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Dr. Andrea Dutton

@drandreadutton.bsky.social
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Geologist. Obsessed w/ carbonates, isotopes, sea level & climate. Professor at Univ. Wisconsin-Madison. she/her

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 14/08/2026
Really silly to see people grasping at straws against the reality of global climate change by still using examples from July 1936 (or 1976). The reality is increasingly obvious. Graphics are from slides in a presentation of mine, which use NASA/GISS GISTEMPv4 data (and their 1951-1980 baseline).
Screenshot of a slide showing two global maps with temperature anomalies in either July 1936 or July 2026. July 2026 is much warmer than 1936, except for a small region in the central United States during the Dust Bowl.Two maps side-by-side (June 1976 and June 2026) for surface temperature anomalies. It is much warmer globally in 2026 than 1976, which is more isolated for the heat extreme over the UK.
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
About time! www.theclimatebrink.com/p/fixing-one...
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Fixing one of climate’s worst plots
the 1930s were hot over the U.S. Midwest, but not that hot
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 09/06/2026
NSF seems to have stopped making new awards last week. There have been no new awards from any directorate since Weds, June 3. Even with the slow pace of new awards this year, there's been a consistent trickle. Something stopped the flow. grant-witness.us/funding_curv... #NSF 🧪
A line graph titled "Cumulative Number of Awards" tracking National Science Foundation (NSF) award dates from October through September across multiple fiscal years (FY 2021 to FY 2026). The x-axis shows months, and the y-axis shows the number of awards up to 11,000.

Lines for FY 2021 through FY 2024 cluster closely together, steadily climbing over the year to peak between 10,000 and 11,500 awards. The line for FY 2025 is noticeably lower, peaking under 9,000 awards.

The line for the current year, FY 2026 (shown in red), sits drastically lower than all previous years, tracking below 2,000 awards. A vertical line marks "June 3," where a pop-up box displays data for that date: FY 2021: 4,594; FY 2022: 4,983; FY 2023: 4,606; FY 2024: 4,234; FY 2025: 2,615; and FY 2026: 1,471. Past the June 3 vertical line, the red FY 2026 line completely flattens out, stopping abruptly at a dashed vertical line.A close-up, cropped view of the bottom right section of the cumulative awards graph, focusing on the May to June timeline for the current fiscal year. The thick red line representing FY 2026 awards climbs at a slight, steady upward slope throughout May, crosses the solid vertical line marking early June, and then immediately goes completely flat, forming a straight horizontal line that terminates at a vertical dashed line.
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WisDems @wisdems.org · 19/03/2026
Judge Chris Taylor is THE choice for Wisconsin. Be ready to vote on April 7. myvote.wi.gov
APRIL 7 VOTE JUDGE CHRIS TAYLOR 

Headshot of Judge Chris Taylor
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Wisconsin, let’s get out the vote for Chris Taylor for state Supreme Court - elections are this Tues. April 7th. Tell your friends, make a voting plan, and let’s get out there and defend our rights! @wisdems.org
Picture of a person canvassing with a yard sign for Cris Taylor in the background
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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Make sure to join us @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social tonight for the free public lecture by Dr. Andrea Dutton from UWisconsin-Madison titled "Rising Tides and the Rejection of Science: A Future Under Water 7PM tonight in BWC B150 events.uvic.ca/seos/event/1...
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Rising Tides and the Rejection of Science: A Future Under Water
A Lansdowne Lecture from Dr. Andrea Dutton (Department of Geosciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
So pleased to see this announcement honoring Tia and her life's work. Congratulations! news.wisc.edu/tia-nelson-c...
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Tia Nelson, champion of environmental stewardship, to receive honorary degree from UW–Madison
Nelson, who has been instrumental in advancing local, national and global conservation efforts, will be honored on May 8 at the spring commencement ceremony.
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Adrian Luckman @adrianluckman.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf heading for collapse. Monthly average velocities Jan 2025 to Feb 2026 derived from EU Copernicus Programme Sentinel-1 SAR data. Grounding lines in black and yellow from NASA MEaSUREs
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
So, any other news yesterday? Anything important?
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Citizen scientists discover a Great Barrier Reef coral giant ‘like a rolling meadow’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Citizen scientists discover a Great Barrier Reef coral giant ‘like a rolling meadow’
Volunteer group Citizens of the Reef made the find as part of the Great Reef Census
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
@science.org.au @uwmadscience.bsky.social
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🌊🧪I am honored to be the 2026 recipient of the Selby Fellowship, awarded by the Australian Academy of Science. Looking forward to speaking to (& with!) the public about climate change, sea level rise & coral reefs, drawing upon my field work in AU & around the world science.org.au/news-events/...
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Academy fellowships link conservation and climate expertise worldwide | Australian Academy of Science
Three researchers – with work spanning human behaviour, invasive species and ancient climate patterns – will share conservation and climate science across Australia and internationally thanks to prest...
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Here’s mine: not really sure how to interpret it though.
Picture of Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Worth repeating: In 2025, California met 67% or more of its energy needs with clean energy on 90% of days. What state wouldn’t want these bragging rights?
theguardian.com
‘The biggest transformation in a century’: how California remade itself as a clean energy powerhouse
The Golden State’s clean energy use hit new highs in 2025. As the Trump administration abandons US climate initiatives, can California fill the void?
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Wonderful news, wonderful book, written by a wonderful person.
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Alex Robel @iceclimate.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...
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Sinking skyscrapers? As buildings got bigger in Sunny Isles, so did engineering concerns
At least a handful of towers have sunk as much as two to three times more than expected, the Miami Herald found in a months-long analysis of dozens of engineering reports covering nearly every buildin...
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
@desmog.com reviewed US tax records which show Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
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Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
@uwmadscience.bsky.social @uwmadisonls.bsky.social
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiVO...
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🌊 Science in Service: Andrea Dutton on Advocacy & Public Engagement
YouTube video by Targeted Film
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Many thanks to the wonderful Jean Bahr who nominated me for this award. And many thanks to all of you out there who are champions of climate communication. Our job will never be done, but we have strength in numbers and in some really amazingly talented people doing this work.
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I really appreciate the recognition for this work that I find incredibly rewarding, but can also be depressing, challenging, and elicits comments/emails/letters from people who are - let's say - not fans. At least for the moment, I feel both seen and appreciated.
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Some personal news: This week I was awarded the Geological Society of America Public Service award for all my work communicating climate science to the public. I received this beautiful award (they know their audience, geologists love rocks!)
Award made of rocks with plaque reading: "Presented to Andrea Dutton 2025 GSA Public Service Award in honor of Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker"Picture of Andrea Dutton smiling and holding her (heavy) award made of rocks.
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
In a nutshell: there is debate, the 6-9 m number may be too high (but also may not be). Not all field sites agree. Certainly higher than present - how many meters higher depends on some assumptions about GIA parameterization and potential effects of dynamic topography. More work on this forthcoming!
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
See the summary provided in this recent publication: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Warming of +1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets - Communications Earth & Environment
Warming of +1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels is too high for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and even the current climate forcing of +1.2 °C is likely to lead to several meters of sea-level ...
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 16/10/2025
For those interested, I’ll giving a departmental colloquium on “Nine months in the federal assault on climate science” on 10/29 at 11:30am EDT Register here:
rutgers.zoom.us
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: EPS Colloquium 11:30am Oct 29 Robert Kopp Speaking. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Title: Nine months in the federal assault on climate science Abstract: 2025 has witnessed rapid democratic backsliding in the United States, characterized by efforts by the federal executive to consol...
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Southern Ocean evidence for recurring West Antarctic Ice Sheet destabilization during Marine Isotope Stage 11 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Southern Ocean evidence for recurring West Antarctic Ice Sheet destabilization during Marine Isotope Stage 11 - Nature Communications
Recurring deep ocean oxygen minimum events occur in the Pacific Southern Ocean during the warm climate interval Marine Isotope Stage 11. They are linked with perturbed Antarctic Bottom Water formation...
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
🌊🌊JOB ALERT!! Are you an ice sheet modeler looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding? Come join our research team at University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the physical and human dynamics of sea-level rise. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...
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Job ad for postdoctoral research in ice sheet modeling | Andrea Dutton
🌊 🌊 JOB ALERT!! Looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding?? Looking to live in a city that is routinely ranked as one of the best cities to live in across the entire U.S.? Come jo...
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
This is great news - Congratulations to Ángel! Also great to see not one, but TWO UW-Madison people in this year's MacArthur Class of Fellows. (Sébastien Phillipe in Nuclear Engineering being the other one).
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Shaun Marcott @shaunmarcott.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
New paper out by graduate student Andy Jones on California glaciers. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 23/09/2025
In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
EPA orders some scientists to stop publishing research, employees say - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🚨🚨 If I could just summarize 1 sentence from the new National Academy of Sciences study on climate, boldface, flashing red, it would be: "the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused GHGs is beyond scientific dispute." BEYOND SCIENTIFIC DISPUTE 🚨🚨
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Yup- saw that too
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 19/09/2025
apparently the DOE Climate Working Group has registered this website: ClimateWorkingGroup.com. Here it is, full of information just as interesting and relevant as the report itself.
it shows a 404 page not found error
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"The Environmental Defense Fund and the Union of Concerned Scientists have sued DOE over [the group's] formation, claiming the agency violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act in setting up the group." Reporting by @scottpwaldman.bsky.social subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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E&E News: Disbanded DOE climate group vows to continue work
Facing legal challenges, the department dissolved the group whose members wrote a report critical of mainstream climate science.
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Yikes
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 02/09/2025
Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out. Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.
sites.google.com
DOEresponseSite
On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding. In response, over 85 scientists have come together to write a comprehensive review, which is
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 30/08/2025
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/08/2025
This is false.
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Can try this one for the webpage and then click on the report from there: ncar.ucar.edu/who-we-are/s...
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NSF NCAR Strategic Plan 2025-2029 | National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
IPCC projections in the mid-1990s of global sea-level change over the next 30 years were remarkably robust - important for confidence in future projections. The largest disparities were due to underestimated dynamic mass loss of ice sheets agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Evaluating IPCC Projections of Global Sea‐Level Change From the Pre‐Satellite Era
IPCC projections in the mid-1990s of global sea-level change over the next 30 years were remarkably robust The largest disparities between projections and observations were due to underestimated ...
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
„Such censorship of scientists has been attempted by failed governments of the past such as Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and early communist China, always with disastrous consequences for their citizens.“ Watching MAGA-US sleepwalking into disaster. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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The Executive Order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” is Dangerous for America
This EO is an unconstitutional attempt to censor and punish U.S. scientists for publishing science that doesn't fit a political agenda This misleading and false misrepresentation of U.S. scientif...
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Rightwing populists don’t like the results of science (e.g., #globalwarming is caused by burning fossil fuels), so they try to discredit science and scientists. Then they falsely claim there is a lack of public trust in science. They really think they can easily fool you with this nonsense. 🙄
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
“The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday suspended around 30 employees after those workers wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s ability to handle hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather disasters.”
nytimes.com
FEMA Suspends Staff Who Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump
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Jean-Pierre Gattuso @jpgattuso.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
A disaster for ocean and climate research is unfolding before our eyes. #NOAA 🌊 "The White House Office of Management and Budget is pulling back $239 million in funds Congress already provided. The biggest hits fall on climate and ocean research." oceanpolicy.substack.com/p/roundup-un...
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Roundup: Unobligated but Not Unnoticed: OMB Pulls Back NOAA Funds
August 12-26, 2025
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 24/08/2025
NCAR strategic plan mentions climate change zero times. h/t Kevin Trenberth, who also pointed out that there is a unit in NCAR called Climate and Global Dynamics Division d3opzdukpbxlns.cloudfront.net/34fc0287-fec...
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
"Strategic harassment" on researchers playing out here: Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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