All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.
House SS&T Dems just issued a report re NASA and the FY2026 budget: "Mission Aborted: How NASA Illegally Implemented the President's Budget Request Without Congressional Approval." Calls on Isaacman to "defend" NASA and not do the same w/FY2027 request.
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My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service.
The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.
The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.
Science is good. We should fund it.
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.
Number of people involved in NSF activities From 305,400 (FY25) -> 94,100 (proposed) https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-2027-NSF-Budget-Request-to-Congress.pdf
The White House FY27 budget proposal is a clear indication that it seeks to diminish American leadership in science. As one telling example, the budget would drastically reduce the # of people involved in National Science Foundation activities by more than 200,000 (!!).
Publicly-funded science is a source of knowledge that is not under the sway of the executive. It is therefore a threat to their ability to shape/control narratives and declare 'truth' via executive order.
It produces meaning in shades of gray instead of the desired black/white absolutes.
I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.
It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.
If I read this reporting correctly, NSF is preparing to shut down SBE (social, behavioral, economic sciences) *in anticipation* of the FY27 budget, despite Congressional instructions that no directorate receive more than a 5% cut in FY26.
Trump regime again tries to shutter all NOAA labs in its 2027 White House budget. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
That's home. That's us.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world
Prominent climate researcher Kate Marvel is leaving NASA, citing US attacks on Science
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Map of U.S., from coolwx.com, showing locations currently experiencing record-breaking temperatures. There are countless such locations in the Western U.S., with hundreds of red dots (locations breaking daily record highs) and countless pink dots (locations breaking March monthly record highs). The region of record heat extends from the Pacific Coast to east the Mississippi River, and from Canada to Mexico. The region of red and pink dots is vastly larger even than yesterday's (or the day before, or the day before, or the day before, same as it ever was, same...as it ever was...).
Incredibly, even *more* locations across U.S. are today experiencing their warmest March temperatures on record--many by a wide margin, with some even breaking April records. This includes most or all of: AZ, UT, CO, NM, WY, NE, KS, MO, IA, plus portions of many other states. 🫠
The NOAA Global Ocean Monitoring & Observing Research Act was introduced Tuesday.
“AGU welcomes this bipartisan legislation as an important step to ensure U.S. science continues to serve & protect people at home and around the world," said @agu.org CEO Janice Lachance.
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For reference, the median taxpayer in the US contributes $100-150 per year towards ALL federal research and development…NASA, weather prediction, cancer treatments, climate science…everything.
(Which Trump, Republicans, and Elon said was wasteful…)
#Standupforscience
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This should be shocking to all Americans. Trump is approximately zeroing out federal funding for all science and engineering. How does that make America great exactly?
Jesus. Paying a French company a billion dollars *not* to build a wind farm.
For your consideration: Crowd funding for "The Sky is the Limit (NCAR--A documentary about a crown jewel of American science, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the peril it faces."
Wondering why NIH and NSF aren't making new grants? We explain what's happening at OMB. www.science.org/content/arti...
Just in: UCAR has filed a lawsuit against NSF, the Commerce Dept, NOAA, and OMB to prevent the dismantling of NCAR, alleging "violations of the Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act."
New Paper Alert. 3 former undergraduate students and I worked on this. We created indices that allow us to determine where tropical cyclone disasters are most likely to occur... Hint: It's not just coastal counties. Inland flooding is a major driver of #disaster!
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We're hiring?
*checks notes*
WE'RE HIRING!
Check out these opportunies to work at NCEI. I'm a "USA Jobs Survivor" so happy to impart wisdom (and rants) if you want them
www.usajobs.gov/job/861144500
AND
www.usajobs.gov/job/861144700
@neguse.house.gov is working to #saveNCAR - he has published an explosive whistleblower report that the Trump regime has already made a deal with a private corporate to take over NCAR's assets, putting the lie to the NSF request for comment due tomorrow.
Dismantling NCAR would undermine US national security, properity and health.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtBW...
I am literally at an NCAR-hosted, NCAR-led meeting where the future of U. S. radar meteorology - one of our most lifesaving enterprises - is being articulated by 180+ diverse participants. NSF NCAR is the only institution capable of convening our community so effectively.
