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Gavin Schmidt

@climateofgavin.bsky.social
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Climate scientist, juggler. Bikes etc. Blogging at www.realclimate.org - data visualization, explainers, and debunking.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 40m
Not only are the flat earthers wrong, they are getting wronger by the day.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 11h
There is no way to fairly or humanely administer the death penalty. Never has been, never will be.
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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 30/09/2026
Wow! Here’s audio of Judith Jarvis Thomson introducing the Trolley Problem. Bonus: “The” Trolley Problem probably isn’t what you thought it was. youtu.be/V-CAEhBBTp0?...
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The Trolley Problem - Judith Jarvis Thomson (1978)
YouTube video by Philosophy Overdose
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Patrick Meighan @patsweetpat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HOLY CRAP, YOU GUYS, THEY DID FIND IT!!! (no soft pretzel, though) www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4epJb...
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Senate In Session on Instagram: "We found the receipts. . . . . . @senericschmitt #jacksmith #proof #senate #hawkeyes #womenscollegebasketball"
2,153 likes, 182 comments - senateinsession on September 29, 2026: "We found the receipts. . . . . . @senericschmitt #jacksmith #proof #senate #hawkeyes #womenscollegebasketball".
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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J Mark Dodds FRSA @jmarkdodds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SPEAKING of @camraofficial.bsky.social and beer fans' success against big corporate - you'll be interested to see how social data scientist @laurenleek.eu exposed the #GreatBritishPubcoScam masterfully The data don't lie: BEER NEEDS PUBS laurenleek.substack.com/p/britain-lo...
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Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?
How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ex-USGCRP folks have thoughts... www.climate.us/news-feature...
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A response from former USGCRP leaders on proposal to revise the Fifth National Climate Assessment
Former executive director of the U.S. Global Change Science Program and several colleagues describe the rigor of the process that produced NCA5.
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Natassa Romanou @aromanou.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hello Physical Oceanographers! Columbia University in New York City is seeking candidates for tenure track Assistant Professor level position, with special interest for combined PhysO and AI expertise. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/194070
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tell me that you don’t understand insurance without saying you don’t understand insurance… 🤦
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NYC SKY LOOKIN GORGEOUS RN GO LOOK AT THE SKY
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How Should We Cover the Climate Story? Very kind of @columjournreview.bsky.social to include my thoughts alongside a bunch of esteemed journalists! @katbagley.bsky.social @sominisengupta.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @emorwee.bsky.social @vernonloeb.bsky.social www.cjr.org/feature/how-...
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How should we cover the climate story?
Speaking with climate reporters about staying on the beat—because, as Bill McKibben put it, “for better or for worse, by this time next year, there’s no doubt in my mind that climate coverage will be ...
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don’t know why, but something about the one-two punch here strikes me as morbidly hilarious in a cosmic sort of way.
An engineer on the Claude AI subreddit explains his frustrations with artificial intelligence’s impact on his job  Claude responds with the most AI summary to ever AI summary
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dispatch from inside the US National Science Foundation…
Me: Are you still at NSF

Reply: Yup. *Emoji indicating house on fire*
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Berkeley Earth will be holding our monthly climate briefing on Thursday. Safe to say that there is a lot going on with weather and climate the moment. 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET / 5 PM CET It is geared towards the media, but anyone is welcome. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Press briefing announcement cover image.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 21/09/2026
NEW – Analysis: ‘Super El Niño’ reaches ‘remarkable’ all-time record ✍️ Written by @zekehausfather.com Read here: buff.ly/4a9XUAK
Daily Niño 3.4 sea surface temperature anomalies, 1982-2026, each relative to a centred 30-year climatology (ONI convention). Chart by Carbon Brief.
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US CLIVAR @usclivar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you are planning to analyze CMIP7 Assessment Fast Track simulations, register to attend a CMIP7 Analysis Workshop! Each virtual workshop will focus on a fundamental CMIP7 science question. Learn more and register. wcrp-cmip.org/registration...
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Registration Open for CMIP7 Analysis Workshops - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
We are pleased to invite the climate modelling community to participate in the CMIP7 Analysis Workshops, a new series of community-led virtual workshops
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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
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AI Has Poisoned Everything
YouTube video by Cool Worlds
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
i hate it @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social, please kill this
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Joshua Low @joshuaklow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
With thousands of sessions happening across #ClimateWeekNYC, it’s easy for communications, public engagement, and climate education to get lost in the noise. That is why I have searched high and low to put together this calendar of climate comms events: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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2026 Climate Week NYC Climate Comms Events
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My hot take on AI and climate change is that I would not like to be killed by either of them
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
One in three new car purchases in Europe is now an EV. 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋 autoigloo.com/europes-ev-s...
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Europe’s EV Share Jumps to 30.5% as Electric-Car Sales Blow Past Forecasts - AutoIgloo
Europe’s electric-car market has shifted from steady growth to a much sharper acceleration. Battery-electric vehicles captured 30.5% of new-car registrations
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 19/09/2026
3. Media make general public and policy makers think language models are doing socially useful things beyond paper pushing. 4. Inflate bubble. 5. Pop.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 19/09/2026
1. Researchers seeking funding start using “artificial intelligence” as a synonym for “statistical model.” 2. Big Tech convinces the public and policymakers that “artificial intelligence” is synonymous with “large language models”….
New York Times headline:

“How AI aids in rebuilding sandy shores”
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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory @lamont.columbia.edu · 17/09/2026
Methane emissions in the NYC-metro area are largely from natural gas, but these emissions represent a substantial amount of fuel consumers are paying for but not using, finds a new study led by PhD student and @lamont.columbia.edu climate researcher Yuwei Zhao: bit.ly/4h4G2Rb
Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges on the East River, New York City, with Queens and Manhattan at top and bottom, 1981. Credit: GeorgeLouis, English Wikipedia
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Sarah Hansen @96485.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A fig grows in Harlem.
Yellowed fall fig tree leaves with a deep red/brown fig and city buildings in the background.
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Facts worth repeating: It would be cheaper to pay the ~40,000 or so people employed by the coal industry $1M a year to do nothing than to pay for the health damages (not including climate change) caused by burning coal in the U.S. publichealth.hsc.wvu.edu/news/story?h...
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Counting up the costs of coal
Regular readers know that WVU’s Dr. Michael Hendryx has done work on that issue (subscription required), reporting that:
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The US EPA everyone! Emissions from power generation accounts for 25% to 30% of US GHG emissions. Models show that greenhouse gas emissions cause climate change. And, if all 'carbon dioxides' were indeed eliminated tomorrow, the Earth would rapidly turn into a snowball. www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 16/09/2026
the hardest thing for the politician-bureaucrats to understand -- but which NSF staff *absolutely do* understand and always have -- is that you actually make scientific progress by giving young people money and promising not to bother them
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NASA GISTEMP/IRI are debuting a new web page for predictions for the annual mean temperature level and what we can expect next year. data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/gmsta/
GISTEMP history from 1980 with estimates for 2026 from two statistical models and the NMME initialized ensemble. Also an estimate for 2027 based on projected ENSO.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If you care about Earth science in the US, please sign up for the NSF GEO virtual office hour Sept 15 with GEO directorate head Joydip Kundu! NSF leadership needs to hear directly that people care and are concerned about GEO. Maxxing out their Zoom tier sends a message. www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-g...
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NSF GEO Virtual Office Hour: Updates from the NSF Directorate for Geosciences
Join directorate leadership for updates and information.
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#stampsubskeet
Section of the Bayeux tapestry showing the battle of Hastings (GB #477) from 1966.
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NPR @npr.org · 10/09/2026
The European climate service Copernicus said the Earth just sweltered through its hottest month on record in August. Scientists said the heat surge is mostly due to human-caused climate change. n.pr/4gP8SVu
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Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured
The European climate service Copernicus said the Earth just sweltered through its hottest month on record in August. Scientists said the heat surge is mostly due to human-caused climate change.
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CIRES @cires.colorado.edu · 09/09/2026
GOOD NEWS: the Arctic Report Card will continue under its independent editorial team – led by researchers at CIRES @colorado.edu and @uafairbanks.bsky.social – with new support from @agu.org. cires.colorado.edu/news/2026-ar...
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2026 Arctic Report Card finds critical support from strategic partners
The highly anticipated yearly assessment will continue under its independent editorial team led by CIRES researchers
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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
News: AGU provides critical support for the independent Arctic Report Card and the Report Card has new online home. #Arctic #Climate arcticreportcard.org news.agu.org/press-releas... @drtwilamoon.bsky.social
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Arctic Report Card
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As someone who works w/the Navier-Stokes & Euler eqns all the time, I still have no idea what kind of flows and/or forcings are involved in the 'blowup' examples being discussed in the math community right now. Does anyone here? Are they achievable in the real world? If so, why do we not see them?
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sunset of the summer.
Lake Jean, PA.  The day, the weekend, and the summer are all over.
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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 04/09/2026
The story about the new projection in interesting In 2017, the Boston Public Schools voted to switch to Gall-Peters, a projection that became popular in the 1970s to emphasize the size of Africa BUT Gall-Peters is very unpopular in the world of cartographers because it STRETCHES Africa
Gall peters map
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This has been our go-to projection for years. Easily available in Panoply if you are working with netcdf files.
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Let's talk about the weather and climate changes that preceded the Nepali glacier collapse and landslide. It's well known that Nepal is warming, but we can do better and estimate the changes at the 5200m elevation site where the mass of ice and rock ultimately broke loose. A thread. 🧵🧪
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026
Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/
Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

Image:
Steve Jurvestson (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
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AGU Science Policy @aguscipolicy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨OSTP, on behalf of USGCRP, seeks public comment on proposed amendment that would clarify the interpretation and Federal use of NCA5 results that rely on RCP8.5 Are you a scientist with expertise? Read more and submit a comment by 9/9: spklr.io/63329ErW5S
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United States Global Change Research Program; Availability for Public Comment on the Proposed Amendment to the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5)
OSTP, on behalf of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), announces the availability of a proposed amendment and clarification to the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) for public comment. The proposed amendment addresses the interpretation and Federal use of NCA5 results that...
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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OB Chargn @obchargn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A public health professor is walking through a PARKING LOT and has an epiphany that society doesn’t allow for physical exercise anymore. She decides it must be due to the rise of e-bikes: www.forbes.com/sites/bernad...
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wow.
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have been waiting over 30 years for my phD thesis to be relevant for something! journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
Journal listing for my first paper in 1993. Cited 5 times in 33 years… 🤷
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The last ice was ~6°C colder globally than the 19th Century, and it took 10,000 yrs to warm up. 1.5°C is one quarter of an ice-age in the other direction and has happened in -150 years. While the deglaciation was driven by orbital changes, recent warming is driven by us.
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