The Right Wants You Stupid The eternal quest to preserve the “pleasing illusions” that hold society and its authorities together.

This isn't accidental ignorance. It's strategic. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-right-wa...

The Right Wants You Stupid The eternal quest to preserve the “pleasing illusions” that hold society and its authorities together.

This isn't accidental ignorance. It's strategic. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-right-wa...

#Sinlaku is also the earliest Cat-4-or-stronger storm on record for any U.S. territory in any calendar year.

Which one is the better investment?

"climate change deniers are experiencing a triumphant resurgence in Mr. Trump’s Washington" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/c...

A regime of idiots: A complete inventory of Trump stooges They will remain, festering, awaiting the next opportunity for soul-selling.

"While the end point is unclear, Trump’s would-be dictatorship is politically broken. And as Trump’s mental and physical dissipation increases by the day, it’s increasingly important to focus on the network of stooges that have built and sustained his regime." — @davidrlurie.com

Opinion | NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess

"Reasonable people can disagree on what should be done to limit the effects of climate change. But rather than debate policy, the administration has chosen to attack science itself." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

Let’s not forget that Donald Trump threatened to destroy an entire civilization. We move so quickly through our insane new cycles. But this outrage should be a keeper and not cast quickly to the side because Trump again decided not to make good on an absurd and extreme threat.

Yes, one in March 2026. Assigned within days of author verification but that can take a while, particularly in cases of old/incorrect co-author email addresses being specified.

I can't believe we have reached this point, but this bears crystal clear emphasis: Our global climate system ensures that even "limited" use of lower-yield "tactical" nuclear weapons against civilian or industrial targets would have major regional-to-global scale consequences.

Earth seen from Artemis II, reminiscent of the "Blue Marble" image.

The lunar surface occupies the left of the frame, while Earth in the background is mostly shadowed

Earthset as the Artemis mission travels around the moon.

Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth. Credit: NASA

We’ll be tracking the aerial assets in place to welcome the Artemis II crew home on Friday, but for the moment, just enjoy some of the amazing images captured by the crew so far. See all of the images posted by NASA at www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

A reminder that the Heritage Foundation architected Project 2025 with Viktor Orbán in mind. Kevin Roberts called modern Hungary “the model” for conservative statecraft.

Far-right authoritarianism is a globally collaborative movement.

To state the blatantly obvious: attacking federal researchers does 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 eliminate 👏🏻 the critical issues being studied. Climate change, health crises, & extreme weather affect ALL of us.

If you are a scientist being targeted for your work, reach out for a free, confidential 1:1. csldf.org/contact

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

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.

This is the worst kind of “both-siderism”.

A better headline would be:

“FEMA Official is Clearly Troubled, Perhaps Delusional.

Family, Friends, Colleagues, and Entire Nation Concerned.”

California just hit an inflection point for batteries — Fast Company California’s electric grid just broke a new record, providing as much power during peak demand as six Hoover Dams. Technicians install equipment at a Solar Power/Battery Energy Storage System in San B...

California - not dreaming’: “At 7pm on March 29, batteries provided 12.3 gigawatts of power—roughly as much as six Hoover Dams, or around 43% of the total demand on the grid.”

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‘On a whole other level’: rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists — Guardian US Experts say brutal March heat has left critical snowpack at record-low levels – and key basins in uncharted territory

This is what human-caused climate change looks like: “brutal March heat has left critical snowpack at record-low levels – and key basins in uncharted territory”
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Night Into Day The thing changing the world this year is...batteries.

This looks like a complicated chart, but in fact it's some of the simplest and best news imaginable: batteries are quickly turning night into noon. Worth a read if I say so myself
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from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.

Group that runs Boulder’s NCAR climate lab sues Trump administration over plan to dismantle it Lawsuit alleges federal effort to break up climate research center is retaliation against Colorado after Gov. Jared Polis refused clemency for election official Tina Peters.

A nice summary of Trump’s attempts to extort Polis via NCAR here. Reminder: No Kings protests are on Saturday.
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Large oil refinery explosion near Texas coast forces residents to shelter in place Officials say a large explosion at an oil refinery near the Texas coast has shot plumes of smoke into the air and forced nearby residents to shelter in place.

I’d rather live next to wind turbines and solar panels.

When I realized many years ago that Scalia, revered by conservatives as an intellect on the level of Da Vinci or Einstein, was formulating his legal arguments by listening to right-wing talk radio like Limbaugh and Bennett, it was a real scales-fall-from-the-eyes moment. These guys are just hacks.

Map of current CoAgMET temperatures on the afternoon of March 19, 2026. They are far above average for mid-March across the entire state. From https://coagmet.colostate.edu/

“March”

#CurryFiles released!
By court order (via @ucs.org & @envdefensefund.bsky.social) 100K+ pages of document have been released, detailing effort by Judith Curry/John Christy/Steven Koonin/Ross McKitrick /Roy Spencer to discredit scientific case for federal climate action:
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"Today UCAR filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado against the U.S. NSF, NOAA, DOC, OMB, and their respective directors in their official capacities." news.ucar.edu/133061/ucar-...

The Latest on Trump's Assault on NCAR, America's Preeminent Atmospheric Science Center I first visited the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, late in 1984, while reporting my first magazine cover story, on the prospect of a nuclear winter following a nuclear ...

"Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing is only marginally more grotesque than his plan to punish Colorado Democrats and piss on climate science by dismembering this fabled hub for atmospheric science" revkin.substack.com/p/the-latest...

Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today.

You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

10 Signs of Fascism. America Has All of Them. YouTube video by Rutger Bregman

I made a video about fascism in America.
Not as an insult. As a clinical diagnosis -->

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"There are groups that would rather not have climate change discussed knowledgeably in the courts, and after the publication of the 4th Edition of the manual, the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee started sending threatening letters to all involved" www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...