Month: October 2025

Jamaica Digs Out After Most Powerful Hurricane in its History

Good Channel 4 (UK) report above.

Comment free clips below from Fox Weather are a reminder that climate impacts are falling most heavily on those least equipped to be resilient.

New York Times:

Hurricane Melissa brought life-threatening storm surge and flooding to Cuba on Wednesday after leaving a swath of destruction in Jamaica, where power and internet outages were making it difficult to assess the scale of the damage.

The storm weakened somewhat before making landfall in Cuba, and is now a Category 2 storm, the National Hurricane Center said on Wednesday morning. Melissa remained potent and dangerous, though: Parts of eastern Cuba were set to receive more than 20 inches of rain and dangerous flooding, and the southeastern Bahamas were expected to receive up to 10 inches of rainfall as the storm advanced.

Climate Flooding Worsens Vermont Housing Crisis

Vermont,once widely viewed as a “climate refuge” area, has in recent years been hit by a series of extreme rain events, which proved the quiet villages nestled along rivers between water-shedding hillsides, are actually worse case examples of climate vulnerabilty.
They need to find better housing solutions on higher ground.

And the Nimbys, who, like all Nimbys, insist they are not Nimbys, aren’t helping.
PBS Newshour report. Glad they are still surviving in the age of Stupid.

Musk’s Politics Costing Tesla’s Brand Bigly

EV purchasers, to their credit, not enthusiastic about the Nazi stuff.
Another data point about climate deniers?

Electrek:

According to a new working paper, Musk’s “polarizing and partisan actions” have directly cost Tesla over a million vehicle sales in the US alone.

The study, titled “The Musk Partisan Effect on Tesla Sales,” argues that without this effect, Tesla’s sales would have been 67% to 83% higher between October 2022 and April 2025. That’s an absolutely massive number, and it suggests Tesla’s recent sales slump isn’t just about “increased competition” or “pent-up demand” being satisfied.

It’s about the brand.

The researchers from Yale and NBER didn’t just run a poll. They dug into county-level, monthly new vehicle registration data for all EVs and hybrids from March 2020 to April 2025.

They used a “difference-in-differences” analysis. In simple terms, they tracked how sales trends changed in heavily Democratic-leaning counties versus heavily Republican-leaning counties. The “treatment” event that broke the trend? Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter in October 2022.

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“No One Will be Spared” – Melissa is Strongest Storm This Year

892 millibar monster.