Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 17/10/2025There's a lot to look at in last month's map of average sea surface temperature anomalies. The La Niña signature continues to become more prominent. Meanwhile, the absurd record warmth over the North Pacific is still extending all the way from Asia to North America. Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1 🌊 414153
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiDr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 18/09/2025🧪 New National Academies report concludes that rising greenhouse gas levels imperil public health and the 2009 endangerment finding “has stood the test of time.” Game on. Gift link: Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/c...nytimes.comTop Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger 413464
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiRobert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 18/09/2025The Northern Pacific Ocean is currently smashing temperature records. And it is reaching these levels far earlier than the current generation of climate models had expected. A short thread 🧵 12544262
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth Burakowski500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · 04/09/2025We believe women. It is not a hoax, it's so commonplace in science that the National Academies have an entire report on it. Release the Epstein files #resist 500womenscientists.org/updates/2025...500womenscientists.orgRise up — 500 Women ScientistsSexual harassment and abuse (and misogyny, discrimination, assault, and bullying ) are so rampant that there is a whole National Academies of Science report on the topic. Accountability has t... 16422
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 03/09/2025How has climate change shaped your lifetime of heat? Younger people today are experiencing more extremely hot days during their childhood compared to previous generations. Check out the new interactive tool by @climatecentral.org: climatecentral.observablehq.cloud/generational... 613245
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiBob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 02/09/2025The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.sites.google.comDOEresponseSiteOn 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... 211185501
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiAndrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 02/09/2025Our 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.comDOEresponseSiteOn 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 17449222
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiMichael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Just so we're all clear, I've added Judith Curry's 2014 "hiatus" (no additional warming) prediction on this graph showing what's actually happened since: 732879
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiJeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 23/08/2025A long-major heatwave is setting up for Central & NW Canada with temperatures 15-20 degrees C (30F plus) warmer than normal late next week into next weekend. That means widespread 30-35C high temps (85-95F) way up north even near the Tundra. Climate change has made these events more intense/ likely 39348
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiRobert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Sean Duffy, Acting Chief of NASA: "All the climate science ... we’re going to move aside, and all of the science that we do is going to be directed towards exploration ... That’s why we have NASA, to explore, not to do all of these Earth sciences." arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...arstechnica.comNASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agencyNASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however. 124012
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiMauri Pelto @mauri-pelto.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Berg Glacier Lake, Alaska has drained. NASA Earth Observatory shared my earlier observations of filling, and by 8-3-2025 it had drained. landsat.visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=... 061
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiProPublica @propublica.org · 12/08/2025The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What” The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway. (Published April 2024)propublica.orgThe Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”: Climate Change is Already Forcing People From Their HomesThe complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway. 12442651472
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiCovering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 04/08/2025Gain an understanding of climate change basics from renowned scientist @katharinehayhoe.com. Whether you’re new to the climate story or a veteran reporter aiming to refine how you explain it to audiences, this guide is for you.coveringclimatenow.orgClimate Science 101Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe explains the basics of climate change for beginners and those in need of a refresher. 08247
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiKen Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 31/07/2025Climate models have underestimated the departure of high temperature extremes from monthly means. If we assume these model biases persist in future projections, then the climate models are also likely underestimating the magnitude of future high temperature extremes. www.nature.com/articles/s43...nature.comHistorical model biases in monthly high temperature anomalies indicate under-estimation of future temperature extremes - Communications Earth & EnvironmentModels tend to underestimate mean monthly maximum temperature anomalies by 2-3% and extreme anomalies by 11-12% over the period 1980 and 2023, which could lead to temperatures 3 °C to 5 °C higher than... 10264117
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Motherfucking wind farms… 11234703917598
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 26/07/2025Finally an animation - today's visualization addition shows changes in yearly temperature anomalies from 1940 to 2024... Graphic can be downloaded from zacklabe.com/united-state... using ERA5 data. 820670
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiMarshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 26/07/2025If you are having trouble finding National Climate Assessment reports, they are here. www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...realclimate.orgRealClimate: National Climate Assessment linksRealClimate: For some reason, it has become hard to locate the various National Climate Assessments (NCAs) that have been produced by the USGCRP over the decades (and it's pretty hard to find the USGR... 410278
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/07/2025The ruling from the International Court of Justice last week is genuinely a big fucking deal. It makes it a legal obligation for countries to address climate change. Yes, even the ones not signed on to Paris. Yes, even the U.S. More from me & @rishpardikar.bsky.social drilled.media/news/ijc-1drilled.mediaLandmark Ruling Gives Paris Climate Agreement TeethA rare unanimous ruling from the International Court of Justice creates a pathway to hold all governments, even the climate-denying ones, legally liable for climate risk. 528599
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 25/07/2025This is a pretty alarming new study out today (doi.org/10.1126/scia... - read the abstract) and here are some great visuals and highlights from it by @propublica.org: www.propublica.org/article/wate... "Since 2002, 75% of the population lives in 101 countries that have been losing freshwater water"propublica.org“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global ThreatA new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise. 9178111
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiDr. Elizabeth Burakowski @lizloveswinter.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Submit by July 30 to our #AGU25 Applications in Snow Hydrology (H042) session. Confirmed invited speakers include Haejo Kim (Syracuse) and Keith Musselman (CU Boulder). #snow #hydrology 161
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiMichael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 21/07/2025“New Research Shows More Extreme Global Warming Impacts Looming for the Northeast" | Article by @bberwyn.bsky.social for @eos.org: eos.org/articles/new...eos.orgNew Research Shows More Extreme Global Warming Impacts Looming for the Northeast - EosOne new study identifies a 17% increase in the destructive potential of the strongest nor’easters, while another bolsters links between Arctic ice melt and dangerous blizzards. 46928
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 16/07/2025As I say here, “This document was written for the American people, paid for by the taxpayers, and it contains vital information we need to keep ourselves safe in a changing climate, as the disasters that continue to mount demonstrate so tragically and clearly.” More by @borenbears.bsky.social here:apnews.comTrump administration says it won't publish major climate change reports on NASA website as promisedThe Trump administration has made it harder for people, local and state governments to find critical climate change reports. 12516232
Dr. Elizabeth Burakowski @lizloveswinter.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Submit by July 30 to our #AGU25 Applications in Snow Hydrology (H042) session. Confirmed invited speakers include Haejo Kim (Syracuse) and Keith Musselman (CU Boulder). #snow #hydrology 161
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Yeah this is the thing I'm told me and all my students need to uncritically embrace so they can get a job after college 822665
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 14/07/2025This is a great article by Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social on how solar power hit an inflection point and has now become an unstoppable force. A must read. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...newyorker.com4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a MomentIn the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system. 719362
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/07/2025Under Trump, NOAA ran the most recent competition for their highly prestigious postdoc program in climate and global change — but funded no one, wasting huge amounts of applicant and reviewer time. It gets a lot worse. Now current postdocs in the program are going unpaid.nytimes.comRecipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave 11347162
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 08/07/2025I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)science.org‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says 441451832
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiAndrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 07/07/2025this is an excellent discussion of the July 4th Hill Country floods by @travisabc13.bsky.social, ABC13's chief meteorologist and a graduate of our program, @tamuatmo.bsky.social. 39643
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiEmily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science! The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic 17370317
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiJames Dinneen @jamesdinneen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Disappearing snowpack across cold forests of the north could substantially slow their growth, in what researchers say is an overlooked consequence of climate change. 🧪🌍newscientist.comForests' vanishing snow is also bad news for carbon storageThe loss of snow cover in temperate forests is set to slow their growth and reduce their ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere, an overlooked consequence of climate change 065
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiNPR @npr.org · 01/07/2025The White House took down a website hosting the nation's top report on how climate change is affecting the United States.n.prThe White House took down the nation's top climate report. You can still find it hereThe National Climate Assessment is the most influential source of information about climate change in the United States. 9718981174
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiRobert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 01/07/2025The proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line: Total, Climate Research: $0 www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul... 24619380
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiRobert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul... 40865633
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/06/2025ESRI has the interactive NCA atlas here:nca-atlas-nationalclimate.hub.arcgis.comNational Climate Assessment Interactive AtlasThe Interactive Atlas of the 5th National Climate Assessment of the United States provides maps, data, and stories from the 5th Assessment. 38918
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/06/2025Here is the web archive version of NCA5: web.archive.org/web/20250626...web.archive.orgFifth National Climate AssessmentThe Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the sc... 19829
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/06/2025Among the many resources the Global Change Research Program hosted was this interactive atlas of projected changes in relevant thresholds (e.g. hot & cold days, rainfall amounts and more) per degree of warming, showing people how meeting the Paris targets would impact them personally.esri.comA New Climate Atlas for the United StatesMaps from the National Climate Assessment Interactive Atlas provide insight into the latest assessment of climate change in the U.S. 212527
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiKate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 01/07/2025This is theft, plain and simple. They stole this from you. Every deletion, every erasure, every website that goes dark is a crime against the American public 6754311
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/06/2025The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline. The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments. 25891535
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiMichael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · 26/06/2025A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️michaelrlowry.substack.comCritical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly TerminatedU.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts 19523221557
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 25/06/2025Today, Joe Rogan said: “Did you see the WaPo piece? They found that we’re in a cooling period…a very ‘inconvenient’ discovery, but they had to report the data—and kudos to them for doing that.” I'd love to know how WaPo found that cooling period and, even more importantly, where they hid it. 25716177
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiDr. David Miller 🏳️🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Y'all, this past week for science funding lawsuits has been 🔥🔥🔥 ✅ Major recent wins regarding: 1. U of California researchers 2. NSF indirects 3. NIH terminations 4. EPA terminations Plus: 5. Brand new NSF lawsuit (about terminations & slowdown of new awards) 🧵 Let's break it down 415863
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 25/06/2025My challenge to you is to talk about it (more). Talk about climate change. Talk about the importance of the scientific infrastructure in the US. Talk about the implications of these cuts on the economy, our health, public safety, the environment, and what this means for the next generation as well. 830075
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiBob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 25/06/2025They are kicking the National Science Foundation out of their 8-year-old HQ building, with no alternative plan for housing staff, in order to make a gym for Secretary of Housing & Urban Development Scott Turner and his family. 411057
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiMichael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 23/06/2025"Extreme summer weather patterns have tripled since the 1950s" | Great piece in @upenn.edu's #PennToday on our recent @pnas.org article, providing critical context for the extreme heat we're seeing right now in North America and Europe: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/extreme...penntoday.upenn.eduExtreme summer weather patterns have tripled since the 1950s | Penn TodayNew research led by Michael E. Mann links a surge in stalled jet stream events to human-driven climate change, with major implications for future heatwaves, wildfires, and floods. 11298157
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 23/06/2025Today's Climate Shift Index (CSI) is highlighting just how much climate change has made today's heat wave more likely to occur, especially for the warm nighttime temperatures. Follow along with real-time and forecast CSI global maps from @climatecentral.org at csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif... 111949
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiDr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Yikes! “Stuck” summer jet stream patterns responsible for many crazy extremes seen in recent years have increased 3x in 70 years, something “not well captured by current-generation climate models…indicating even greater risk of persistent extreme summer weather events with ongoing warming.” 18239
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 05/06/2025New research: Warming accelerates global drought severity - During the past 5 years (2018–2022), the areas in drought have expanded by 74% on average compared with 1981–2017 #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comWarming accelerates global drought severity - NatureIncreased atmospheric evaporative demand in recent years has increased drought severity by an average of 40% globally across both dry and wet regions, and the trend is likely to continue under future ... 15838
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiKevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth. 16795501
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 23/05/2025Decadal trends in May sea ice thickness across the #Arctic Ocean - red shading corresponds to areas of thinning ice (yes, that's pretty much everywhere) Simulated by PIOMAS; doi.org/10.1175/JCLI... 26419
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth BurakowskiKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/05/2025Would it have killed them to mention the fact that this was due to climate change? @powcanada.bsky.socialpowder.comWhy Whistler's Summer Ski Camps Might Be Over for GoodA nearly 30-year tradition has ended at Canada's largest ski resort. 301145285