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Chris Lawrence

@chrislaw08.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Artemis II is headed for the moon! GOES-19 caught this amazing view of the exhaust plume from the rocket as it launched from Cape Canaveral.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 31/07/2025
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder. Here’s how to use RSS. www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
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Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/06/2025
The suit includes the legal definition of Shrek
Shrek's namesake character is a large, bald, dull-green ogre with a broad,
round face, brown eyes, and highly distinctive trumpet-shaped ears. Shrek typically wears crude clothing consisting of a canvas-like shirt, a leather vest, and brown leggings.
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Last day at the GISS building (Wed. May 28th). 🥲
Photo of the a large group of GISS employees/colleagues in front of Toms Restaurant with a prominent street sign saying "112th St" taken from the middle of Broadway. Credit: Tricia Baron.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 14/05/2025
23. National Weather Service scrambling to re-fill positions vacated by DOGE (May 14, 2025)
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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
new gender neutral greeting just dropped
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
NASA is canceling the lease of its NYC climate center, made famous when its first-floor diner, Tom's, appeared o̶n̶ ̶"̶S̶e̶i̶n̶f̶e̶l̶d̶"̶ in a Suzanne Vega song. Staff are expected to work remotely until a new space is found. 🎁🔗 with @lorengrush.bsky.social : www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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NASA Cancels Columbia University Lease for Climate Science Unit
NASA is canceling the lease of its New York City climate science unit that has occupied the same Columbia University-owned building since the 1960s.
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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 17/04/2025
The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences. Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC
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Stand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is Now
The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.
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Chris Lawrence @chrislaw08.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Anyone have a link to the actual paper? Seems the link in the article is incorrect
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
👀 A little birdie may have told me that Split Ticket's unreleased modeling of the current EV electorate in WI is Crawford +12.
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GingerOfOz @gingerofoz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I built a Playstacean!
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
Chart showing double the number of protests in 2025 than occurred during the same time period in 2017.
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Chris Lawrence @chrislaw08.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Yeah no good options here. The CR making it out of the house was not ideal for the Dems. I can still see the case for why the shutdown should happen, but at this point if the house can pass stuff, Dems have limited tools at their disposal.
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Chris Lawrence @chrislaw08.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A question that isn't obvious to me. It makes sense why Dems should vote against cloture on the CR. The impoundment stuff really sucks. What's the plan after the shutdown? Hope that Dems don't get the blame for the shutdown and then see if Republicans will do the clean CR or end the DOGE nonsense?
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Nat Bullard @nathanielbullard.com · 03/03/2025
The US generated more power from wind and solar in 2024, than from coal. (data: EIA Electricity Data Browser)
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I’ll leave you with pics of Pettersen and her child, and Mullin, who had an IV on the plane all the way back to DC for the vote
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Adam Deitsch □ @adamosphere.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
On that subject, here's a great paper from @chrislaw08.bsky.social on changes in cloud water chemistry at Whiteface Mountain over the years. 🧪
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Long-term monitoring of cloud water chemistry at Whiteface Mountain: the emergence of a new chemical regime
Abstract. Atmospheric aqueous chemistry can have profound effects on our environment. The importance of chemistry within the atmospheric aqueous phase started gaining widespread attention in the 1970s...
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 04/02/2025
i'm absolutely not kidding, watching this will make you feel a little better
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it. Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice. But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word. They aren’t firing for a reason.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Looking for a way to honor the late President Carter? This sheet pan peanut brittle will have your guests singing Hail to the Chef!
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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Thank you, Jimmy Carter. This chart is on a log scale. This year there have been just 7 cases of guinea worm. ourworldindata.org/grapher/numb...
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
If I would be dictator for a day, I would mandate that you are only allowed to published graphs that show the full range of the y-axis.
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Governor Hochul has signed New York’s “climate superfund” law, which seeks to recoup $75 billion from fossil fuel companies over the next 25 years to fund climate adaptation projects: gothamist.com/news/climate...
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'Climate superfund’ could make NY more resilient, but industry groups may try to block it
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill requiring major fossil fuel companies to pay into a fund for climate adaptation projects.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
“If you’re not depressed you’re not paying attention” no, depression is not a natural outgrowth of simply observing the world, actually.
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Chris Lawrence @chrislaw08.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
And here is a playlist of my favorite songs of 2024 (not including tracks from the incredible Cindy Lee album, Diamond Jubilee) open.spotify.com/playlist/1qI...
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Top Songs of 2024
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Chris Lawrence @chrislaw08.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Every year, I collect my favorite albums and songs into list that I compile onto a blog sort of a thing. I figured it’d be worth sharing on bluesky. Here are my favorite albums of 2024. Please excuse the typos found in the blog. Still cleaning things larrysfavoritemusic.github.io/Blog/lists/2...
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Top 25 Albums of 2024 – Larry Loves Music
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Thomas Frölicher @froeltho.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
🚨Paper alert: The adaptive emission reduction approach was used to simulate 1.5°C & 2°C temperature stabilization in 13 Earth system models. Key findings: remaining carbon budgets 60% larger than in IPCC AR6, budgets evolve over time, pos. emissions under stabilized warming doi.org/10.5194/esd-...
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AERA-MIP: emission pathways, remaining budgets, and carbon cycle dynamics compatible with 1.5 and 2 °C global warming stabilization
Abstract. While international climate policies now focus on limiting global warming to well below 2 °C or pursuing a 1.5 °C level of global warming, the climate modelling community has not provided an...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
It has been a, uh, difficult week but I have not laughed louder and harder at something in a very long time than at this.
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Chris Lawrence @chrislaw08.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Biogenic emissions are a clear source of organic acids, but it is clear that their sources are not well understood nor are there many cloud water datasets that measure them. As these acids are expected to be important in atmospheric chemistry as sulfate decreases, this chemistry needs to be studied
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Chris Lawrence @chrislaw08.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Oxalic acid does not have any known gas phase sources, but is there is considerable evidence of its formation within cloud droplets. Using the same gas+aqueous box model, we see considerable cloud production of oxalic acid, with the organic gas glyoxal serving as a key precursor
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Chris Lawrence @chrislaw08.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
It is possible that cloud chemistry is one of the missing sources. We then employ a simple gas+aqueous chemistry box model at the summit of WFM to see if aqueous chemistry is a plausible missing source. However, there is no change in CH3COOH concentrations, and HCOOH is actually removed faster!
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Chris Lawrence @chrislaw08.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Isoprene and oxidation products were key sources for both HCOOH and CH3COOH according to the chemical box modeling. However, when comparing model results to gas phase estimates based on WFM cloud water, both organic acids where underestimated by ~10x, suggesting missing chemical sources
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Chris Lawrence @chrislaw08.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The airmass that impacted Whiteface Mountain (WFM) originated from central Missouri, a region of high biogenic VOC emissions like isoprene, and likely experienced influence of anthropogenic NOx emissions from the Chicago Metro area
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Chris Lawrence @chrislaw08.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
As these acids grow in importance, it is critical we understand the chemistry that controls them. For this study, we use a combination of WRF-Chem and Lagrangian chemical box modeling to simulate unusually high concentrations of organic acids measured in Whiteface cloud water on July 1-2, 2018
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Chris Lawrence @chrislaw08.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Organic acids like formic (HCOOH), acetic (CH3COOH) or oxalic acid are among the most commonly found organic acids in the atmosphere. They can be an important source of acidity in clouds and rain, especially as many parts of the world reduce their sulfur emissions, but their chemistry is complex
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Chris Lawrence @chrislaw08.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Creating my first bluesky post (or skeet?) to share my newest research article published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. This works attempts to study the gas and aqueous chemistry forming the increasingly important class of organic acids. acp.copernicus.org/articles/24/...
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Process analysis of elevated concentrations of organic acids at Whiteface Mountain, New York
Abstract. Organic acids represent an important class of compounds in the atmosphere, but there is limited research investigating their chemical production, particularly in the northeast United States....
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Alina K. @alinaekim.com · 09/12/2024
the editors at @unwinnable.com let me write about that journalist duo from pokemon emerald !! unwinnable.com/2024/12/09/c...
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Chasing Nothingburgers? - Unwinnable
SCOOP! EXCLUSIVE! BREAKING (derogatory)! With love from Pokémon Emerald.
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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
There's a strong inverse relationship between median household income and zero-car households in Chicago at the tract level, unless you live within a half-mile of an 'L' station. In other words, rich people will ditch their cars if they can walk to the train.
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 02/12/2024
On The Climate Brink: Stop emissions, stop warming: A climate reality check This is a crucial point because it determines how much warming is already "locked in" and effectively unavoidable. The answer is very little warming is locked in. Also, this is our 100th post! www.theclimatebrink....
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Stop emissions, stop warming: A climate reality check
Why future warming isn't as "locked in" as you might think
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