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White House outlines plan to gut NOAA, smother climate research The agency’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research would be “eliminated as a line office,” according to a memo from the Office of Management and Budget.

"Key to the cutback is the elimination of NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which facilitates studies of the planet’s oceans, atmosphere, climate, weather patterns and other Earth systems."
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Hey Gen X and Millennial Travelers: You May Need Another Measles Vaccine | KQED Some people born in the 1970s and '80s, before current measles vaccination guidelines went into effect, may not be immune.

If you were born in the US between 1962 and 1989, you might need a measles booster (even if you were vaccinated).

@kqedscience.bsky.social that explains why.

I got my titer checked after reading the weekly newsletter from @lizneeley.bsky.social. Thank you, Liz!

www.kqed.org/news/1176791...

Science Data May Soon Vanish From Government Websites. Vast quantities of climate and environmental information have been removed from official websites in the past months. Scientists are trying keep it available.

"While a lot of data generated by agencies, like climate measurements...is required by Congress, the digital tools that allow the public to view that data are not.

“This is a campaign to remove public access,"" @jessiemahr.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/c...

So important to make the impacts relevant locally for our communities - thank you for writing this!

The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?

A great piece in the New Yorker on volunteer efforts to rescue the hundreds of thousands of government datasets that have been or could be deleted, featuring the Data Rescue Project (@datarescue.bsky.social)

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Mauna Loa Observatory I Exploratorium YouTube video by Exploratorium

And if you're interested in the scientists at NOAA's Mauna Loa Observatory and how they collect the data that helps us understand out planet, here is a great video from the Exploratorium

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jOA...

An older white man standing in front of a slide showing two graphs. Both are flat and then rise sharply. The title is "100 Year of CO2 and global warming." The graph on the left is temperature in the northern hemisphere; on the right it is C02 concentration.

Graphs are powerful.

The Keeling Curve - which shows CO2 data from Mauna Loa Observatory inspired "An Inconvenient Truth," the first time most heard of climate change.

When NOAA sites close, scientists don't just lose their eyes on the planet - we all do.

www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Mauna Loa Observatory’s Lease May End Because of NOAA Cuts NOAA, the nation’s leading climate science agency, may lose dozens of offices, including one that is key to the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.

You know that graph that got the world talking about climate change? It's based on data from a NOAA observatory that's on the list for possible closure....

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/c...

How do we communicate uncertainty in #dataviz? See leading viz researcher @lacepadilla.bsky.social present at #AAAS this Friday in Boston!
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