have the solutions to knock out the coal and oil emission pillars. But what about methane gas, often referred to as “natural” gas by the…
Solutions Sunday: Breaking our reliance on oil
Oil is the second dirtiest fossil fuel next to coal. Being able to destroy demand for oil will make a dramatic impact on our current emissions trajectory, especially when combined with demand destruction for coal, and we have the technology to do it! The Solution The transportation sector is the…
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