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🌡️Every single weather station we have recorded the warmest March on record. Most would have been the warmest April too. More sites below🧵 https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/2039348328870129861
A Climate Central graphic showing Western U.S. water stored in snow pack (snow water equivalent (% of normal)) from 1981 to 2026.
"The amount of water stored in western U.S. snowpack is currently the lowest on record for April 1, when it's usually near the annual peak."
See @climatecentral.org's latest Climate Matters on the historic snow drought: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
Introducing the @heatmap.news and @mit.edu Electricity Hub, our new zip code-level look at what exactly you’re paying for on your electricity bill and how it stacks up against … anyone or everyone else: electricity.heatmap.news
‘Snow-Eater’ Heat Wave Behind Big Sierra Melt Is a Look at Our Climate Future
“Without a long-term warming trend, these events were previously either unlikely or statistically impossible. We kind of unlock that possibility”
@kqednews.kqed.org @kqedscience.bsky.social
www.kqed.org/science/2000...
This glossary provides simple definitions of scientific terminology for lawyers to understand these concepts in legal contexts. Hopefully this will be a helpful tool for translating disciplinary knowledge between these communities.
And it's live! Was great contributing to this glossary with @ucsclimate.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social and @nyulaw.bsky.social
Climate Science in Legal Contexts: A Glossary of Key Terms for Lawyers www.ucs.org/resources/cl...
NASA worldview imagery of the Sierra Nevada
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🥵Absolutely bonkers.
As of 2pm CDT, nearly 200 locations across the U.S. have broken or tied their daily heat record for March 20th.
45 of these have also set all-time March records.
Another ~85 are within 3° of breaking theirs before the day ends.
Today’s action “is a rejection of the most basic laws of physics”, says #climate scientist Friederike Otto.
I report on the EPA revoking its own ruling on the danger of greenhouse gases:
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
While Zillow is removing its climate risk data from public view, the first truly open climate risk database.
Kudos, @carbonplan.org
"A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming."
Gift link.
Very exciting to share that @climatecentral.org is hiring a Climate Data Scientist to join a new climate services effort focused on advancing predictions of risks and hazards on seasonal-to-decadal timescales. The application closes on February 9, 2026 at 5pm ET, & the description can be found here:
No problem, and sorry I wasn't able to meet you in person! Fun side note -- my mom loves geology so I gave her one of your volcano tissue boxes for Christmas (she loved it)!
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
New in @globalchangebio.bsky.social: thoughts from me & Jilmarie Stephens on recent study confirming that vegetation accumulation-to-desiccation cycles induced by wet-to-dry climate transitions increase wildfire severity in California's non-forested biomes. onlinelibrary.wiley....
And now there's officially a Tornado Warning out for Santa Cruz County for this offshore mini-supercell thunderstorm, which is likely producing a waterspout over water that could move inland as a tornado near Santa Cruz. #CAwx
The next National Climate Assessment will be written by five climate deniers and an AI in a trench coat.
Please read
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
🚨 Calling all geoscientists 🚨 If you or anyone you know is attending #AGU25, please join us and spread the word to #SaveNCAR.
More info at: wclivestream.com/ncar_at_agu/
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
If you're at #AGU25 next week, hope to see you there!
carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability
Next week at #AGU25. GC14C-06, Monday at 5:10.
A number of new estimates of current policy warming by 2100 have been released in recent months, including three prominent ones from UNEP, IEA, and CAT in the run-up to COP30.
I've got a new piece over at The Climate Brink digging into the details: www.theclimatebrink....
And yet we keep wondering why these conferences don’t get anywhere
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is a fantastic article on the reliability compromises that are being created by wildfire safety interventions in rural California. A must read. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...
Map of US with purple and blue icons over central US indicating severe weather billion dollar disaster events in 2025 and one fire in LA.
The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset is back and now at @climatecentral.org!
Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2
www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond.
Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...
