A reminder that the literal *opposite* of whatever Donald Trump (and his GOP enablers) say is usually true:

No.

Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Initiative | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two peop...

It will be interesting to see who applies for the Flat Earth Professorship in Earth and Planetary Science
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Back when the breeze was easy, the beer was cheap, & the biggest worry was whether the tide was coming in or going out. The tropics in the ‘70s and ‘80s had a rhythm all their own—steel drums in the distance, salt in the air, Jimmy singing his songs, & a world that somehow felt a lot more fun.

Line graph time series of 2026's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2025. 2026 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between March and May by looking at the decadal average line positions.

Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 3rd lowest on record (JAXA data)...

• about 480,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 800,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,260,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,830,000 km² below the 1980s mean

More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Colossal's Ben Lamm Says Invasive Species Is a $5.4 Trillion Problem. Here's His Solution Invasive species represent a $5.4 trillion global problem, with U.S. economic impact alone exceeding $500 billion annually. That’s according to Ben Lamm, CEO of Colossal Biosciences. On episode 245 of...

247wallst.com/investing/20...

We have now blasted past the boundaries of politics and plunged headfirst into a surreal, upside-down dimension where logic has packed its bags, reason has fled the scene, and sheer absurdity now reigns supreme. What once seemed unthinkable has become routine in this unfolding theater of madness.

Can you say $6.00 a gallon for regular gas? I can’t help but wonder if this turmoil might carry a silver lining—accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels and pushing the world more quickly toward clean energy.

Time series showing Southwest U.S. maximum temperatures from 1895 to 2026, which is a long-term warming trend and record for 2026.

Sooooo, the Southwest U.S. was more than 5°F warmer than the previous March record high for maximum (daytime) temperatures.... 🫠

Graphic from www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...

I always thought we were the good guys who believed in truth, honor, personal integrity, and humanitarianism. Given our present state of affairs, It now looks like I was misinformed.

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com

Likely the worst El Niño in 140 years. Harvests will be bad even without a fertilizer crisis. GOP will head to elections with scorching food inflation. And they will blame Belgium for not opening Hormuz. And 35% of Americans will be very angry at Belgium.

Re: Teleporting into a Waffle House — I’m not convinced even the fall of the Roman Empire reached this level of dumbness.

I sometimes feel like I’ve been living inside a single, endless AI-generated episode of The Twilight Zone—as if the original version of the world shut down around 2016 and a stranger, increasingly absurd update has been running ever since. How else do you make sense of everything happening now?

Another stunning day in the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge.

A Once-in-a-4,433-Year Heat Wave Is Hitting the Western U.S. The consequences will linger well past the high temperatures.

"To make matters worse, “this week is exacerbating conditions that were already bad,” Labe said." - via @heatmap.news

Pure escapism biking and birding out in the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge during these trying times.

Hard to believe it was 50 years ago. I was in grad school back then and recall reading a film journal story in the university library about a new science fiction film in production that was making their space technology look used as opposed to 2001–A Space Odyssey where everything looked new.

Graph of Earth's energy imbalance from the 1970s to present for three different datasets and measured in Watts per squared metre. There is a long-term increasing trend.

The World Meteorological Organization report on the State of the Global Climate 2025 was released today:

"Earth's energy imbalance has been growing since the 1960s, reaching a record high in 2025."

"Extreme weather impacts millions and costs billions."

Press release: wmo.int/news/media-c...

An El Niño is brewing And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight.

"I would say: if you’d bet against him (climate scientist Dr. James E. Hansen) over the years, you’d have gone broke."
– Bill McKibben
#GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...

When every city in your state breaks their all-time March record high temperatures before noon! At least the morning coffee is good.. ☕ #COwx #Colorado #AllWesternStates

Line graph time series of 2026's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2025. 2026 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between February and April by looking at the decadal average line positions.

🚨 Ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data)...

• about 640,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,050,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,460,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,950,000 km² below the 1980s mean

More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study - Carbon Brief An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before...

I'm not suggesting this is an open secret within the climate science community, but it's remarkable how little impact this sort of research is generating. Because if the rate of warming really has *doubled* then you can kiss goodbye to 2°C. www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...

Not asked by Gallup. Google it.

Investigating the Causes of an Extinction Catastrophe: Controlling Introduced Predators Remains Essential for Conserving Australia’s Mammals Abstract. At least 40 Australian mammal spcies have been driven to extinction since European colonization in 1788. For conservation management to be effect

academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

A bullsh!t essay that has little basis in reality.

Wild pigs, giant goldfish and bugs that won't die: Invaders 'absolutely everywhere' in Canada How can we manage the species that are devastating Canada's natural ecosystems and shouldn't even be here?

nationalpost.com/feature/wild...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Essentially, climate change is warming the Arctic, spurring algae growth that darkens ice, speeds melting, and accelerates sea level rise—leaving coastal communities worldwide at risk of going “gurgle, gurgle.”

Who knew? 😂😂😂😂

The Keeling Curve The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

428.45 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 23-Jan-2026
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu