OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #243, AUGUST 11, 2025.

  

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #243, AUGUST 11, 2025.  Compiled by Dick Bennett. 

Renata Alves.  “The Southern Ocean Shift: A Warning Sign....” 

Rebekah Jones.  “Trump admin removes climate reports, vows ‘revisions.’"   
Yale Climate Connections.  Communicating the Climate Catastrophe.  

 

The Southern Ocean Shift: A Warning Sign in Global Climate Circulation by Renata Alves.   PCI Messenger.  Post Carbon  Institute .   https://www.postcarbon.org/?utm_source=Post%20Carbon%20Institute&utm_campaign=6ec096e70f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_04_23_09_58_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-3d81828221-15592605&mc_cid=6ec096e70f&mc_eid=b82ba59825 

 A new scientific study sent a quiet but serious signal through the climate science community last week: researchers have detected a shift in the Southern Ocean’s circulation patterns. While the mainstream media barely registered the news, this finding could have significant implications for global climate dynamics and the resilience of Earth’s systems. The study, powered by satellite innovations, challenges longstanding climate model predictions and offers a fresh lens into one of the most remote yet critical regions on the planet. 

 

“Trump admin removes climate reports, vows ‘revisions.’"   Mesoscale News with Rebekah Jones rebekahjones@substack.com .   Aug 11,   2025.     Click here to subscribe!    

Three days ago, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a former fossil fuel executive, announced in a CNN interview that the National Climate Assessments (NCAs)—the government’s crown jewels of climate truth—have been taken offline "because we’re reviewing them."   He added, with all the grace of an arsonist offering to supervise the cleanup, “We will come out with updated reports…with comments on those.”   These reports, demanded by law, crafted by hundreds of working scientists, peer reviewed, published every four years—gone. Not because they were flawed, but because they stood like mirrors to a burning world.   The administration also pulled all previous NCAs from public view, and fired over 400 scientists who were working on the upcoming sixth installment—an assessment scheduled for 2027 or 2028.    What once guided governors, planners, farmers, might now guide us toward existential disaster.   Scientists are rightly outraged. One researcher likened this bureaucratic erasure to Stalinist practices. These reports don’t deserve “comments”—they deserve protection.   There is a peculiar kind of violence in erasing knowledge. . . .   MORE click on title 

COMMUNICATING THE GLOBAL EMERGENCY  
Yale Climate Connections   
Dear Friends, 
Knowing your audience is key to successful communication. This is especially important when communicating climate change: a topic that elicits different responses from different people. This means your communications strategies and messages should be tailored for your audience. Our research identifies six unique audiences within the American public who perceive and respond to climate change in their own distinct ways: Global Warming’s Six Americas — the Alarmed, Concerned, Cautious, Disengaged, Doubtful, and Dismissive. 

In 2018, we created a simple 4-question survey tool, called “SASSY” — the Six Americas Super Short Survey — that helps communicators quickly categorize any individual or group of respondents. Since then, a growing number of campaigns, educators, and researchers are using this tool to better understand their audiences, screen participants for their research, and measure the effectiveness of their communication campaigns. 

Today, we are excited to release the new Guidebook: Using the Six Americas Super Short Survey (SASSY) in Campaigns and Education. 

 

 

 

 

END OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #243, AUGUST 11, 2025.  Compiled by Dick Bennett.