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Dr. Elizabeth Burakowski

@lizloveswinter.bsky.social
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climate-snow-winter scientist. University of New Hampshire, USA. Also running, surfing, snowboarding, gardening, cribbage and euchre.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 17/10/2025
There'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 🌊
Global map showing sea surface temperature anomalies in September 2025 relative to 1982 to 2010. Most areas are warmer than average. Red is shown for warmer sea surface temperatures, and blue is shown for colder sea surface temperatures. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1.
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Dr. 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...
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Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The 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 🧵
Time series of monthly Northern Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies from 1850 to August 2025 alongside multi-model expectations of the warming in this area (scenario SSP2-4.5).
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500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We 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...
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Rise up — 500 Women Scientists
Sexual 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...
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 03/09/2025
How 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...
Screenshot for the interactive tool to enter year you were born and where for how has climate change shaped your lifetime of heat? In a warming world, people are experiencing more extremely hot days than they used to.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 02/09/2025
The 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.
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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...
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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.
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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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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Just 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:
https://x.com/MichaelEMann/status/1809277799896871363
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
A 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
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Sean 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...
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NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.
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Mauri Pelto @mauri-pelto.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Berg 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=...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/08/2025
The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What” The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway. (Published April 2024)
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The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”: Climate Change is Already Forcing People From Their Homes
The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 04/08/2025
Gain 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.
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Climate Science 101
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe explains the basics of climate change for beginners and those in need of a refresher.
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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 31/07/2025
Climate 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...
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Historical model biases in monthly high temperature anomalies indicate under-estimation of future temperature extremes - Communications Earth & Environment
Models 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...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 26/07/2025
Finally 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.
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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
If you are having trouble finding National Climate Assessment reports, they are here. www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
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RealClimate: National Climate Assessment links
RealClimate: 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...
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The 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-1
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Landmark Ruling Gives Paris Climate Agreement Teeth
A 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.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 25/07/2025
This 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"
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“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
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Dr. Elizabeth Burakowski @lizloveswinter.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Submit 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
H042 - Applications in Snow Hydrology (AGU25 session)

We invite submissions broadly related to hydrological processes that govern snowpack contributions to streamflow, with potential topics including but not limited to: 
1. Seasonal snowpack partitioning, including sublimation, evapotranspiration, runoff, & soil moisture
2. Precipitation phase and snowmelt (rate, timing, and amount) impacts on streamflow
3. Advancements in understanding of snow-derived streamflow across different scales and under historical and/or future conditions

Primary Convener:
Laurie Huning, California State University Long Beach
Conveners:
Melissa Wrzesien, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Daniel McEvoy, Desert Research Institute
Elizabeth Burakowski, University of New Hampshire
Early Career Convener:
Eunsaem Cho, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Invited Speakers:
Haejo Kim, Syracuse University
and
Keith Musselman, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Michael 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...
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New Research Shows More Extreme Global Warming Impacts Looming for the Northeast - Eos
One 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.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 16/07/2025
As 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:
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Trump administration says it won't publish major climate change reports on NASA website as promised
The Trump administration has made it harder for people, local and state governments to find critical climate change reports.
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Dr. Elizabeth Burakowski @lizloveswinter.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Submit 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
H042 - Applications in Snow Hydrology (AGU25 session)

We invite submissions broadly related to hydrological processes that govern snowpack contributions to streamflow, with potential topics including but not limited to: 
1. Seasonal snowpack partitioning, including sublimation, evapotranspiration, runoff, & soil moisture
2. Precipitation phase and snowmelt (rate, timing, and amount) impacts on streamflow
3. Advancements in understanding of snow-derived streamflow across different scales and under historical and/or future conditions

Primary Convener:
Laurie Huning, California State University Long Beach
Conveners:
Melissa Wrzesien, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Daniel McEvoy, Desert Research Institute
Elizabeth Burakowski, University of New Hampshire
Early Career Convener:
Eunsaem Cho, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Invited Speakers:
Haejo Kim, Syracuse University
and
Keith Musselman, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Yeah this is the thing I'm told me and all my students need to uncritically embrace so they can get a job after college
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This 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-...
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/07/2025
Under 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.
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Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 08/07/2025
I 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)
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‘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
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 07/07/2025
this 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.
“How could this happen?” It’s a question many of us are asking with broken hearts as the death toll continues to mount in the wake of the horrific Texas Hill Country flooding. We want to make sense of this tragedy, and we never want to see it happen again. As a Houston-based meteorologist who was born and raised on the outskirts of the Texas Hill Country and witnessed these types of flash floods first hand, I want to lend my voice and meteorological expertise to help answer some of the questions I’ve been receiving on the meteorology side of this tragedy.
Catastrophic flash floods have always been a part of life in the Texas Hill Country. These naturally-occurring rainstorms that stall out are infrequent but not unprecedented. This is the birthplace of the phrase “Turn around, don’t drown!” with the nickname “Flash Flood Alley.” Due to the hilly terrain, when high amounts of rain fall in a short period of time, the water flows quickly through the creek and river valleys, sometimes with devastating and deadly consequences like we are witnessing on this July 4th holiday weekend. (See also the Blanco River flood in Wimberley on Memorial Day weekend in 2015, the Canyon Lake flood in July 2002, or the Guadalupe River flood in July 1987 for some of the more recent examples.)
Often times these floods strike with little warning in the middle of the night due to the tropical nature of the air and the atmospheric physics at play.
So what happened this time?
Remnant tropical moisture from what was once Tropical Storm Barry is primarily responsible for this flood event, with an assist from upper level moisture peeled off from what was once Hurricane Flossie in the Pacific. A weak circulation in the mid-levels of the atmosphere developed over central Texas within this super-moist airmass to help organize the storms into a low-pressure complex called a “mesoscale convective vortex.” The steering currents were rather slow around this low with a steady feed of moist air called a “l…How difficult is it to predict these flash floods?
When I was studying meteorology at Texas A&M over 20 years ago, I remember being taught that the most difficult thing to predict was how much rain would fall and where that rain would fall. While we have made tremendous progress in “quantitive precipitation forecasts” over the last two decades, this is largely still true today. No meteorologist could have told you with high confidence more than a few hours in advance that *this* much rain would fall in those *exact* locations.
But thanks to a forecasting technique known as “pattern recognition” (which comes with experience and studying past weather patterns) and the guidance offered up by more sophisticated “convection allowing models,” meteorologists already had a sense flash floods were possible on Thursday afternoon (when the National Weather Service issued a Flood Watch), and by Thursday evening they had a sense that something big was potentially brewing. I have attached the “mesoscale precipitation discussion” issued by NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center issued shortly after 6PM CT Thursday to put an extra focus on the dangerous flood ingredients that were coming together over the Hill Country. It is loaded with meteorological jargon, but it’s there for you to read if you so desire. I have also attached the “quantitative precipitation forecasts” (or QPF) from the high resolution “convection allowing models” (or CAMs) that came out Thursday morning. Some of them do show over 10” of rain falling north and west of San Antonio through 7AM on July 4th.
Yet even on Thursday evening, no meteorologist could have accurately predicted with high confidence the specific rain amounts that fell in the precise locations where they fell, and the atmosphere exceeded even the worst projections of the computer models both in coverage and amounts of heavy rain, as is often the case with tropical rain events over Texas.
Did recent staffing cuts and vacancies within the National Weath…I have looked back at the timeline of warnings issued by the National Weather Service along with communications in a National Weather Service Slack channel where NWS/NOAA meteorologists, broadcast media, and emergency managers share information during extreme weather events, and I agree with assessments I’ve seen from other meteorologists that the National Weather Service issued timely warnings as the event unfolded in real-time. The first Flash Flood Warning for Kerr County was issued around 1 a.m., and the first Flash Flood Emergency (highest level of flood warning issued in the most extreme, life-threatening situations) was issued around 4AM, which automatically triggers a “Wireless Emergency Alert” to all cell phones within the warned area (unless users have elected to turn off those alerts). I’m also told by houston’s former NWS Warning Coordination Meteorologist Dan Reilly that flash flood warnings issued hours earlier also contained a “considerable tag” that would’ve also triggered cell phone alerts in the middle of the night where cell service was available.
It certainly didn’t help the situation that the Austin/San Antonio NWS weather forecast office is understaffed by 22% and without a Warning Coordination Meteorologist, but I see no evidence yet that it hurt the situation either with what I know.
What I am not privy to are all the communications the NWS had with emergency managers and local officials in the middle of night outside of the Slack Channel we use to communicate and share information. Therefore, I cannot comment on what was done with the information and warnings pushed out by the National Weather Service, nor do I know how many meteorologists were staffed in the office to work this event.What role did our changing climate have in this flood?
The scientific body of evidence indicates that our warmer atmosphere and oceans increase the likelihood of these extreme precipitation events and the amount of rain that falls when they occur. The physics is pretty simple: Warmer oceans release more moisture into the atmosphere, and warmer air also holds more moisture. This enhances rainfall amounts above and beyond what would happen in a cooler world with cooler oceans.
What about cloud seeding? (Added at 2PM because of all the genuine questions about it.)
Cloud seeding cannot create a storm of this magnitude or size. In fact, cloud seeding cannot even create a single cloud. All it can do is take an existing cloud and enhance the rainfall by up to 20%. Most estimates have the rainfall enhancement in a much lower range. I am unaware of any active cloud seeding operations that occurred on Thursday night, but it is physically impossible for that to have created this weather system. This is a matter of scale. If I blow out a candle with my breath, does that mean I can then go blow out a raging wildfire? It is the same with cloud-seeding. For more, see this excellent report by my ABC colleague Ginger Zee: https://abcnews.go.com/.../ginger-zee-clears-air-cloud...
There are many other questions that remain, like what can be done to protect people from future floods, and what can we do to help now? Hopefully there will be changes made and systems put in place to help protect people in the Hill Country from future flash floods that occur in the middle of the night, and as soon as I have a list compiled of ways to help the flood victims and their families, I will share it here.
For now on this Day of Prayer in Texas, my prayers remain with the missing, the families of the flood victims, the first responders, and those tasked with leading us through the aftermath. 🙏🏻 🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Are 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
A map of the US with the states the republican senators are from marked in red and states the democratic senators are from marked in blue:
Senator Susan Collins (Republican - Maine)
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Senator Lisa Murkowski(Republican - Alaska)
Senator Lindsey Graham(Republican - South Carolina)
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Chris Murphy(Democrat - Connecticut)
Chris Van Hollen(Democrat - Maryland)
Martin Heinrich(Democrat - New Mexico)
Gary Peters(Democrat - Michigan)
Kirsten Gillibrand(Democrat - New York)
Jon Ossoff(Democrat - Georgia)
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James Dinneen @jamesdinneen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Disappearing snowpack across cold forests of the north could substantially slow their growth, in what researchers say is an overlooked consequence of climate change. 🧪🌍
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Forests' vanishing snow is also bad news for carbon storage
The 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
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NPR @npr.org · 01/07/2025
The White House took down a website hosting the nation's top report on how climate change is affecting the United States.
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The White House took down the nation's top climate report. You can still find it here
The National Climate Assessment is the most influential source of information about climate change in the United States.
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line: Total, Climate Research: $0 www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
Excerpt from the proposed 2026 NOAA Budget, showing the total funding for climate research reduced from $220 million per year to $0.
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Proposed 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...
Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/06/2025
ESRI has the interactive NCA atlas here:
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National Climate Assessment Interactive Atlas
The Interactive Atlas of the 5th National Climate Assessment of the United States provides maps, data, and stories from the 5th Assessment.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/06/2025
Here is the web archive version of NCA5: web.archive.org/web/20250626...
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Fifth National Climate Assessment
The 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...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/06/2025
Among 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.
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A New Climate Atlas for the United States
Maps from the National Climate Assessment Interactive Atlas provide insight into the latest assessment of climate change in the U.S.
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This 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
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/06/2025
The 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.
Text from the 1990 global change research act (see link above).
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Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A 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 ⬇️
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Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated
U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 25/06/2025
Today, 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.
A plot of global land-ocean temperature change from 1880 to 2024 from NASA GISS that does not show any recent cooling period.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Y'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
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 25/06/2025
My 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.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 25/06/2025
They 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.
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Michael 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...
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Extreme summer weather patterns have tripled since the 1950s | Penn Today
New 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.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 23/06/2025
Today'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...
Climate shift index for June 23, 2025 across the eastern half of the United States. This is for minimum temperature and there is a level 5 change in likelihood due to climate change for most areas.
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Yikes! “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.”
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
New 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...
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Warming accelerates global drought severity - Nature
Increased 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 ...
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Trump 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.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 23/05/2025
Decadal 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...
Polar stereographic map of Arctic sea ice thickness trends for Mays from 1979 to 2024. There is a long-term thinning of ice in all areas.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/05/2025
Would it have killed them to mention the fact that this was due to climate change? @powcanada.bsky.social
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Why Whistler's Summer Ski Camps Might Be Over for Good
A nearly 30-year tradition has ended at Canada's largest ski resort.
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