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I’m a meteorologist who strives to foster our connections with our changing planet.

I’m a writer who seeks to change the narrative of the climate emergency away from dystopia toward courageous, imaginative possibility.

I’m an ecosocialist who believes that a better world is possible.

The weather has helped make us who we are, and now it’s time to remake our world into one centered on justice and life.

We’re in this together.

**My first book, THE FUTURE EARTH, is available now.**

Available for media appearances, collaboration, and scheming to change the world.

Email: sciencebyericholthaus@gmail.com

Signal/WhatsApp: 316.295.8947

Bluesky: @ericholthaus.com

Newsletters:

The Phoenix (monthly worldbuilding towards a post-capitalist zero carbon future)

Currently on Earth (weekly trauma-informed commentary on weather and climate)

Accolades:

“America’s weather-predicting boyfriend” –The Awl

“The Rebel Nerd of Meteorology” –Rolling Stone

“Smart” –Rachel Maddow

“A respected climate journalist” – Rebecca Solnit

“The internet’s favorite meteorologist” –Jason Kottke

“One of our generation’s finest climate communicators” –Jason Hickel

“A meteorologist for the millennial generation” –Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Alumni Magazine

“One of the country’s most important and influential writers on climate change” –Grist

“Accurate, alarmist, insightful, sound reasoning” –Climate Feedback

“Kook…Sniveling beta-male…dweeb…drama queen” –Fox News

Selected works

The Guardian

Jul. 16, 2025: How climate crisis makes rainstorms that flooded New York more common

Jul. 6, 2025: Texas floods reveal limitations of disaster forecasting under climate crisis

Jul. 1, 2025: Severe weather hits the US hard as key forecast offices reel from Trump cuts

Jun. 28, 2025: Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’

Jun. 11, 2025: Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired

Jun. 5, 2025: Rapid snowmelt and Trump cuts compound wildfire fears in US west

May 30, 2025: Canadian wildfires are record-breaking – and will threaten North American air quality for days

May 26, 2025: US faces another summer of extreme heat as fears rise over Trump cuts

Mar. 7, 2025: Trump layoffs have hollowed out key weather monitoring staff amid storm season

Feb. 12, 2025: Noaa imposes limits on scientists, sparking concerns over global forecasts

Feb. 11, 2025: Trump’s anti-DEI executive orders could jeopardize safety of Nasa crews

Feb. 5, 2025: US scientists feeling ‘stress and fear’ as sweeping Trump orders hit funding

Jan. 9, 2025: The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded

Fast Company

Mar. 28, 2025: The 1930s Dust Bowl is infamous in American history—and we could be heading for another one

Mar. 5, 2025: Inside the ‘slow-rolling catastrophe’ of Trump’s NOAA cuts

Jan. 31, 2025: Trump wants to get rid of FEMA. The future of disaster relief would be grim

Jan. 7, 2025: The horrifying L.A. wildfires are being fueled by the worst conditions January has ever seen

Oct. 15, 2024: AI is changing my work as a meteorologist—Hurricane Helene and Milton proved there’s no going back

Oct. 8, 2024: How a climate disaster in North Carolina is causing IV fluid shortages across the country

Sep. 27, 2024: Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida—but the damage will be much more widespread

Sep. 11, 2024: The presidential debate only gave 120 seconds to climate change

Slate

Jan. 13, 2025: Last Year Was the Hottest Year in Recorded History. Buckle Up.

Jan. 1, 2025: The Best Climate Resolution This Year? Do Nothing.

Nov. 7, 2024: The Renewable Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable

Oct. 16, 2024: The Northern Lights Just Are Not That Interesting to the Naked Eye. Enough!

Nov. 14, 2016: The Kids Suing the Government Over Climate Change Are Our Best Hope Now

Nov. 9, 2016: All Is Not Lost on Climate Change

Mar. 25, 2016: What Do Trump Supporters Think About Climate Change? I Went to a Rally and Asked.

Mar. 22, 2016: James Hansen’s Bombshell Climate Warning Is Now Part of the Scientific Canon

Feb. 20, 2016: Cyclone Winston, Strongest Southern Hemisphere Storm in History, Hits Fiji

Dec. 24, 2015: This Freakishly Warm, Totally Wrong Christmas Eve Weather, Explained

Dec. 12, 2015: Paris Agreement Ushers in End of the Fossil Fuel Era

Nov. 14, 2015: Bernie Is Absolutely Right: Climate Change Makes Terrorism Worse

Sep. 10, 2015: The Battle for the Weather Channel Is Over, and the Weather Nerds Won

Sep. 1, 2015: Obama Is Basically Running a Petrostate

May 14, 2015: Huge El Niño Becoming More Likely in 2015

Mar. 30, 2015: Of Daisies and the Robot Apocalypse

Sep. 23, 2014: This Climate Change Poem Moved World Leaders to Tears Today

Aug. 20, 2014: Why I’m a Climate Change Alarmist

Aug. 7, 2014: The National Weather Service Should Be Replaced by Gawker

May 14, 2014: Ten Percent of California’s Water Goes to Almond Farming. That’s Nuts.

Mar. 11, 2014: The Thirsty West: Can Tucson Survive Climate Change?

Feb. 19, 2014: Available for a Limited Time Only

The Correspondent

March 5, 2020: No, the coronavirus is not good for the climate

Feb. 1, 2020: Why Bernie Sanders is the best climate candidate in the US (and four voting tips for climate action)

Jan. 14, 2020: Through song, passion, and protest, Varshini Prakash’s Sunrise Movement is changing US climate politics

Jan. 8, 2020: In 2030, we ended the climate emergency. Here’s how

Dec. 3, 2019: Meet Julian Brave NoiseCat – the 26-year-old shaping US climate policy

Nov. 21, 2019: On doing enough

Oct. 4, 2019: To fly or not to fly

Sep. 30, 2019: Climate change is about how we treat each other

Washington Post

July 9, 2019: Trump’s ‘environmental leadership’ is sending us to a climate disaster

Sep 12, 2018: Climate change wrought this freak of nature

Dec. 13, 2016: Why I’m trying to preserve federal climate data before Trump takes office

Oct. 17, 2014: ‘Storm Surge’ by Adam Sobel, ‘Superstorm’ by Kathryn Miles, on Hurricane Sandy

Dec. 3, 2012: Weather Service draws fire for halting Sandy review panel; agency cites regulations

Nov. 28, 2012: Department of Homeland Security may review Superstorm Sandy warnings

Grist

May 2, 2019: Lawns are the No. 1 irrigated ‘crop’ in America. They need to die.

March 19, 2019: Cyclone Idai lays bare the fundamental injustice of climate change

March 2, 2019: To fear or not to fear?

Feb. 7, 2019: The Green New Deal is an opportunity for America to get right with the world

Nov. 15, 2018: The bizarre and frightening conditions that sparked the Camp Fire

Oct. 15, 2018: If you’re suffering from climate grief, you’re not alone

Oct. 8, 2018: U.N. climate report shows civilization is at stake if we don’t act now

Aug. 22, 2018: The 1.5 Generation

June 27, 2018: With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory, Congress will likely gain a new climate champion

May 29, 2018: Hurricane Maria was so much worse than we thought

May 3, 2018: Humans didn’t exist the last time there was this much CO2 in the air

May 2, 2018: The water war that will decide the fate of 1 in 8 Americans

April 3, 2018: Beneath the Ice: Exclusive photos show the hidden lives of minke whales in a warming Antarctica

March 8, 2018: Up in Smoke: Trees are dying at unprecedented rates. Can we rethink conservation before it’s too late?

Jan. 5, 2018: Heartbroken scientists lament the likely loss of ‘most of the world’s coral reefs’

Dec. 18, 2017: Let it go: The Arctic will never be frozen again

Dec. 5, 2017: Bitcoin could cost us our clean energy future

Nov. 21, 2017: Ice Apocalypse

Sep. 28, 2017: Puerto Ricans are living climate change right now. Here’s how they describe it.

Jul. 10, 2017: Stop scaring people about climate change. It doesn’t work.

Sierra Magazine

Feb. 28, 2018: Got Those Climate Change Blues

Politico

Aug. 28, 2017: Harvey is What Climate Change Looks Like

Pacific Standard

Jun. 20, 2017: The Science Behind Arizona’s Record-Setting Heat Wave

Mar. 16, 2017: Climate Change has “Permanently” Changed the Great Barrier Reef

Jan. 25, 2017: Trump’s Attacks on Science Represent a National Security Threat

Aug. 16, 2016: Bracing Ourselves for the Climate Tipping Point

Aug. 12, 2016: America’s Latest 500-Year Rainstorm is Underway Right Now in Louisiana

Mother Jones

Feb. 22, 2017: “We Will Never Stop”: An EPA Employee Blasts the Trump Administration

FiveThirtyEight

Oct. 7, 2016: Wind Speed Alone Isn’t The Best Way To Measure A Weird Hurricane Like Matthew

Mar. 23, 2016: When Will The World Really Be 2 Degrees Hotter Than It Used To Be?

The New Yorker

Sep. 22, 2016: How the Reaction to Trump Could Be Good for the Climate

Newsweek

Aug. 21, 2016: Why Obama Must Pay Attention to the Louisiana Floods

ThinkProgress

Apr. 12, 2016: The Largest Coral Atoll In The World Lost 80 Percent Of Its Coral To Bleaching

Motherboard

Oct. 29, 2015: Hypercane (fiction)

Rolling Stone

Aug. 5, 2015: The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares are Already Here

Vice

Mar. 5, 2015: Should Climate Change Stop Us from Having Babies?

YouTube

Jan. 6, 2014: Boiling water vs. extreme cold

Quartz

Dec. 20, 2013: The only way to stop climate change now may be revolution

Nov. 10, 2013: How to fix global warming before it’s too late

Oct. 1, 2013: Why I’m never flying again

Sep. 27, 2013: The world’s best scientists agree: On our current path, global warming is irreversible—and getting worse

The Wall Street Journal

Feb. 6, 2013: Weather Journal: Snowstorm of Uncertainty Nears

Oct. 25, 2012: Weather Journal: Not Your Average NYC Hurricane Threat

Feb. 2, 2012: Growing Warmer, Growing Earlier