The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for its tracking of hate groups, said that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the nonprofit regarding their use of informants.
'The NSF has only committed $500 million of the $8 billion it was appropriated for the fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1. The NSF will lose the billions of remaining funding if it does not spend it by Sept. 30.' thehill.com/homenews/adm...
3 maps of 500 hPa vorticity, winds, and heights for 0 UTC, 21 April 2026. Left panel shows observations, middle panel shows the contribution just due to the vorticity feature over eastern North America, right panel shows the contribution just due to the vorticity feature over the North Atlantic.
Separating out the influence of individual features in today's weather: left panel is observations, middle panel is the contribution just due to the trough over the eastern US, and right panel is the contribution due to the low over the North Atlantic.
Three cool scientists introduce their work "Our new theory has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, but we feel its depths and intricacies are best appreciated on the limited-edition vinyl release."
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.
(Published Dec. 2024)
We're tracing U.S. fossil fascism in a quick 3-part @drilledmedia.bsky.social miniseries (ep 2 drops tomorrow), from WWI to the Red Line Agreement to now. Important context for the current moment! drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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The current 3-month, Jan-Mar, Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) value of -2.53 for the Contiguous U.S. (single average) is not only the lowest Jan-Mar SPI value since at least 1950, it's the lowest 3-month SPI (any 3-month period) since Dec-Feb 1975-76.
wrote about unc, and the way that the internet works as an accelerator of cultural appropriation aftermath.site/unc-aave-afr...
PPT slide showing two images, one for an idealized vort max, and one for an observed vort max. In both cases, the winds and height field calculated from the vorticity are shown. In the observed case, the calculated winds and heights are compared to the full fields.
Calculating heights and winds from vorticity, for an idealized case (left) and this morning's weather (right)
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
A man who was deported after being released from a Massachusetts state prison wonders how the state can justify working in partnership with ICE. “The governor has the power to hold back. But they played a role to allow this to happen to me.”
She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.
But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.
AGU is now accepting applications for Editors-in-Chief across six publications, with terms starting Jan 1, 2027. These roles help shape editorial standards, research quality, and peer review in Earth & space science. Apply by May 1, 2026.
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a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries
a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries
New @stand.earth: Microsoft's 3 new gas data centres will
- Increase Microsoft's emissions 160%
- Have higher emissions than power sectors of each of Greece, Ireland, Sri Lanka, NZ etc...
- Have higher emissions than pwr sector of 15 lowest-emitting countries combined
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GFS is the main global weather forecast model for the US.
3D view of 10 hPa geopotential heights for 06 UTC 14 April 2026, from the GFS.
The GFS tends to ring like a bell in response to strong tropical cyclones. Here's a 3D view of the pressure pattern in the mid-stratosphere, about 30 km above the surface. 🧪 @blender.org
You may not think you’ve ever relied on the Wayback Machine, but chances are pretty good you have at least indirectly.
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A map of the states eligible to apply for ProPublica's 50 State Initiative
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A count of how many of the 12 calendar months show a warming trend during the last 75 years. Pro-tip: focusing on the wide extent of the dark red is a better use of your time than focusing on the small area of blue. Also, there is a known problem with the Great Lakes temperature data.
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.
I know there are definitely some entirely justified trust issues around science and its role in society, but I also think it’s easier for important programs to get defunded without outcry if folks aren’t aware of the benefits that research provide us.
Tropical Cyclone Maila continues to spin in the Solomon Sea, while Tropical Cyclone Vaianu is undergoing subtropical transition just north of New Zealand.
To the north of the equator, newly-formed Tropical Storm Sinlaku is steadily intensifying.
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We're now at 17 months in a row for setting a new record high for the 36-month running average for global (60S-60N) Total Column Precipitable Water.
In other words, the atmosphere is now holding more water vapor than ever before in recorded history.
“If you read that New York Times article on my resignation, some guy I’ve never met who’s calling me “Kate” — I guess we’re on first-name terms, guy I’ve never met — he’s saying it’s all the scientists’ fault.“ 😂
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois
Brutal.
Fossil-fuel interests use criticism of high-emissions scenarios to delegitimate climate scientists and deny the need to decarbonize.
That's a historical fact I document in The Language of Climate Politics, in the chapter about the propaganda that climate advocates are "alarmists."
Excerpt here👇
