<![CDATA[Southern Winds - Medium]]> https://medium.com/southern-winds?source=rss----39e917513342---4 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/proxy/1*TGH72Nnw24QL3iV9IOm4VA.png Southern Winds - Medium https://medium.com/southern-winds?source=rss----39e917513342---4 Medium Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:27:45 GMT <![CDATA[Some of the Sky Used to Be Rock]]>

An AMOC slowdown travels across the Sahara and into the making of clouds.

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]]> https://medium.com/southern-winds/some-of-the-sky-used-to-be-rock-a055edfb2f0f?source=rss----39e917513342---4 https://medium.com/p/a055edfb2f0f Mon, 02 Nov 2026 02:16:05 GMT 2026-11-02T02:16:05.458Z <![CDATA[Cook on Top, Suffocate Below: The Trout Lake I Built to Kill Them]]>

I stocked the most beautiful trout in Montana into my new lake. It took three summers to learn what the lake had been trying to tell me.

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]]> https://medium.com/southern-winds/cook-on-top-suffocate-below-the-trout-lake-i-built-to-kill-them-e56055c36552?source=rss----39e917513342---4 https://medium.com/p/e56055c36552 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:49:13 GMT 2026-10-30T17:49:12.422Z <![CDATA[What If We Say “F*ck the AMOC”?]]>

The Atlantic’s collapse date keeps moving. The speed we’re heating it doesn’t.

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]]> https://medium.com/southern-winds/what-if-we-say-f-ck-the-amoc-1572788b4f55?source=rss----39e917513342---4 https://medium.com/p/1572788b4f55 Wed, 28 Oct 2026 01:47:01 GMT 2026-10-28T01:47:01.002Z <![CDATA[Can a Country Be Too Small to Blame?]]>

Every tonne warms the planet. In court, none is ever large enough to answer for a flooded grave

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]]> https://medium.com/southern-winds/can-a-country-be-too-small-to-blame-fcf6f94c92b6?source=rss----39e917513342---4 https://medium.com/p/fcf6f94c92b6 Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:30:13 GMT 2026-10-27T20:30:12.423Z <![CDATA[The Contrail Loophole]]>

Contrails heat the planet alongside jet fuel, and dodging the worst of them is cheap. So why does no law make airlines do it?

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]]> https://medium.com/southern-winds/the-contrail-loophole-ae8ff936afb5?source=rss----39e917513342---4 https://medium.com/p/ae8ff936afb5 Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:14:30 GMT 2026-10-26T00:14:29.221Z <![CDATA[Can You Overthrow a Strongman Without Creating Another?]]>

Sixteen deaths started a revolt in Serbia. Now a student movement without a single leader is challenging a political system built around…

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]]> https://medium.com/southern-winds/can-you-overthrow-a-strongman-without-creating-another-a913f2264efe?source=rss----39e917513342---4 https://medium.com/p/a913f2264efe Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:27:02 GMT 2026-10-23T17:27:02.754Z <![CDATA[Overshoot Is Not Surrender (Just a Promise to Clean Up Later)]]>

Returning to the same temperature doesn’t mean returning to the same world

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]]> https://medium.com/southern-winds/overshoot-is-not-surrender-just-a-promise-to-clean-up-later-b74bc0ff8f28?source=rss----39e917513342---4 https://medium.com/p/b74bc0ff8f28 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:48:41 GMT 2026-10-23T16:48:41.428Z <![CDATA[France Loves Its Rebels (Once They Stop Making Demands)]]>

The republic teaches children that resistance helped win their rights. What happens when they take the lesson seriously?

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]]> https://medium.com/southern-winds/france-loves-its-rebels-once-they-stop-making-demands-2d66adfd296d?source=rss----39e917513342---4 https://medium.com/p/2d66adfd296d Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:21:47 GMT 2026-10-21T23:21:46.835Z <![CDATA[Ducks Are Made of Mud]]>

Waterfowlers built one of Earth’s great conservation stories by looking up. The warming prairie potholes now ask them to look down.

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]]> https://medium.com/southern-winds/ducks-are-made-of-mud-5a0cef82cc24?source=rss----39e917513342---4 https://medium.com/p/5a0cef82cc24 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:27:29 GMT 2026-10-28T12:00:06.373Z <![CDATA[China’s Growth Machine Started Making Slop]]>

The mayors’ tournament that gave the world the one-dollar lighter and the electric car just met a prize nobody has to buy.

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