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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

June-July2025 temperature rank compared to all June-July periods since 1895.

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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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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 07/05/2025

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

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Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Woo-boy. Four executive orders about coal and the power sector. Do they actually do anything? A quick look:

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 31/03/2025

Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 570,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 970,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,540,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,920,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🧪⚒️🌊

Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between February and May by looking at the decadal average line positions.

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Niel Patel @nielkpatel.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The clear signs of human-induced climate change reached new heights in 2024, which was likely the first calendar year to be more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial era. This is the warmest year in the 175-year observational record. Worth reading this report. wmo.int/publication-...

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State of the Global Climate 2024

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

So its only MARCH and this administration has. 1. Had multiple plane accidents. 2. Measle outbreaks. 3. Redacted Epstein records. 4. Attempt to deport ACTUAL citizens to include NATIVE Americans. AND began the worse economic COLLAPSE in many years. So are you..........

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/02/2025

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

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Open Circuit Podcast @open-circuit.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

As clean energy faces its biggest test yet, @jigarshahdc.bsky.social, @cleangridview.bsky.social, and @stephenlacey.bsky.social are reuniting for their newest project: Open Circuit. 🧵 (1/5)

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Arctic sea ice extent shrinking in mid-winter, reaches lowest area on record for this time of the year.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.

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Brendan Pierpont @brendan.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Faced with constraints on how quickly they can connect to the grid, data centers are looking at direct gas deliveries and on-site generation to meet their power needs. Our inability to grow the grid and connect clean energy is having some pretty significant consequences: heated.world/p/ai-is-guzz...

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AI is guzzling gas

Big Tech is paying for gas plants and pipelines to directly power data centers, threatening global climate goals.

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Jeff Seidman (he/him) @jeffsseidman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This blog post from @aukehoekstra.bsky.social is from June, but I just read it. If you want a bit of (well-evidenced) optimism that ridiculously cheap batteries are coming, and that they will make the energy transition easier (and better) than many of us think, give this a read.

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Batteries: how cheap can they get?

How dirt cheap batteries will completely transform our electricity grid, paving the way for solar and wind and replacing grid reinforcements with grid buffers.

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Evelina Stoikou @evelinastoikou.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The results from BloombergNEF's 2024 lithium-ion battery price survey are out. Lithium-ion battery pack prices dropped 20% from 2023 to a record low of $115 per kilowatt-hour. This is the largest decline observed in our survey since 2017. 🧵⬇️

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