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The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive “office hours” hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain on various topics related to extreme weather and climate.11/6/2024 topic: I’ll discuss…some stuff. Feel free to join me.
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Good job reflecting the sobering reality of the moment.
You’re an excellent bearer of bad news: you lay out the foundations, explain the details, and provide options for moving forward. Thanks so much for saying what you say.
I'm an Architect, who has followed the WeatherWest blog since the time of the RRR. My job is under severe threat also as the labor that builds buildings is going to be deported. I, too, feel doomed.
You’re greatly appreciated. A lot of us share the sense of dread. I hope it is better than we think it will be.
You're going to be stuck with the results of this election for the rest of your life. There's no escaping that elections matter.
Thank you for the thoughtful insight
The election was close. Trump made it over the electoral college finish line, but not by a great amount. And once all the popular vote is tallied (it will be a couple of weeks) I think you'll see the popular vote was close too.
I subscribed to you in 2013, as I was looking for a source of information during the severe drought in California of that period of time. Since then, you have moved into a much broader range via linking weather with AGW, and communication with the public. And I commend you because you made/make me think outside my own backyard. I wish that other people would take a breath out of their box of political slants and listen to you and your colleagues. Your studies are science based.
Liked and shared with my friends but it's mostly falling on slanted ears now, sad to say. Today sucks. Glad i got my bottle of scotch. I'm in total shock of what just occurred.
Keep your head up Swain. Half the country is still listing to you another climatologists, Europe is listening, Asia is listening. We can get through this once again. Do what you do and the world we be a better place.
Appreciate you and all you say here, Daniel. Thank you.
The death threats are deeply disturbing. As is the climate news. Maybe the economics will drive the reduction in greenhouse gases, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
Thank you for being real, honest, and helping make sense of what comes next, and how we will create more community to improve our outcomes (e.g. I have been reading your blog since the beginning and this is my first ever social media comment on yours or anywhere).
Thank you for your kindness and generosity in helping the public.
Greatly appreciate your knowledge, opinion and perspective. Thank You! Super disheartening to know that you receive threats!
Wow! 2.5 degrees? Global mass scale crisis …
Thank you so much for that – I wasn't able to live stream but I watched the whole recording and will share it with others. Your measured but realistic tone combined with your scientific expertise is what the world needs now. Please take good care of yourself, I'm sorry to hear about the threats and harassment but I hope know that there are so many of us who appreciate what you do.
Very thoughtful and grounded discussion of potential election impacts. Thank you for everything you do
Good g_d, death threats? Wow. Not even one day, and scraping the bottom.
They are going to attempt privatizing the commons that we all put our labor into creating, whether directly like you or by our taxes. It is none other than theft of what we all own in common and what not only belongs to us but belongs to the next generations. It shouldn't be sold to the highest bidder.
Thanks for all that you do Dr. Swain. I’ve been following your blog and social media since early high school. I am now a senior in college studying Environmental Science and am conducting research on waves at the University of Hawaii partly because of my inspiration from you. I hope to one day be as knowledgeable as you in climate, weather, and our environment. Thank you for sharing your expertise and being an invaluable source of information!
Daniel, thank you very much for your well thought out live session. I appreciate you and your articulation of where we are at today and where we are headed. It is scary, but your plain, yet intelligent talks about weather and climate, help me greatly. As a resident of Ventura County, your coverage these past ten years thru WW and now YouTube have been so important to me and my family.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Please continue to remind us how to support you and your work.
Daniel, thank you very much for your well thought out live session. I appreciate you and your articulation of where we are at today and where we are headed. It is scary, but your plain, yet intelligent talks about weather and climate, help me greatly. As a resident of Ventura County, your coverage these past ten years thru WW and now YouTube have been so important to me and my family.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Please continue to remind us how to support you and your work.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on what lies ahead, I appreciate how difficult it was to have a discussion on a day like this (especially with the threats you are receiving, yikes). Like you said, this has to be a call to action. We most likely cannot stop the changes that will come starting in 2025, but we must not let them happen quietly. The people should hear about what they are losing as these moves are made, not when the next disaster strikes them.
Good words, thank you.
Jung saw the advent of the "Iron Curtain" as symbolic as the split between spirit and materialism, the split in the mind of man. I see the policies of trump as isolating each individual, captured in symbolically isolating America. Building a wall. Each man for himself.
Trump's idea is that the individual can solve any problem, a person that can't solve their problems is weak, ineffectual, useless. A person with loads of money can solve any problem.
Greetings from Uganda