@borenbears

Associated Press science writer Seth Borenstein, covering climate change; email: [email protected] Bluesky: Borenbears; Teach @ NYU/DC @NewsMediaGuild

Washington, DC, USA

Joined May 2009

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@borenbears@borenbears · Jul 9

The US faces more frequent & intense extreme weather events, but attitudes and actions aren't keeping up apnews.com/article/texas-…

borenbears's tweet image. The US faces more frequent &amp; intense extreme weather events, but attitudes and actions aren't keeping up

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@borenbears@borenbears · Jul 23

Since Inconvenient Truth came out in May 2006, the global temperature has gone up 1.12 dF (.62dC) and US temperature has gone 1.38 dF. At least 277 US weather disasters costing more than $1 billion each hit for a total of nearly $1.9 trillion in damages. ncei.noaa.gov/access/billion…

borenbears's tweet image. Since Inconvenient Truth came out in May 2006, the global temperature has gone up 1.12 dF (.62dC) and US temperature has gone 1.38 dF. At least 277 US weather disasters costing more than $1 billion each hit for a total of nearly $1.9 trillion in damages. ncei.noaa.gov/access/billion…

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@borenbears@borenbears · Jul 23

AP Exclusive: UN chief says market forces point the way to curbing climate change apnews.com/article/guterr…

borenbears's tweet card. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says money, not just science, makes the case for curbing climate change.

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@borenbears@borenbears · Jul 17

It is the 206th birthday of Eunice Foote, the woman whose simple experiments in 1856 first showed what we know as the Greenhouse Effect. publicdomainreview.org/collection/fir… First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming, by Eunice Foote (1856) — The Public Domain Review

MMarc Jones@MarcEHJones · Jul 17

Happy Birthday #EuniceNewtonFoote! 🎂 She would be 206 years old today! We recently named the trace fossil #Osspecuseunicefooteae after her in this study led by Sarah Jamison-Todd on Cretaceous bone-eating worms: - journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… - journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… 🦴🪱

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@borenbears@borenbears · Jul 16

Climate scientists on heat & World Cup: “I’m getting increasingly worried that we are only one heatwave away from a sporting tragedy, & “If you want to play football for 10 hours a day, they’ll have to be the hours of the early morning & late evening" apnews.com/article/soccer…

borenbears's tweet card. Soccer faces growing challenges from extreme heat, as seen during the FIFA Club World Cup in the U.S. this summer.

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Prof Michael E. Mann@MichaelEMann · Jul 16

"How climate change could force FIFA to rethink the World Cup calendar" | Article by @borenbears and @gdunbarap for @AP: apnews.com/article/soccer…

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@borenbears@borenbears · Jul 14

Trump administration says it won't publish major climate change report on NASA website as promised apnews.com/article/climat…

borenbears's tweet card. The Trump administration has made it harder for people, local and state governments to find critical climate change reports.

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@borenbears@borenbears · Jul 12

Texas leads nation in flood deaths due to geography, size and population apnews.com/article/flood-…

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@borenbears@borenbears · Jul 12

FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show apnews.com/article/texas-…

borenbears's tweet card. Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing...

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@borenbears@borenbears · Jul 9

First of it's kind flash study estimates that burning of fossil fuels caused 1,500 deaths in recent European heat wave (2/3 of all heat deaths in the hot spell). apnews.com/article/heat-d…

borenbears's tweet card. Scientists have linked last week’s European heat wave to human-caused climate change and estimate that climate change was responsible for 1,500 deaths.

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Melodies & Masterpieces@SVG__Collection · Jul 1

On this day in 1959, the Dave Brubeck Quartet recorded “Take Five” Two years later it became a surprise hit and the biggest-selling jazz single ever. Revived since in numerous movie and television soundtracks, the piece still receives significant radio airplay. The single was…

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Matthew Daly@MatthewDalyWDC · Jul 1

Senate GOP removes tax on solar and wind energy but dismantles climate law passed by Democrats apnews.com/article/senate…

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@borenbears@borenbears · Jul 1

Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites apnews.com/article/climat…

borenbears's tweet card. Websites displaying legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared. The reports tell state and local governments and everyday people what to expect in a warming world and...

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IBHS Hail Study@ibhshailstudy · Jun 23

IBHS #researchers crush it! 💥 @AP reporters @borenbears @BrittanyKPeters & @CKaster share an inside look at @nsf_icechip and @IBHS_org research. Check it out! apnews.com/article/hail-s…

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@borenbears@borenbears · Jun 23

Crushing it. What do you do with 4,000 hailstones that you collect while chasing storms? Crush 'em, Slice 'em, Study 'em & Eat 'em w/@BrittanyKPeters @CKaster apnews.com/article/hail-s…

borenbears's tweet card. Dozens of researchers are chasing, driving and running into storms to collect fresh hail, getting their car bodies and their own bodies dented in the name of science.

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@borenbears@borenbears · Jun 23

Near historic intense high pressure system broils much of US -- half the population under heat warnings. Triple digit temps some places. Some meteorologists calculate that human-caused climate change tripled its likelihood. How and why it's so darn hot. apnews.com/article/heat-d…

borenbears's tweet card. An intense and nearly historic weather pattern is cooking much of America in a dangerous heat dome this week with triple-digit heat that hasn’t been seen in some places in more than a decade.

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@borenbears@borenbears · Jun 23

Early-season heat dome brings highest temperatures in years to parts of Eastern US. The strength of this high pressure system is near historic, makes it like being in an air fryer, says former NOAA chief scientist @RyanMaue Here's why it's happening. apnews.com/article/heat-d…

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