“NCAR has played a greater role in advancing weather prediction & atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world,” says @weatherwest.bsky.social
Dismantling NCAR would be “like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.” KH
"And then the temperature started going down like a rock."
The current administration has claimed renewables are making the grid less reliable. If that were the case, I'd expect states adding the most renewables over the past decade to have the largest increase in outages.
However, the opposite seems to be true!
But Zeldy says greenhouse gasses aren't dangerous.
Is sea level around the US accelerating? If you actually do the analysis, instead of just repeating talking points from decades ago, the answer is yes.
tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...
On The Climate Brink, Zeke Hausfather explains how the recent DOE climate report, written by climate contrarians, misrepresents his work.
www.theclimatebrink....
Executive summary: 24-hour extremes, in frequency and amount of rain, are increasing more than at the hourly scale, but this begins to break down regionally when more stringent definitions of extremes are used.
We looked at changes to extreme precip events across the eastern US. While it should come as no surprise that they are increasing in both frequency and total amount of rainfall, we wanted to look at how these are changing across a spectrum of extremes and at different time scales.
New work in Water Resources Research by me and Art DeGaetano.
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I can’t find a better word than devastating for what’s happening to the next generation of scientists and early career researchers (soft money, lack of tenure)
Every day brings something new, and the real funding fall-out (I think) is to come as existing grants run out. Recovery could take decades
Question from a livestream viewer: “How many lives are collectively impacted by [NOAA's] monitoring and rapid response work.”
John Cortinas: “I don’t have any exact numbers, but I would probably start by saying the entire population of the United States…"
Calling all US meteorologists and climate scientists! Starting May 28th, we will be holding a marathon livestream to share our work with the public and show why the services we provide should not be cut. Learn more & sign up to speak here (and please share!)
Yeahhh, nah.
Can confirm that Atlas 14 data, which is critical to my extreme precipitation work, is currently down. I do not know why.
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
What's at stake for the #KeelingCurve if NOAA gets dismantled. A take in @thebulletin.org from Ralph Keeling and Eric Morgan of @scrippsocean.bsky.social: thebulletin.org/2025/05/how-...
Looking for a detailed breakdown of how federal science agencies fare in President Trump's FY 2026 budget request?
Check out this break down from @agu.org's Science Policy team. thebridge.agu.org/2025/05/05/t...
Update: “Two major US scientific societies have announced they will join forces to produce peer-reviewed research on the climate crisis’s impact days after Donald Trump’s administration dismissed contributors to a key Congress-mandated report on climate crisis preparedness.”
The Trump administration is targeting top climate and weather labs for cuts. Insiders worry about the impact on research and NOAA's ability to forecast severe weather like hurricanes and tornadoes.
Can we have just one day of peace?
GOOD NEWS - "Thank you to everyone who expressed their strong support for the Regional Climate Center program. Our funding has been restored by NOAA and the Department of Commerce." www.ncei.noaa.gov/regional/reg...
What an unmitigated disaster this is
Excellent blog post from my friend and former lab-mate @marc-alessi.bsky.social
We are witnessing the dismantling of NOAA--the United States' best defense against extreme weather, the climate crisis, and, simply, the prediction of day-to-day weather--in real time. This will damage the scientific infrastructure in the US for decades. blog.ucs.org/marc-alessi/...
Wouldn't want to be working for a Regional Climate Center right now...oh, shit.
BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
The thing about tools like cli-MATE and ACIS is not that the data won't exist (not yet at least). It's that they make getting the information you want so...efficient.
Can I write some code to do the same task? Sure, but not everyone can, and why should we need to when a great tool already exists?
Yep, I still don't think people realize how dire the situation actually is internally...
