The December and early January cold snap across Alaska and northwest Canada was impressive and may well turn out to be one of the coldest multi-week events of the 21st century. Lots of details in the latest post from the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter. @Climatologist49
https://alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/alaska-and-nw-canada-cold-snap-review
The November 2025 climate summary for Alaska is posted in the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter. A comparative calm between the high impact storms of October and already in December. @Climatologist49
https://alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/alaska-climate-summary-november-2025
Most comparisons of by-country fossil fuel production are not good, because they don't convert each fuel type into its equivalent CO2 when burned. My own project (for the US only) does do this, and you can see that a coal mining company comes in at #5 for the US:
https://peri.umass.edu/index-edition/greenhouse-100-suppliers-index-2024-report-based-on-2022-data/
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